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Category: Montagnard

  • UN Calls on Gov’t to Protect Group of Montagnards in Country

    By Aun Pheap and George Wright | November 26, 2014 The U.N.’s refugee agency on Tuesday confirmed that 13 Montagnards have crossed into the country from Vietnam and urged the Cambodian government to refrain from deporting members of the group at the risk of endangering their lives. “UNHCR is aware of 13 Montagnards from Viet…

  • UN’s refugee office in Cambodia shrinks

    The Phnom Penh Post, 08 January 2013 By Abby Seiff  Montagnard hill tribesmen ride in the back of a truck after emerging from dense forest near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in Ratanakkiri province in 2004. Photograph: Reuters Facing financial constraints and a steep decline in asylum seekers to Cambodia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cut…

  • Vietnam’s Two-Front War on Religion

    By Michael Benge July 22, 2012   The Vietnamese regime’s religion is communism, and the Party views all other organized religions as a direct threat to national security and its authoritarian control of the Vietnamese people.  Religious tolerance exists only in theory; Article 70 of Vietnam’s Constitution of 1992 states that citizens “shall enjoy freedom…

  • Human rights report for the first 3 months of 2012 – prepared by Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai

    Hanoi, 14 April 2012 In the first 3 months of 2012, the human rights situation in Vietnam continued to worsen rapidly. After the crackdowns and arrests of 2011, the government of Vietnam, in 2012, continues to persecute, harass, detain and prosecute many religious, democracy and human rights activists. To maintain its absolute power, the Vietnamese…