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Sunday 28 September 2014

Cambodia refugee deal: UNHCR, Amnesty International condemn refugee resettlement arrangement


Scott Morrison toasts the signing of the arrangement with Cambodian interior minister Sar Kheng.
ABC
Scott Morrison toasts the signing of the arrangement with Cambodian interior minister Sar Kheng.
International human rights organisations have rounded on the Federal Government's deal to resettle refugees on Nauru in Cambodia.
Protesters clashed with riot police outside the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh as Immigration Minister Scott Morrison yesterday signeda memorandum of understanding which would allow refugees in detention on Nauru to settle in Cambodia.
The agreement stipulates refugees will only be sent on a voluntary basis, with the number of refugees accepted to be determined by Cambodia, whose interior minister said the government only wanted to take four or five refugees to begin with.
The Australian Government has made a $40 million aid down payment and will also pay for associated costs for housing and educating refugees who go there. Mr Morrison said he does not know the total cost of the arrangement.
In a statement, Mr Morrison welcomed the signing of the deal, saying "those found to be in genuine need of protection will now have the opportunity and support to re-establish their lives free from persecution".
"As a party to the Refugees Convention, Cambodia, while making countless efforts to develop the country after the civil war, is demonstrating its ability and willingness to contribute positively to this humanitarian issue," he said.
But Amnesty International called it "a new low in Australia's deplorable and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers".
"In January the Australian Government condemned Cambodia's human rights record at a UN human rights hearing, but will now relocate vulnerable refugees, possibly including children, to the country," spokesman Rupert Abbott said.

In a statement released after the deal was the signed, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was "deeply concerned" by the precedent the deal sets.
"This is a worrying departure from international norms," commissioner Antonio Guterres said.
"We are seeing record forced displacement globally, with 87 per cent of refugees now being hosted in developing countries. It's crucial that countries do not shift their refugee responsibilities elsewhere.
"International responsibility sharing is the basis on which the whole global refugee system works. I hope that the Australian Government will reconsider its approach."
The UNHCR reiterated its stance that asylum seekers should "benefit from the protection" of the state in which they arrive.
"Refugees are persons who are fleeing persecution or the life-threatening effects of armed conflict," Mr Guterres said.
"They are entitled to better treatment than being shipped from one country to the next."
Mr Morrison responded to criticism from the UN agency in May saying the Government was keeping the UNHCR updated on the progress of negotiations and that discussions to that point had been "positive".
President of Cambodia's Centre for Human Rights, Virak Ou, said the newly-inked deal was "shameful" and "illegal".
"The Australian Government has an obligation to protect refugees and sending them Cambodia's way is not how a responsible country protects refugees," he said.
"The Cambodian school system is rife with corruption ... the access to education here is quite bad. So I don't know what the Australian Government is thinking nor what they expect from this deal."
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy warned "very little" of the money exchanged under the deal will filter down to the refugees.
"It will be pocketed by corrupt government officials," he said.
"I think it is not right on the part of Cambodia to accept this deal, because refugees are not like any ordinary goods that can be exported from one country and imported by another country. They are human beings."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

-Drgunzet- (Communist Vietnamese poster living in the U.S.),

You mentioned, "Vietnamese are saviors and protectors for the Khmer." Oh really?

There were hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese secret agents hiding in Khmer Rouges uniforms during and before the Killing Fields (1975-1979) who ended up killing millions of innocent and well-educated Khmer/Cambodian people including small children. Pol Pot had been toppled by secrete Vietnamese agents in Khmer Rouges uniforms who spoke, read and wrote Khmer language really well and fluently. There were several thousands of real Khmer Rouges soldiers (not killers) who were so busy to fight with the Vietnamese armies in Southern and Eastern Cambodia in order to get Khmer Kampuchea Krom/Southern Cambodia (today called Southern Vietnam) back. Your evil secret Vietcong/Vietnamese agents were busy to kill our innocent Khmer/Cambodian people who were very well educated and some of evil secret Vietcong/Vietnamese agents had robbed many things (like gold, valuable stuff, etc) from Phnom Penh to Vietnam/Srok Yuon during the Killing Fields times.

Pol Pot's China aids have been fallen into the secret Vietnamese agents from Hanoi and everything had been taken by those f**king secret Vietnamese agents from Hanoi.

Now, Pol Pot, his inner circles and his Khmer Rouges solders have been accused as the killers of their Khmer people as the scapegoats instead of the real killers who were the secret Vietnamese/Vietcong agents from Hanoi.

The goals of the Vietnamese master-minded killers (Hanoi leaders and Ho Chi Minh) were to terminated all innocent and very well-educated Khmer people before trying to take the entire country of Cambodia, by renaming the Khmer cities, provinces, town, roads, bridges, and so on.

Today or lately, have you heard some Vietnamese/Yuon folks said that Angkor Wat belongs to Yuon/Vietnam during the arguments (movies on YouTube somewhere), -Drgunzet-?

You need to prove that, communist Vietnamese poster -Drgunzet-.

Did you see that Khmer Rouges trial (KRT) has not been successful for over 20 years because of the Hanoi leaders' controls over Hun Sen and CPP government as the Hanoi's puppets?

Tell me anything that there are so many evidences about the dirty and dangerous games that your evil Yuon/Vietnamese leaders and folks like you who claim that you are "saviors and protectors for the Khmer." So far, you have been enjoying insulting unfortunate, voiceless, innocent Khmer victims and people.

You are so happy to see your evil Vietnamese/Yuon folks who succeed so far by being so smart to kill Khmer people, so smart to cheat and play dirty or dangerous games with Khmer leaders and kings, so smart to steal Khmer territory by encroaching, bringing the illegal Yuon/Vietnamese settlers or immigrants into Khmer territory as a human shield (Hanoi leaders did not care to hurt his own people), and beyond.

Vietnamese poster -Drgunzet-, you need to open your eyes bigger and think carefully before you shoot or post your nonsense comments on here.

Khmer Yeurng