Foreigner death tally and deportations 2016 - official figures.

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Foreigner death tally and deportations 2016 - official figures.

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23 February 2017
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The Interior Ministry’s annual report, published yesterday, revealed that 113 foreigners died in Cambodia last year, while 73 others were injured.

The deceased foreigners, who included Chinese, American, Vietnamese, South Korean and UK nationals, succumbed to diseases and traffic accidents, or died by suicide, murder or drowning, the report said.

In addition to foreigner deaths and injuries, the report showed that Cambodia deported 2,998 foreigners in 2016. The figure marked a decrease in deportations from 2015, when 4,224 foreigners were deported.

Most of those deported were living in Cambodia illegally. The report singled out Vietnam as a persistent source of illegal immigration. “Even if we deport foreigners who are in Cambodia illegally, foreigners, especially Vietnamese, continue to live in Cambodia illegally,” it reads.

Last August, a progress report on the ministry’s “foreigner census” program launched in 2014 claimed 76,000 foreign nationals had residency or citizenship documents with “irregularities”.

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that authorities will attempt to better regulate immigration by making data on foreigners easily available electronically.
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Different take on the same subject:
Misbehaving foreigners banned
Pech Sotheary Thursday, 23 February 2017

More than 3,500 foreigners committed immigration offenses last year and more than 800 were banned from returning to Cambodia, the Interior Ministry’s report for 2016 said yesterday.
The report, which also sets directions for 2017, said 322 foreigners were involved in criminal cases and 53 were barred from entering the country.

Immigration offenses included unclear purpose of travel, being on a list of names banned from entering Cambodia, using fake passports and visas and having expired passports.

Crimes included the use of fake US dollars, and smuggling phones, rhino horns and drugs.
Others came to the country after committing economic crimes in China or arrived with a gun magazine in their bag.

Crimes also included falsifying public documents, illegal marriage, illegal drug use and trafficking, use of violence, human trafficking and detention, fraud and cheating, sexual abuse of children and causing traffic accidents.
Others sold pornography, raised money illegally, kidnapped for ransom using technology, ran internet betting or committed transnational crimes.

The report added that 113 foreigners died from disease, traffic accidents, suicide, murders or drowning and 73 foreigners were injured in accidents.

He said: “Meanwhile, immigration police have cooperated with authorities at all levels to conduct research, arrest and expel immigrants from the country amounting to nearly 3,000 people in 2016.”
However, the ministry says that, through the direction for 2017, it will strengthen visa provisions and border passes at the international border gates.

Foreigners who apply to marry Cambodian people would be identified and immigrants would be managed properly.

Crime target data would be checked and illegal foreigners who intend to come to Cambodia would be monitored.
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Re: Foreigner death tally and deportations 2016 - official figures.

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Where could one see the actual report, with names?
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Wouldn't put much credit in any report...weren't there atleast 162 known deaths last year?
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Deaths, arrests and deportations: posting this as a point of interest, but the figures are clearly way off.

Below data were issued by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on January 24 2017.

Deaths:
[The PPP puts the number of foreigner deaths at 113, figure given by the Ministry of the Interior.]
65 foreigners died - The victims belong to 23 different nationalities.

51 cases of heart-attack
9 cases of illness/disease
6 cases of suicide
1 case of old age
3 case of drug-overdose
1 case of drowning
1 case of explosion of a grenade (ផ្ទុះគ្រាប់បែក)
5 cases of traffic accidents
Arrests:
[Obviously not correct. For example, we know for sure that more than 1 foreigner was arrested for drugs in 2016, and that more than 1 Nigerian was arrested. And not a single recorded arrest for sexual abuse of children, unless that is the lone debauchery case.]
83 foreigners were arrested in 19 different cases:
54 Chinese nationals
9 Korean nationals
9 Vietnamese nationals
3 American nationals
1 German national
1 Columbian national
1 Icelandic (អាយឡែ) national
1 Canadian national
1 Nigerian national
1 Irish (អៀកឡង់) national
1 Congolese national
1 British national

Arrested for:
Intentional violence: 5 cases, 5 arrests.
Extortion over internet: 2 cases, 35 arrests.
Gambling over internet: 2 cases, 27 arrests.
Drug trafficking: 1 case, 8 arrests.
Theft: 2 cases, 2 arrests.
Drugs use: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Fraud: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Money laundering: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Debauchery: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Human trafficking: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Rape of a minor: 1 case, 1 arrest.
Deportations:
Immigration police arrested 1247 foreigners belonging to 10 different nationalities (among them 276 women) in 108 raids:
1038 Vietnamese nationals (among them 261 women)
196 Chinese nationals (13 women)
4 Filipino nationals (2 women)
3 Bangladeshi nationals
1 Indian national
1 Polish national
1 Nigerian national
1 Korean national
1 American national
1 Thai national
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