Group of Vietnamese Refugees Leaves for U.S.
CAMBODIA
Fifty of more than 900 ethnic hill tribe refugees from Vietnam departed Cambodia for resettlement in the U.S., in the last stage of a yearlong quest for freedom.
Virtually all of the Montagnards, as the hill people are known, will eventually be resettled in four cities in North Carolina, said Mohammad Alnassery, acting chief of mission for the U.N.-affiliated International Organization for Migration.
The refugees fled to Cambodia in February 2001 after Vietnamese authorities crushed rare anti-government demonstrations in the Central Highlands.
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