PHNOM PENH: The UN refugee agency said yesterday that its officials were departing for Cambodia's remote border with Vietnam to help Montagnards who fled the April unrest in the neighbouring country.
Hundreds of the Christian Montagnards are reportedly hiding in the area but the government has until now refused access to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other groups, fearful of their fate in the malaria-infested jungle.
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