Australia’s $55m refugee resettlement deal with Cambodia has been dealt another crippling blow, with two more refugees deciding to abandon the south-east Asian country and risking a return home. Of the five refugees transferred to Cambodia, three have decided to go home, leaving just two resettled refugees in the country. Australia is still obliged to bear the full $55m cost of the deal – $40m in additional aid and $15.5m in resettlement assistance – regardless of the number of refugees resettled. The latest pair, a married Iranian couple, are understood to have left the country in February. Sok Phal, director of the Interior Ministry’s immigration department, told the Cambodia Daily the pair had voluntarily returned to Iran. “They [are] back already,” he said. “They wanted to return back home. You ask me why, I don’t know.” All of those who have abandoned Cambodia have been found to be genuine refugees, that is they have a “well-founded fear of pe...