Lite Beer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Number of deceased Cambodian migrants returned from Thailand risesBANGKOK: -- Despite the fact that the number of Cambodian migrant workers who crossed to Thailand through the Poipet International Border Checkpoint decreased slightly from 2013 to 2014, the number of migrants who died while working in Thailand appeared to increase, The Cambodia Daily reported, cting a provincial official said this week. Suy Thnthan, a senior coordinator of the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Council overseeing the Poipet checkpoint, said 148 bodies of workers were repatriated through the checkpoint last year, compared to 102 in 2013.This rise occurred although the number of workers crossing the checkpoint to Thailand increased by 3 percent – from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014.Deputy provincial police chief Sith Luos said that generally, about 90 percent of the bodies of migrants are identified and returned to relatives. The other 10 percent are cremated at a local pagoda.Soum Chankea, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, claimed that Cambodian authorities do not perform examinations or autopsies on the bodies returned, and that only about 10 percent of victims’ families receive compensation from the companies that employed them.However, Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said autopsies on workers who die in Thailand are normally carried out at Thai hospitals, adding that he was not sure how often the bodies are re-examined once back in Cambodia, if ever. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/number-deceased-cambodian-migrants-returned-thailand-rises -- Thai PBS 2015-02-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy chef 1 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 deceased??? R.I.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Preferably , it would be handy to arrive at a check point alive , otherwise a HUB could form. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doremifasol Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil B Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Does Thailand or Cambodia collate statistics? How many died on dodgy construction sites? Wonder how many were murdered? And how many supposedly murdered by fellow Cambodians? Apart from autopsies does Thailand and Cambodia have the equivalent of a Coroners Court? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post apetley Posted February 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2015 "......increased by 3 percent-from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014." Does any journalist actually understand the crap they cut and paste? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaPhom Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 "......increased by 3 percent-from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014." Does any journalist actually understand the crap they cut and paste? Initially in the bold it says decreased, later paragraph mistake s increased. Bad proof reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 It's the air pollution that does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Finally, Thailand has found a growth industry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assayer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 "......increased by 3 percent-from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014." Does any journalist actually understand the crap they cut and paste? This increase is more like a 20% decrease in my calculator anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assayer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 "......increased by 3 percent-from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014." Does any journalist actually understand the crap they cut and paste? Initially in the bold it says decreased, later paragraph mistake s increased. Bad proof reading Not only bad proof reading but bad calculating as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djjamie Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) Previously I doubt the records would be accurate as a lot of these migrants were in the country illegally. Since the Junta are a stickler in ensuring the law is adhered to I wonder if these statistics are going up because the migrants are registered now and the true fatality rate is in fact actually being reflected now. Edited February 21, 2015 by djjamie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toknarok Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Just another nail in the 'human trafficking' or 'semi-slave labour' that Thailand's dismal record has reduced this Country to the lowest level that there is a real posibility that sanctions may be applied. Despite lots of bluster and rhetoric it is blatendly apparant that the powers that be care absolutely nothing abou the foreign workers that are trafficked and exploited in this Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roota Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 And how many supposedly murdered by fellow Cambodians? A good fair number. It's probably politically incorrect to say it here, but the migrant worker population from Cambodia and Burma in Thailand appears to account for a level of crime disproportionate to their numbers. Not hard to understand why but, as I say, likely not what some people here want to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salavan Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 they are catching up with the british collateral damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toenail Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Every country has "legal" or illegal immigrants that cross the border willing to do jobs the locals do not want to do for minimum or below minimum wage. But what I see here are the lack of safety standards for the temporary alien workers who are willing to work for 150-200 baht a day carrying bags or buckets of cement on their shoulders climbing 20 or more flights of stairs to make their delivery; stand on bamboo scaffolding that you know the Chinese-Thai boss would not dare step on; or having them work in some sweat shop inhaling poisonous fumes or working around machines without protective eye goggles or gloves. Where is the care for ones safety, well-being despite their nationality? It should be published which companies do not have good safety standards... and I bet the stats of Cambodians or Burmese being killed from unsafe working conditions is a lot higher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chao Lao Beach Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Really Pathetic. This rise occurred although the number of workers crossing the checkpoint to Thailand increased by 3 percent – from 40,985 in 2013 to 35,336 in 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdome Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 So sad, exploitation at its worst. Hopefully, job creation inside Cambodia will increase and make these 'leave alive - come back in coffin' trips unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Thais hate Cambodians and while the feeling is mutual you'll find most Cambodians while most Cambodians want to be Thai and dream of working in Thailand. And 1000s die trying. Poipet in my opinion is still the biggest human trafficking hub in Southeast Asia and even more so since hundreds of thousands were scared into a mass exodus by the coup makers. The only Cambodians that ran back home to get a 4 dollar passport courtesy of the Cambodian government were a small percentage ofillegal workers in the agricultural and fishing industries. That left the remains hundreds of thousands souls to be wilful smuggling candidates willing to pay 3000 baht and up to get smuggled over rough terrain, buildings, water or whatever obstacles stand in the way. Then be packed into the back of a truck like sardines or hiding under floorboards and undercarriages.Yeah and once they make it to the promise land they are managed by greedy Thai bosses that will put them in harms way every minute of their long work day and sometimes cheat them out of their slave wages by nonpayment. Even leave them stranded and left for dead. Is that just like some greedy Thai people that we all have come across working in the service sector? Then after they have been killed they are shipped back in the same chicken wire trucks packed in even tighter than when repatriated alive. Most times burned in the local pagoda and their families never informed. Imagine that... Unimaginable. I will leave you all with a question but your answer might be different. What is the difference between a wishful Cambodian and a wishful foreigner? Nothing! They bought most times meet their deaths trying to find an new life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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