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Government stonewalling on relocating refugees?

Refugee advocates have welcomed plans from the United Nations to relocate 36 Montagnard asylum seekers to a third country, but the Cambodian government yesterday remained silent as to why it has so far failed to cooperate. ...

Erin Handley and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-stonewalling-relocating-refugees

Montagnard asylum seeker kills himself

A Montagnard asylum seeker was found dead on Wednesday morning in a Phnom Penh residence provided by the U.N.’s refugee agency, having committed suicide in his room, according to police. ...

Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111572-111572/

Remaining montagnards not refugees, ministry says

Less than a month after the government announced that more than 170 Montagnard asylum seek­ers would have their refugee applications processed, an Interior Min­istry spokesman said on Wednesday that the group had not met the criteria for refugee status and would be returned to Vietnam. ...

Khuon Narim and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/remaining-montagnards-not-refugees-ministry-says-108113/

Gov’t, UNHCR to share refugee responsibilities

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) yesterday said that it would divide between itself and the Cambodian government the duties of processing and potentially relocating the scores of Montagnard asylum seekers whose claims the government finally agreed to hear on Wednesday. ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-unhcr-share-refugee-responsibilities

Life miserable, help us: Montagnard refugees

Eight ethnic Jarai Montagnard Christians who fled alleged persecution in Vietnam and sought refuge in Cambodia are living in poor conditions, one of the refugees told Khmer Times yesterday.  ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19259/life-miserable--help-us--montagnard-refugees/

Groups urge gov’t not to return Montagnards

Eleven international organizations on Thursday condemned Cambodia’s plan to repatriate scores of Montagnards who claim to be fleeing oppression in Vietnam, while the government on Friday reiterated its position that the Montagnards were not legitimate refugees. ...

George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/groups-urge-govt-not-to-return-montagnards-95556/

Montagnards flee R’kiri police said

A group of nine Montagnard asylum seekers hiding out in Ratanakkiri province had a close brush with law enforcement officials yesterday, even as a new group of the Vietnamese ethnic minority crossed the border into Cambodia, a rights group and a villager helping the hiding ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/montagnards-flee-rkiri-police-raid

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