Six Cambodians sent back from Thailand

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Thai authorities sent six Cambodians through the Chaom Sangam border checkpoint on Friday afternoon after they spent two years in prison for illegally entering the country and illegally logging in Nakhon Ratchasima province, according to border officials and police.


Sab Yoeun, the chief of the Choam Sangam border checkpoint, confirmed that six Cambodians were sent to Oddar Meanchey province through his border gate.


“There were six of them who were freed from a Thai prison. Their relatives came to take them back home on Friday,” he said, declining to comment in detail.


After being released from prison, they were then sent to Trapaing Prey commune police office for education and to sign agreement not to commit the crime again.


Commune police chief Hing Thoeng said the Cambodians were imprisoned for more than two years after they were caught logging in a forest in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province.


“They did the logging on Thai territory and they were arrested and they were imprisoned for over two years, nearly three years. They were arrested on August 19, 2015, and were released on February 9,” he said.


“They were imprisoned in Nakhon Ratchasima. When they were sent to Cambodia, we let them go home after being educated not to go into Thailand because they faced being shot dead or arrested and imprisoned,” he added.


Mr Thoeng said the men were from Battambang province and they entered Thailand through the Chamka Ko corridor.

Six Cambodians sent back from Thailand - Khmer Times