Illegal migrants return home voluntarily from Cambodia

Two hundred Vietnamese people who had illegally crossed the border into Cambodia had returned home voluntarily in 2008 under an agreement between the Vietnamese Government, the Kingdom of Cambodia and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

These people were residents from the central highland province of Gia Lai. They had been provoked and lured by reactionaries to cause political instability in the area.

The UNHCR recently recommended that ethnic people in the Central Highlands should not flee to Cambodia with hopes for asylum and resettlement status in a third country.