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Viewing cable 06BANGKOK1286, RTG ADVANCES ON HILL TRIBES CITIZENSHIP

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06BANGKOK1286 2006-03-02 07:32 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bangkok
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020732Z Mar 06
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BANGKOK 001286 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV TH
SUBJECT: RTG ADVANCES ON HILL TRIBES CITIZENSHIP 
 
 
1. (SBU) SUMMARY.  On January 2, 2006, the RTG granted Thai 
citizenship or permanent residency to nearly 14,000 
individuals.  Members of hill tribes accounted for 6,678 of 
this number.  This action is part of the MOI,s effort to 
clear the backlog of thousands of applications, and 
accelerate the application process.  While this is a positive 
development, the RTG still has a ways to go toward ensuring 
that those who are entitled to Thai nationality are able to 
fully exercise their rights as citizens. Advocacy groups 
agree that the MOI is making a concerted effort, but note 
that implementation at the district and local level continues 
to be problematic.  Post,s DRL-funded grant to the Hill 
Tribe Citizenship Project continues to play a significant 
role in increasing public awareness and assisting hill tribes 
and RTG officials to remedy this long-standing problem. END 
SUMMARY. 
 
THE NUMBERS 
 
2. (U) On 02 January 2006, the MOI approved the citizenship 
applications of 13,827 persons.  According to the MOI, this 
is the largest number of approvals ever granted at one time. 
The majority of approved applicants were from hill tribes. 
The MOI broke down the approvals as follows:  Highlanders ) 
6,363; Burmese ) 3,175; Vietnamese ) 2,279; Chinese 
(ex-Nationalists and Haw) ) 978; Nepalese ) 704; Tribal 
People ) 287; Tai Lue ) 28; and Malaysian (ex-Communists) 
) 13.  (NOTE:  MOI confirms that the categories Highlander, 
Tribal People, and Tai Lue all represent hill tribe peoples. 
End Note.) 
 
3.  (U) Not all of these applicants received automatic 
citizenship.  The 4,272 primary applicants who have spent 
most of their lives in Thailand received permanent resident 
status as they are considered migrants.  They will be able to 
apply for naturalization after a five-year residency period. 
The Thai-born children and grandchildren of these primary 
applicants (9,555 in total) were granted citizenship 
immediately. 
 
MOI PICKING UP THE PACE 
 
4. (SBU) MOI,s Minority Affairs Section informed Post that 
the large number of approvals was a result of MOI's effort to 
clear the backlog of pending citizenship applications.  MOI 
officials and advocacy groups believe the number of pending 
applications to be approximately 100,000.  While there is 
general agreement that the central government is making an 
honest effort to speed up the process, implementation at the 
provincial and local levels remains inconsistent and 
corruption remains a significant roadblock in certain 
districts.  The complicated process involves moving an 
application back and forth through multiple layers of 
government and police bureaucracy.  The applicant is often 
required to pay bribes to officials at each step in the 
process in order to move their petition forward. 
Nevertheless, thanks to the extra push from government 
authorities the accelerated pace of approvals is expected to 
continue. 
 
5. (U) Post,s DRL-funded Hill Tribe Citizenship Project is 
playing an important role in the process. The project 
develops educational materials for hill tribe villagers 
informing them of their legal rights and works directly with 
villagers and local officials to simplify the process, track 
specific cases, and empower villagers to take full advantage 
of their rights.  Project organizers have created a database 
of villagers and their biographic information to help move 
cases through the system more quickly.  While much work 
remains to be done, the education campaign and continued 
vigilance of the project organizers has led to decreased 
corruption in some localities. 
 
6. (SBU) COMMENT:  Though the backlog of applications is 
still large, there is an attempt by the RTG to speed the 
process and find a solution to this lingering problem. 
Unfortunately, this does not appear to be a true effort at 
streamlining the often corrupt process of moving applications 
forward.  Instead, it is simply a top-down campaign from the 
MOI to make the system work faster.  Nevertheless, though the 
informal costs to applicants may remain high, they (and the 
advocacy groups that support them) are beginning to see signs 
for hope.  At the same time, those awaiting adjudication of 
their applications, remain in a type of stateless limbo. 
They are denied the right to vote, buy land, obtain legal 
employment, or travel freely and, as such; they are 
vulnerable to human traffickers with unscrupulous offers of 
employment. 
 
7. (SBU) Just as we begin to see progress, the highly 
successful DRL-funded grant to the Hill Tribe Citizenship 
Project is running out of funds.  The program is viewed 
favorably not only by hill tribe communities and advocacy 
groups, but also by local officials who have benefited from 
the program's educational activities/materials.  The Hill 
Tribe Citizenship Program is currently seeking additional 
funds to continue its activities and expand its capacity to 
monitor applications as they move through the system. END 
COMMENT 
BOYCE