Cambodian students protest over Vietnam migrants PHNOM PENH - About 30 Cambodian students and two opposition politicians marched through Phnom Penh on Friday shouting slogans demanding Vietnam take back illegal immigrants. ``We protest today to ask the Vietnamese government to accept and take back its illegal immigrants from Cambodia,'' student Touch Chenda said during the march to the Vietnamese embassy. The protest came on the anniversary of the 1979 liberation of the capital from the Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese troops and their Cambodian allies.While most Cambodians were thankful for the defeat of the Khmer Rouge, many resented the subsequent decade-long occupation of their country by Vietnamese forces. There are no accurate figures for the number of ethnic Vietnamese people living in Cambodia but the total is thought to be several hundred thousand, many of whom are believed to be without proper immigration documents. The protest broke up after a small group of young men opposed to the students turned up on motorcycles and took away some of their placards, witnesses said. Reuters - January 07, 2000.