Montagnards, under UNHCR care in Phnom Penh, June 7th, 2016.
RFA/Yeang Sothearin
More than a dozen Montagnard asylum seekers in Asian country were repatriated to Vietnam on when they didn't qualify for exile standing, and authorities in Phnom Penh say most of the nearly a hundred and sixty alternative Montagnards living in capital town square measure doubtless to fulfill constant fate.
“Thirteen Montagnard asylum-seekers came back voluntarily to Vietnam earlier on,” U.N. diplomatist on Refugees (UNHCR) voice Vivian Tan told RFA’s Khmer Service.
“The members of the cluster had either received negative choices on their asylum applications or had withdrawn their applications before they may be assessed,” she more.
The cluster left Phnom Penh on weekday and crossed into Vietnam on Tues below escort from UNHCR officers, WHO conjointly planned to ascertain back in on the cluster to assess their welfare, Tan said.
“UNHCR escorted them up to the border before Vietnamese officers took over to bring them back to their villages within the Central Highlands,” she said. “We decide to visit them presently as united with the Vietnamese authorities.”
Currently, 156 Montagnards stay in Phnom Penh. whereas the analysis for exile standing has nonetheless to be finished, Tan Sovichea, head of the inside Ministry’s exile department, aforementioned most of these Montagnards would be sent back to Vietnam as they unsuccessful their initial interviews.
The answers provided by the asylum-seekers were tangential to political ill-treatment, that makes up the grounds for granting exile standing, explained Interior Ministry voice Khieu Sopheak.
Vietnam’s Central Highlands square measure home to some thirty tribes of endemic peoples, celebrated conjointly as Montagnards or the Degar. The cluster of Montagnards WHO fled to Phnom Penh comes from the mountainous region of FTO Lai, Dak Lak, and Kon viscus provinces in central Vietnam, that border Rattanakiri and Mondulkiri provinces of Asian country.
The Montagnards living in Phnom Penh square measure among the quite two hundred WHO have fled their country and crossed the border into Asian country seeking facilitate from UNHCR, citing oppression by the Vietnamese government.
Rights teams say the Montagnards, several of whom square measure Christian, are victims of ill-treatment and repression in Vietnam. The Montagnards conjointly backed the U.S. within the Vietnam and a few have suffered repercussions for this.
“Thirteen Montagnard asylum-seekers came back voluntarily to Vietnam earlier on,” U.N. diplomatist on Refugees (UNHCR) voice Vivian Tan told RFA’s Khmer Service.
“The members of the cluster had either received negative choices on their asylum applications or had withdrawn their applications before they may be assessed,” she more.
The cluster left Phnom Penh on weekday and crossed into Vietnam on Tues below escort from UNHCR officers, WHO conjointly planned to ascertain back in on the cluster to assess their welfare, Tan said.
“UNHCR escorted them up to the border before Vietnamese officers took over to bring them back to their villages within the Central Highlands,” she said. “We decide to visit them presently as united with the Vietnamese authorities.”
Currently, 156 Montagnards stay in Phnom Penh. whereas the analysis for exile standing has nonetheless to be finished, Tan Sovichea, head of the inside Ministry’s exile department, aforementioned most of these Montagnards would be sent back to Vietnam as they unsuccessful their initial interviews.
The answers provided by the asylum-seekers were tangential to political ill-treatment, that makes up the grounds for granting exile standing, explained Interior Ministry voice Khieu Sopheak.
Vietnam’s Central Highlands square measure home to some thirty tribes of endemic peoples, celebrated conjointly as Montagnards or the Degar. The cluster of Montagnards WHO fled to Phnom Penh comes from the mountainous region of FTO Lai, Dak Lak, and Kon viscus provinces in central Vietnam, that border Rattanakiri and Mondulkiri provinces of Asian country.
The Montagnards living in Phnom Penh square measure among the quite two hundred WHO have fled their country and crossed the border into Asian country seeking facilitate from UNHCR, citing oppression by the Vietnamese government.
Rights teams say the Montagnards, several of whom square measure Christian, are victims of ill-treatment and repression in Vietnam. The Montagnards conjointly backed the U.S. within the Vietnam and a few have suffered repercussions for this.
