July’s elections once again highlighted the discrimination that ethnic Vietnamese people born in Cambodia so often encounter.
Born in Cambodia and fluent in the Khmer language, one woman shares the story of how she and others of Vietnamese ethnicity were shooed away from the polling place. It’s just one more example of how Cambodian society feels about the ethnic Vietnamese, who make up an estimated 5 percent of Cambodia’s population of 15 million.
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Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy greets supporters in Freedom Park, Phnom Penh, in the runup to the recent elections. Photograph: Nicolas Axelrod/Getty Images
