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Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority

In February 2001, thousands of people from indigenous minorities, collectively known as Montagnards, held protests in the Vietnamese Central Highlands focusing on a number of grievances, including anger at government confiscation of their ancestral forest homelands, an influx of lowland Vietnamese settlers taking their agricultural land, lack of freedom of worship for the many who … Continue reading Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority →

Asia: refuge!: ethnicity and nationality: refugees in Asia

This report focuses on refugee flows connected with human rights abuses suffered by people because of their ethnic or national identity. When governments or armed opposition groups target people for their ethnicity, everyone in the targeted community is threatened – and there is little they can do to protect themselves. Their very identity, often irrespective … Continue reading Asia: refuge!: ethnicity and nationality: refugees in Asia →