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OPINION : WHO IS THE REAL HYPOCRITE?

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...

UIGHUR ASYLUM SEEKERS IN PHNOM PENH : AN INSTRUMENT OF WORLD POLITICS.

On Christmas Day the global media has portrayed a suspected terrorist who failed to blow up the Northwest Airline flight number 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. The event has attracted attention of the world from the eve of the New Year’s celebration and prompted the leadership of the superpowers to take simultaneous actions. Then, global TV showed tight security measures at every mayor airports. While watching live coverage of this terrorism event, the fortunate fate of the 278 passengers who boarded this airliner has prompted me to recall the lawful and appropriate action taken last week by the Royal Government in returning 20 Uighur asylum seekers back to China aiming at preventing and fighting terrorism because, there were suspected terrorists and alleged criminals among them. In handling this issue, we strongly believe that, in order to respond to the global unconventional threats of terrorism, the effective law enforcement is one of the best means of fighting it. Besides fightin...