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Från Vietnam/ Cambodia: Forced return to Vietnam will bring mistreatment, arrest
Cambodia: Protect Montagnards Refugees
The Cambodian government should not carry out its threats to imminently return a group of ethnic Montagnards to Vietnam, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says they are refugees with a well-founded fear of persecution if sent back. Sending them back would violate Cambodia's international and domestic legal obligations.
Cambodia's Interior Ministry has wrongly denied the claims of the 29 Montagnard refugees and is failing to cooperate with the UNHCR's efforts to resettle them. The Cambodian government has not carried out a joint review process under which the UNHCR was to join a review of the government's first-instance rejection decision. Cambodia then refused a UNHCR offer to relocate the refugees to a third country.
"Under no circumstances should Cambodia force these refugees back to Vietnam, where they would face severe persecution on political and religious grounds," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director. "If the government forces them back to Vietnam, Cambodia's reputation as a regional leader in protecting the rights of refugees will be left in tatters."
Members of the group reported receiving threats that they would be imprisoned if they ever tried to flee abroad so now they have great concerns about what sort of reception they will receive if returned to Vietnam.
One Montagnard in Phnom Penh who was imprisoned in Vietnam before fleeing to Cambodia told Human Rights Watch his fear of being returned: "They will not let me live in peace, they will arrest me, and they will do even more to me than they did before. They will say good words to try to convince people to go back. But when they go back they will be arrested. I know because I was in jail already."
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