No sanctuary: ongoing threats to indigenous Montagnards in Vietnam's Central Highlands

For the last five years, the Central Highlands region of Vietnam has periodically erupted with social unrest. Thousands of indigenous minority people, known as Central Highlanders or Montagnards have joined mass demonstrations in the five provinces of the Central Highlands protesting religious repression and widespread confiscation of their ancestral lands, with some advocating self-rule or autonomy. This report details recent and ongoing human rights abuses in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.