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4 more Australia's refugees agree to resettle in Cambodia


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PHNOM PENH, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Four more Australia's refugees, who are being held in an offshore detention camp in the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru, have agreed to resettle in Cambodia, local media reported Friday, citing a senior Cambodian official.

"Four more refugees -- three Iranians and one Myanmar's Rohingyan minority person -- have voluntarily agreed to resettle in Cambodia," local news website DAP reported, quoting Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Khieu Sopheak as saying.

The spokesman added that a Cambodian delegation would fly to Nauru late this month or early next month to get the details of the new group.

The announcement came just two days after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met with visiting Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to discuss the multi-million-U.S.-dollar refugee resettlement agreement that the two countries signed last September.

After the talks, Sry Thamarong, a spokesman for Hun Sen, told reporters that the two countries vowed to honor the agreement and Cambodia was ready to take in more Australia's refugees.

The first group of four refugees -- three Iranians and one Myanmar's Rohingyan minority man -- arrived in Phnom Penh in June; however, the Myanmar man had recently asked to be sent back to his birth country, saying he wanted to reunite with his family.

source: http://www.globalpost.com/article/6647259/2015/09/11/4-more-australias-refugees-agree-resettle-cambodia

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Four more refugees, well that makes the multi million dollar plan worth while.

Cambodia is sending a delegation to Naru to check on the details of the four, how many in the delegation?

Australia's immigration policies are simply appalling, we can do better than this.

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The only people who qualified for this program were "genuine refugees", ie. those at risk of persecution or harm if they returned to their place of origin ...... so how is it that this Rohingyan suddenly decided to go back home just because he missed his family? Does this mean he was scamming the system all along? Has the situation for Rohingya miraculously improved in the past few weeks, to the point where they are no longer persecuted in Myanmar? I didn't think that the Myanmar government Perhaps even recognised them as citizens - how will he have any kind of valid paperwork to allow him to enter and stay in Myanmar?

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So it is a voluntary program. Gee that's very smart stupid Mr. Abbott.

"The spokesman added that a Cambodian delegation would fly to Nauru late this month or early next month to get the details of the new group." Don't they have email in Cambodia, or do they want a holiday?

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So it is a voluntary program. Gee that's very smart stupid Mr. Abbott.

"The spokesman added that a Cambodian delegation would fly to Nauru late this month or early next month to get the details of the new group." Don't they have email in Cambodia, or do they want a holiday?

Plenty of ozzy taxpayers $ to spend on a holiday.Queensland 9 days,Nauru,1 day.

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