Social,+Religious,+Cultural+Issues


 * RELIGIOUS ISSUES**
 * Persecution of religious groups (Buddhists and Christians)
 * Montagnards (Protestant evangelical Christian group) - complained of beatings, torture and detention of charges of 'reactionary behavior'
 * Several hundred fled into Cambodia
 * VN government demanded for their return
 * Affected foreign relations (USA and EU made official protests about the persecution)