News on Central Highlands Returnees

Reports this week have been quoting the chief of the UNHCR mission in Viet Nam, Vu Anh Son, as saying repatriated ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands have not been mistreated upon their return from Cambodia.

There were speculations that voluntary repatriates were detained one week in Ho Chi Minh City and another week in Pleiku before being allowed to return to their families. In fact, when I talked with these people, they denied the speculations. They said none of them had either been harassed or beaten.