US deports 37 Cambodians, most with criminal records
Some, after spending most of their lives in the US, are being sent to a country they hardly know after running afoul of US law
04 July 2019 - 15:06
Phnom Penh — Thirty-seven Cambodians deported by the US arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday, 32 of them refugees who fled during the rule of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in the 1970s or war that followed their ouster, an aid group said.
Thousands of Cambodian refugees started new lives in the US after fleeing the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-1979 reign of terror, in which up to 2-million people are believed to have been killed or died of overwork and starvation, and the subsequent chaos...
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