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13 Refugee Reports 1 (1992)

handle is hein.immigration/refgrpt0013 and id is 1 raw text is: Refugee Repu A News Service of the U.S. Committee for RefuIJA 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite XW-0iI PC 20005 (202) 34'507 Volume XII, Number I CAMBODIAN REPATRIATION: PERILS AND PROSPECTS Sadako Ogata, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has called 1992 the year of voluntary repatriation. The return of 370,000 Cambodian refugees and displaced persons in Thai- land is shaping up to be one of the largest, most complex and most costly in UNHCR's history. Based on his trip last Novem- ber to Thailand and Cambodia, Court Robinson examines the perils and the prospects for Cambodian repatriation. The six o'clock movie at the Mongkol Borei video parlor was Rambo. Some shoestring impresario had bought the tape from Thailand, dubbed it in Phnom Penh, and then carried it up to this little town in Cambodia's western frontier. The selection seemed at once bizarre and fitting: people so long at war enjoying their newfound peace by watching a war movie. Signs of war and peace clashed everywhere in Mongkol Bqei. Dozens of new stalls were going up in the marketplace. Mine victims filled the district hospital. UN vehicles rumbled through town, scouting out land for re- turning refugees. Just a few kilometers to the northwest, thousands of internally displaced persons were camped, un- able to go home for fear of mines and banditry. Last October, the four contending factions in Cambodia's 13-year civil war agreed to an ambitious plan for peace, which puts the administration of the country into the hands of the United Nations, pending national elections some time in 1993. In November, Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to Phnom Penh to represent Cambodia's sover- eignty in the interim. But before elections can be held, the peace must be secured, troops disarmed, prisoners of war released, and 370,000 Cambodian refugees displaced in Thailand must have a chance to return and resettle safely. Though the UN-sponsored agreement represents a fundamental shift in Cambodian political prospects, it is still only a peace of paper, as some have called it, and far from secure. As the United Nations gears up for one of the most - January 31, 1992 IN THIS ISSUE: Following a peace agreement last October, plans are now going forward for the repatriation of about 370,000 Cambodians in Thailand. Court Robinson looks at the prob- lems that will have to be met for the program to work successfully ....... 1 * Update U.S. resumes forced return of Hai- tians.................................. 8 IPS ends for Kuwaitis, extended for Lebanese and Lberians ............ 8 Burmese in Thailand threatened with deportation .................. 9 * Recent Developments Asylum backlogs could overload system .............................. 10 1NS v. acarias ............ 12 * Projects and Programs Small town resettlement in Iowa 13 • Job Board ............... 14 * Conference ............ 15 * Correction Notice ...... 15 • Statistics Status of Interdicted Haitians, as of January 1992 .................... 16

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