The Cambodia Daily
By Aun Pheap | January 5, 2015
Two weeks after a group of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Phnom Penh to apply for refugee status, police said Sunday that they were searching for another five members of the Vietnamese indigenous group who crossed into Ratanakkiri province on Saturday.
O’yadaw district police chief Choup Vannarak said local farmers reported that a group of five Montagnards was hiding in the forest, and that he had tasked his officers with locating them.
“We are not sure if they are really Montagnards, but we deployed some police to search for those people,” Mr. Vannarak said.
More than 30 officers were deployed to the district on Saturday but did not begin searching for the group until Sunday afternoon, said Romash Leut, an ethnic Jarai —one of some 30 hill tribes that make up the Montagnards—living in Paknhai commune.
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