By Sam Sotha As a former refugee who used to live in Thai refugee camp along Cambodian-Thai border in 1979, I am disturbed by an editorial entitled: “Cambodia's deportation of Uighurs is blatant hypocrisy”, published in The Nation on December 23, 2009 and furiously sad that the author may or may not purposely forget the past history of unashamed postulates of moral standards to which Thai’s own behaviour with moral righteousness and accusing Cambodia which has had acrimonious experiences with Thailand on refugee issues for so long. It has been said that Cambodia was quick to send back a group of 20 Uighur asylum seekers who have been illegally crossing into and staying in Cambodia waiting for the approval of the UN High Commission for Refugees. Cambodia is of course acting according to her domestic immigration laws. It is also surprise that such deportation would be compared to the Cambodia’s refusal of the former Thai primer minister, Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra as per Thai governm...