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Tuesday 2 December 2014

UNHCR Seeks Meeting With Vietnamese Refugees in Cambodia

FILE - A group of Montagnards are seen after they emerged from a dense forest some 70 km (44 miles) northeast of Ban Lung, located in Cambodia's northeastern province of Ratanakiri, on July 22, 2004.
FILE - A group of Montagnards are seen after they emerged from a dense forest some 70 km (44 miles) northeast of Ban Lung, located in Cambodia's northeastern province of Ratanakiri, on July 22, 2004.
Kong Sothanarith December 01, 2014 

U.N. officials are seeking a meeting with Vietnamese Montagnards in northeast Cambodia, but are waiting for a green light from officials in Phnom Penh.  
Spokesman Khieu Sopheak says Cambodia's Ministry of Interior is “considering” a request from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
“There is a proposal from UNHCR. I have just got the proposal last week. We are considering it. There is no decision yet,” says Khieu Sopheak.
A small number of Montagnards have been in hiding in the forest of Ratanakiri province since late October, claiming oppression in Vietnam. They were discovered by Cambodian hill tribe minorities in November.
Chhay Thy, Ratanakiri coordinator for the Cambodian rights group Adhoc, says authorities have already begun searching for the group, raising concerns the Montagnards will be deported before they have a chance to give details of their case to refugee officials.
“We have information that the authorities are enforcing the investigation, talking to people living along the border between Vietnam and Cambodia to search for the groups: one group has eight members and another group has five members,” says Chhay Thy.
Nguon Koern, police chief of Ratanakiri, denies the Montagnards would be immediately deported.
“Now police in our province are taking measures to search for them in the forest because we have gotten information that these people came to live in hiding in the province. But this is informal information. To clear the doubt, I sent my police in search for them in the forest. But so far we have not found them - not even their traces,” says Nguon Koern.
UNHCR officials could not be reached for comment Monday.
The Cambodia Daily reports that Hanoi has asked Cambodia to arrest the Montagnards and return them to Vietnam.
Montagnards fleeing from Vietnam have created political tensions in the past, pitting Cambodia’s U.N. asylum obligations against Vietnamese demands that they be returned.
Montagnards, many of whom are Protestants, have long claimed persecution in Vietnam for religious reasons and for assistance they rendered to U.S. troops during the Vietnam war more than 40 years ago.
In 2000 and 2001, thousands of Montagnards fled to Cambodia. Many were rounded up and returned to Vietnam, though some were eventually given asylum in the U.S. and other Western countries.
This report was produced in collaboration with VOA’s Khmer Service.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are NOT Vietnamese, but they are Montagnard, OK? Reporter needs to correct this article. Also, they are part of Khmer origin or minority who have lived in the land (a part of Cambodian/Khmer territory that Yuon/Vietcong stole and those Khmer/Hill Tribes in that stolen land North Eastern Cambodian). So, they are part of Khmer Empire territory in the past.

Khmer Yeurng

Kmenhwatt said...

Why needs refugees from Australia while we have our own Khmer evictees who needs help more help than refugees from Ausie? Also we have refugees [Motagnard folks ]from Srok yuon who are in desperate needs help? Because of 40 millions dollars bribery right!?

Anonymous said...

@Khmer Yeurng

3 December 2014 12:08 am

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They are NOT Vietnamese, but they are Montagnard, OK?
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They lived in Vietnam and have Vietnam's ID card => they're Vietnamese. Ethnic do not determine nationality.

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Also, they are part of Khmer origin or minority who have lived in the land (a part of Cambodian/Khmer territory that Yuon/Vietcong stole and those Khmer/Hill Tribes in that stolen land North Eastern Cambodian).
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1.Source for your claim these ppl are 'part of Khmer origin or minority who have lived in the land'?

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So, they are part of Khmer Empire territory in the past.
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According to this policy then the entire Cambodian and Laotian are Vietnamese. Say in the past both Laos and Cambodia was parts of Divine Daiviet Empire (Nguyen dynasty)

Imperial territory 1805 made by French

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Map_of_Vietnam_1829.jpg

So stop complaint about Montagnard, Vietnamese or Cambodian.

PS: Vietcong didn't existed in 17,18, 19th century.

Anonymous said...

3 December 2014 1:12 pm,

Don't know what the heck you are talking about. The sources have been written and created by uneducated Vietcong reporters or journalists who actually covered up and manipulated the false reports or fake history of Vietcong/Yuon.

The questions are:

1. You have been brainwashed by your Vietcong or Yuon land thieves and Yuon CPP officials, haven't you?

2. You were born after 1979 (after the Killing Fields) and lived in Cambodia because your parents were illegal settlers, weren't and didn't you?

3. Are you doing illegal business in Cambodia and abroad to save your dirty business to survive and hiding your false story and lies, aren't you?

There are more questions to ask. The way you post your comments here, you sound like the bad Vietcong or Yuon bastard or bitch.

Anonymous said...

@3 December 2014 8:12 pm
Don't know what the heck you are talking about.
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Then read it again, buddy!

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The sources have been written and created by uneducated Vietcong reporters or journalists who actually covered up and manipulated the false reports or fake history of Vietcong/Yuon.
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What are you talking about? The only outer link I provided was the map of Vietnam in 1905 drawn by French! And the Empire included the entire Laos and Cambodia!

Talk about 'fake reports'... oh boy! Where's the 'true' source then?

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1. You have been brainwashed by your Vietcong or Yuon land thieves and Yuon CPP officials, haven't you?
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Interesting question. But I'm not Mien nor living in Cambodia! Yet I lived in South Vietnam! Also I'm not brainwashed, you're brainwashed however

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2. You were born after 1979 (after the Killing Fields) and lived in Cambodia because your parents were illegal settlers, weren't and didn't you?
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Nope!

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3. Are you doing illegal business in Cambodia and abroad to save your dirty business to survive and hiding your false story and lies, aren't you?
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Nope!



Anonymous said...

To the poster @4 December 2014 4:05 am:

I see all the answer. So, the question is, why didn't talk like Yuon/Vietnamese poster? LOL

You are silly enough to be stupid yourself.