MINORITY VILLAGER WHO FLED TO CAMBODIA, 2002-02-19 (photo)

Blin (R), a teenage minority villager is interviewed through a translator (L) by journalists in his village of Do in Gia Lai province in Vietnam's Central Highlands February 19, 2002. He told reporters he was beaten by Vietnamese border guards after being caught in the border area having spent a month camped out in a Cambodian forest, where he fled last year hoping for better living conditions. Vietnam organised a rare trip to the Central Highlands as part of its effort to refute suggestions that minority people who fled to Cambodia after a crackdown on unrest last year might be harmed if the returned. REUTERS/Rathavary Duong DB/RCS