Cambodia: Ensure Montagnards’ Asylum Rights. (New York, February 14, 2010) - Cambodia should provide safe asylum for Montagnards fleeing Vietnam's Central Highlands even after it closes the United Nation's refugee center in Phnom Penh for Montagnards on February 15, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
Ongoing government crackdowns in Vietnam against Montagnard Christians make it imperative for Cambodia not to deny Montagnards their basic right to seek safe asylum, Human Rights Watch said. As a party to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, Cambodia is obligated to protect the rights of all who seek asylum within its borders. Degar-Montagnards: Military Crackdown On Religious Dissidents. November 2, 2010 To enforce attendance of the state-approved church, the Vietnamese government continued military operations directed against the Christian population of Degar Montagnards. The latest developments make a strong case for Vietnam’s renewed inclusion in the list of Countries of Particular Concern by the US Commission on International Religious Freedoms. Below is an article published by BosNewsLife: The Vietnamese government continued a massive military operation Monday, November 1 [2010], involving thousands of armed soldiers, riot police, other security forces and local police to "wipe out" Degar Montagnard Christians in the Central Highlands who refuse to join a state approved church, according to representatives.
Democratic Kampuchea’s Genocide of the Cham. In 2010, diaCRITICS managing editor Julie Thi Underhill wrote the following in-depth historical and photographic essay about the persecutions of the Cambodian Chăm under the Khmer Rouge rule of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
The first essay of its kind, this essay quickly became one of the most-visited pages on diaCRITICS, as it begins to fill an informational vacuum about the Chăm presence in Southeast Asia. Young girl walks by the community center in Svay Khleang, Cambodia.