SURIN, 21 June 2014 (NNT) – There has been a decrease in the number of Cambodian workers traveling home since last week's exodus of workers left from Thailand. Now, some of the workers have come back to Thailand.
As of June 21, 11,000 Cambodian workers had travelled through Thailand's Chong Jom and Cambodia's O’Smach checkpoints, according to a Cambodian official at the O’Smach checkpoint, as there was a rumor about a worker crackdown in Thailand. However, on June 19, only 316 Cambodian nationals travelled home – a drop off from the peak of departing Cambodians in one day, which was 2,000.
Most of these workers are construction laborers who may stay in Cambodia to cultivate the rice crops during the rainy season and then to return to Thailand.
Thai officials at the Kap Choeng checkpoint in Surin province have set up a service point to facilitate Cambodian workers with legal documents to travel back to Thailand.
Meanwhile, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) have continued to claim that a worker crackdown was just a rumor.
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