Refugee helper missing

2 March 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Social development
Montagnards ethnic / United Nation Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. Forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing yesterday to local rights group Adhoc. Heun, who has been assisting groups of Montagnards – indigenous people from Vietnam’s central highlands – seeking refuge in Cambodia in recent months, arranged transport to Phnom Penh on Wednesday for 36 of the asylum seekers in the hope that the UN would be able to help them when they reached the capital. …

 Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
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