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UN refugee officials accompany Vietnamese returnees home from Cambodia

In what they called "an unprecedented monitoring visit" in Viet Nam, United Nations refugee officials have accompanied a group of returning Montagnards from Cambodia to the homes which they fled over the past year, claiming religious persecution and land disputes.

Viet Nam: repatriated Montagnards seem well and in good spirits – UN

The first Montagnard people repatriated to Viet Nam from Cambodia earlier this year under an agreement with the United Nations refugee agency seem to be faring well despite concerns raised by human rights groups, the agency reported today after on-site visits to villages in the Southeast Asian country's Central Highlands.

UN agency marks 30th anniversary of fall of Saigon with refugee success story

On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the United Nations refugee agency today highlighted the success story of one of its veteran alumni, a 6-year-old Vietnamese boy who fled in his pyjamas aboard a dangerously overcrowded boat and now works as a doctor improving childbirth practices on the Tibetan plateau.

First Vietnamese Montagnards return from Cambodia under UN refugee accord

The first Montagnard people to be repatriated to Viet Nam from Cambodia under a new agreement with the United Nations refugee agency returned home today, launching an effort to find a solution for more than 700 Vietnamese who fled their country over the past year, claiming religious persecution and land disputes.