The National Committee for Counter-Trafficking yesterday called a human trafficking report by the US government, placing the Kingdom on its Tier 2 Watch List, politically motivated. On June 20, the US State Department said in its report that despite significant efforts in curbing human trafficking, the government did not do enough.

 

“The government of Cambodia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so,” the report said. “In several high-profile cases, the government used anti-trafficking legislation and law enforcement resources to target political opposition figures and other non-traffickers attempting to document the country’s trafficking circumstances,” it added.

 

NCCT vice chairman Chou Bun Eng told reporters after an annual meeting yesterday that the US State Department should not have considered the former opposition party when evaluating the government’s progress in curbing human trafficking. “The US sometimes presses the Cambodian government and orders us to do this and that,” Ms Bun Eng said.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50626677/ncct-slams-us-report-on-human-trafficking/

Dem pesky farang again