Sar Kheng Attacks Police Excuses in Scam Trafficking

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THMA DA COMMUNE, Pursat — Rows of shabby worker compounds in the remote Phnom Samkos mountains at the Thai border are still locked up. Large sliding metal panels close off access to more than a dozen of four- to six-story buildings where clothes are hanging out to dry at many windows.

 

The road outside is quiet in the afternoon, as street vendors explain that as far as they know, the foreign workers inside are not allowed to come out.

The talk of confined workers continues in the tiny border town, but a new notice has been posted on one barbed-wire-topped wall: All foreigners must have valid passports and documentation.

 

Two months of a police “crackdown” on Cambodia’s scourge of human trafficking — workers tricked into coming to the country, then confined, bought and sold, and forced to work under the threat of violence — have at-times cast the enslavement as a matter of immigration status.

 

 

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