Montagnards wary as deportation rumours circulate
On 14 June, at about 11:30am, several officers from the refugee department visited Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district to photograph and take names of some of those residing at a guesthouse where about 100 Montagnards have been staying with support from the UN refugee agency. Most of the Montagnards – a predominantly Christian ethnic group from Vietnam’s central highlands – have registered as asylum seekers with the Ministry of Immigration’s refugee department, and say they face political and religious persecution at the hands of Vietnamese Authorities.
