Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Cambodia closes centre for Vietnam Montagnard refugees

15 February 2011
By Guy Delauney
BBC News, Phnom Penh


A United Nations refugee centre in Cambodia is closing after a government order to stop operating.

The centre had taken in indigenous Montagnard people from neighbouring Vietnam.

hey are mostly evangelical Christians who claim they have been persecuted because of their beliefs.

Human rights organisations have urged Cambodia to stand by its commitment to the United Nations convention on refugees.

There have been mixed messages from the government. It had said asylum-seekers from Vietnam would be turned back.

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