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### Viewing cable 06PHNOMPENH413, HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CAMBODIA'S NORTHWEST

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06PHNOMPENH413 | 2006-03-02 08:32 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Phnom Penh

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    VZCZCXRO4736
    PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM
    DE RUEHPF #0413/01 0610832
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 020832Z MAR 06
    FM AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6156
    INFO RUEHZS/ASEAN COLLECTIVE
    RHHMUNA/HQ USPACOM
    RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 1332

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 PHNOM PENH 000413

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS
    SENSITIVE

    FOR G/TIP, EAP/MLS; GENEVA FOR RMA

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PHUM PREL KWMN CB
    SUBJECT: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CAMBODIA'S NORTHWEST

    ¶1.  (U) Summary:  A four-day trip to the northwestern
    provinces of Cambodia revealed a decline in human
    trafficking due to RGC-NGO cooperation and increased effort
    to combat the problem.  However, mistrust between NGOs and
    the police hampers anti-trafficking efforts in certain
    areas.  Poverty continues to push people into prostitution
    and blind migration, conditions that render people
    vulnerable to becoming victims of trafficking.  End Summary.

    ¶2.  (U) Poloff and Pol/Econ FSNs traveled to Cambodia's
    northwestern regions of Battambang, Pailin, and Banteay
    Meanchey's Poipet from February 13-16 to assess the human
    trafficking situation in the area.  Emboffs met with
    provincial deputy governors and other government officials,
    law enforcement authorities, and NGO workers, and visited
    the shelters for vulnerable children and victims of
    trafficking.  Emboffs also conducted the night tour of the
    red light areas in the city of Battambang, along Pailin's
    border with Thailand, and in Poipet.

    Battambang
    -----------

    ¶3.  (U) Human trafficking in the province is primarily for
    sexual exploitation.  Victims of trafficking are found in a
    variety of business establishments and sexual outlets, such
    as brothels, karaoke bars, or massage clubs, working as
    direct and indirect sex workers.  Some victims were sold
    directly by their parents due to the family's economic
    situation; others were deceived or lured with promises of
    employment.  In the latter case, victims accrued a
    significant debt and were forced to work as prostitutes to
    repay the debt.  Although no statistics are available, NGO
    workers believe that most sex workers started out as victims
    of trafficking and only become voluntary over time.

    ¶4.  (U) Deputy Governor Sean Sothorng reported that human
    trafficking is not a serious problem in the province due to
    active police investigations and the cooperation from non-
    governmental organizations on law enforcement.  Available
    statistics, however, are too limited to support or reject
    any notion of trafficking trends.  The anti-trafficking
    police reported three cases during the year (in 2004 there
    were five cases).  ADHOC and LICADHO reported 10 cases of
    human trafficking, including cross-border trafficking to
    Malaysia and in-country trafficking for sexual exploitation,
    during 2005 (an increase compared to previous year, when the
    legal advocacy group, Protection for Juvenile Justice (PJJ),
    reportedly worked on only two cases).

    ¶5.  (SBU) NGO workers who interface with police on anti-
    trafficking efforts characterized the situation as one of
    mistrust.  ADHOC, LICADHO, and PJJ staff members regard the
    anti-trafficking police with apprehension, claiming that
    some police inform pimps when they receive complaints from
    NGOs.  NGO workers say that they are able to rescue victims,
    but the police seldom arrest the traffickers, who manage to
    escape just before the police raid.  (Comment:  We have
    heard similar complaints about the police in Siem Reap.  End
    Comment.)

    ¶6.  (U) Capacity building and training programs are not yet
    available to the majority of anti-TIP police in Battambang.
    According to Chan Nareth, Deputy Chief of the Battambang
    anti-TIP unit, there are 19 police officers in his unit but
    only a few officers have received training.  He added that
    it is difficult to tackle human trafficking, since most of
    those engaged in the sex industry are doing so voluntarily.

    Pailin
    ------

    ¶7.  (U) Pailin is a source, transit and destination point
    for human trafficking.  Some victims are trafficked from
    other provinces into Pailin's sex industry, while others
    have been transported to Poipet's border via Pailin to
    circumvent law enforcement.  Despite the existence of the
    problem, there is general agreement among interlocutors that
    the situation is not serious.  According to the anti-TIP
    working group, which comprises NGOs, the Department of
    Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (DoSVY),
    and the Department of Women's Affairs (DoWA), there were
    five cases of trafficking during 2005.  However, the group
    believes that there likely are other cases that go
    unreported, or where anti-trafficking efforts were not done
    in a timely manner.

    ¶8.  (SBU) At ADHOC's initiative, an anti-trafficking working

    PHNOM PENH 00000413  002 OF 003

    group, comprising NGOs such as ADHOC, AFESIP, and the human
    rights group VIGILENCE, and government agencies sQ as
    DoSVY and DoWA, was created and began operations in late
    2004 to combat human trafficking.  Respondents from both the
    NGO community and the government agree there exists good
    coordintion and cooperation to resolve cases as they arise.
    Unfortunately, the police are not part of this effort; and
    as in Battambang, mistrust of the police is a problem.
    Members of the working group agreed that getting a timely
    response from the police is difficult, and sometimes
    intervention from the municipal governor is necessary.

    ¶9.  (U) Situated to the west of Battambang province and
    along the Thai border, Pailin is one of the entry points to
    Thailand.  Two casinos have recently been built to the serve
    Thai clients who cross the border to gamble.  A number of
    karaoke parlors and brothels exist in Pailin town and along
    the border, leading to some respondents' concerns that these
    establishments will serve as a hub for trafficking, given
    Pailin's geographic location and economic conditions.

    Banteay Meanchey and Poipet
    ---------------------------

    ¶10.  (U) Trafficking for labor purposes is the most
    prominent form of trafficking in Banteay Meanchey and
    Poipet, the major crossing point to Thailand.  Sex
    trafficking is also an issue, albeit a declining problem,
    according to local authorities.

    ¶11.  (U) A mobile team, consisting of NGOs, provincial
    police, DoSVY and the Border Relations Office (comprised of
    border police and the Cambodian military), was set up in
    Poipet in 2001 to monitor the deportation of Cambodian
    illegal migrants from Thailand, as well as identify victims
    of trafficking.  The group patrols the border area,
    interviews possible victims of trafficking, and refers them
    to appropriate care.  The Cambodian Children and Handicap
    Development Organization (CCHDO), a member of the mobile
    team, reported the deportation of approximately 90,000
    Cambodian migrants from Thailand in 2005.

    ¶12.  (U) The Transit Center, managed by staff of the DoSVY
    and financed by IOM, accepts victims identified and
    repatriated by the Thai authorities, as well as those
    deported from Thailand and identified by the mobile team.
    The TC manager reported that 98 trafficked victims were
    identified and repatriated by Thai authorities, and 88 were
    identified and referred by the mobile team in 2005.  Most of
    the identified victims of trafficking were children under
    the age of 18 years who went to Thailand to beg, sell
    flowers, and work as baby-sitters.  A number of shelters are
    available in the province to provide protective care to
    child victims of trafficking.

    ¶13.  (U) Most victims of sex trafficking become victimized
    through deception and debt bondage.  Mr. Kouch Theam, Deputy
    Chief of the Banteay Meanchey anti-TIP police unit, believes
    that roughly 70 percent of sex workers are either underage
    or in debt bondage to the pimps, which makes them victims of
    trafficking.  However, there were only three cases of
    domestic trafficking for sexual exploitation that were
    recorded in 2005.  The unit also reported six cases of cross-
    border trafficking to Thailand.  Kouch Theam added that
    human trafficking incidences had largely decreased, from 60
    cases a year to only nine cases in 2005.

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    ¶14.  (SBU) Emboffs visited the red-light areas in the
    northwestern provinces, posing as customers looking for
    young girls.  Emboffs visited several brothels in
    Battambang, two (the only ones) in Pailin's border area, and
    about 15 in Poipet.  These brothels are small-scale
    businesses, with only several women on the premises who
    provide service.  There were no obviously underage
    prostitutes, although it is difficult to speak to the issue
    of debt bondage for these workers.

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    ¶15.  (U) Our meetings and conversations with government
    officials and NGO workers suggest that trafficking is a less
    worrisome issue than expected.  Poverty remains the main
    factor fueling human trafficking.  In spite of NGO
    prevention programs to raise people's awareness of the

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    dangers of trafficking, people often find themselves with no
    choice but to sell their daughter to pay off family debts,
    or risk blind migration to search for better economic
    opportunity.  The creation of the anti-trafficking working
    group in Pailin comprised of NGOs and government officials
    is a useful model to fight trafficking, but needs to include
    law enforcement if it is truly to be effective.

    MUSSOMELI

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