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• Intersection of vulnerabilities for simultaneously ethnic and religious minorities in Vietnam

  October 22, 2015

  

  Prepared for the conference Defending Freedom of Religion or Belief (for minorities) in Asia in European Parliament on 21 October 2015 Vu Quoc Dung (VETO! Human Rights Defenders‘ Network) Unconscious Hmong believers during a raid in Cao Bang province in November 2013 Vietnam is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country in South East Asia with a population of about 90 million. The vast majority, about 86% of the population (77 million) are ethnic Kinh. The remaining 13 million belong to 53 ethnic minority groups ranging from hundreds to a million people in each group. Large ethnic groups with populations of over one million include the Mường, Tày, Thái, Khmer and Hmong.... Read more »

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