ICC Note:

Roughly 50 Montagnards, among whom most are Christian, have fled from Cambodia to Thailand for fear of being repatriated to Vietnam. The Montagnard people fought with the US during the Vietnam War and were Christianized by missionaries. Since the war, they have experienced severe persecution as a result of their faith and for fighting alongside American troops. Now, many are trying to flee persecution in Vietnam but are receiving little help. Many of their applications for asylum are rejected and they are being forced to return to the place they fled.

4/4/2017 Vietnam (RFA) – Some 50 Montagnard asylum seekers have fled Cambodia to Thailand in recent weeks amid fears of forced repatriation to Vietnam, where they complain of discrimination and persecution at the hands of local authorities, a nongovernmental organization that monitors hill tribes said Monday.

Grace Bui, a volunteer with the U.S.-based rights group Montagnards Assistance Project, told RFA’s Vietnamese Service that with the latest arrival of asylum seekers from Cambodia, the number of Montagnards based in Bang Yai, in central Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, had reached 250.

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