Ethnic Montagnards pose for a photo in Ratanakkiri province in December before being deported by authorities. ADHOC
Four of the 36 Jarai Montagnards deported last month have “disappeared” from their village in Vietnam’s central highlands, prompting fears among villagers that they may have been detained by the authorities.
The group of 36 Montagnards was deported on the night of February 24 after attempting to travel from Ratanakkiri to Phnom Penh in order to seek asylum.
Thirteen other Montagnards from Vietnam remain in hiding in the province, and reports from local villagers suggest their condition continues to worsen.
An ethnic Jarai, who has been assisting the Montagnards and requested anonymity, said that he did not know if the four missing Jarais had been detained.
“We contacted our network in Vietnam, and they said that the four have disappeared,” he said.
“We do not know whether they were arrested like they were before. But other people [in the same group] have been summonsed for questioning by the Vietnamese authorities about their attempt to escape to Cambodia,” he added.
A spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy could not be reached yesterday.
The four Montagnards, all male, were identified as Keupak Hamann, Ro Mos Hann, Sev Kvet and Zar.
General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that if the Vietnamese had detained the four, it was “their business”, adding that they had been deported as illegal immigrants.
“It’s not only these 36 people,” he said. “We have sent back hundreds or even thousands of illegal Vietnamese people.”
Villagers in Ratanakkiri province yesterday told the Post that the situation for 13 other Montagnards hiding from the authorities, who have deployed armed security forces and dogs in their search for the asylum seekers, was growing worse, as food and water supplies were dwindling.
Wan-Hea Lee, country director of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), yesterday said that it had no reliable information about the missing Montagnards.
“The condition of all the Montagnards while in the forests was a concern from the start, and naturally becomes more worrying with the passage of time. A speedy solution is urgently needed,” she added.
In Phnom Penh, the Interior Ministry’s refugee department announced that 13 Montagnards who were escorted to the capital by UN monitors in December had officially been recognised as refugees after they were initially approved earlier this month.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY DANIEL PYE
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Read the article: "“We contacted our network in Vietnam, and they said that the four have disappeared,” he said.
Khmer folks have a habit of making up news to make the Vietnamese to look bad.
This week, this blogspot posted a news Vietnam dumped 10 tons of toxic cigarette butts into Cambodia as fertilizer. All I saw was a Khmer standing next to piles of bags and massive number cigarette butts littered on the ground. I googled for the original source of the news and found sources in Phnom Penh Post, and Bangkok News:
A Khmer local was duped to transport spent toxic cigarette butts from Ukraine through Shihanoukvile to Siem Reap. It had nothing to do with Vietnam.
http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2015/03/mp-um-sam-complains-that-10-tons-of.html
In the past, Khmer forums complained about Vietnamese market in Cambodia. Upon verifying the news, people found out the Vietnamese market is in Vietnam. The picture was a lie.
Other time, Khmer complained about Vietnamese building a temple in Bokor. But a close-up picture of the same temple showed Chinese dragons, style and Chinese writings.
Khmer complains about Vietnamese worshiper at Bokor mountain. When they sent a group to check out, they found no Vietnamese, but they claimed they found Vietnamese materials there.
Khmer race is desperate and will be finished. Horrible things keep happening to Khmer people. There is no way the Khmer race can survive in the world. They will be squeezed out by other superior races.
Other races will slowly buy out Cambodia and squeeze Khmer race into smaller and smaller lots. Remember how the Americans squeezed the native Americans into resettlement area? Do you know about the Jewish squeezed the local Arabs and Palestinians in Israel? That same process is happening in Cambodia against the Khmer race.
God is punishing Khmer race for being liars and evil murderers.
-Drgunzet-
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