On
October 29, 2002 the Vietnamese Security Forces (CONG AN) executed by lethal
injection in their prison cells 3 Montagnard Christians named:
1. Y-Suon Mlo, from Buon Kuang village in Daklak
province.
2. Y-Het Nie Kdam, from Buon Ea Tieo in Daklak
province.
3. Y-Wan Ayun, Buon Gram village in Daklak province.
These 3 Montagnards Christians were executed for taking part
in peaceful demonstrations last February 2001 and being members of the
Christian religion. Held in prison the
Vietnamese (Cong An) security police tried to force a Vietnamese nurse to
conduct the injections. The nurse refused however, so the Cong An police pushed
her aside and took the drugs and then injected the three Montagnards with an
unknown drug. They died in convulsing spasms within minutes. The date was 20
October 2002.
This
is an example of the brutal persecution the indigenous Montagnards have
suffered ever since the communists took over south Vietnam. In April 2002 Human
Rights Watch stated “The Montagnards have been repressed for Decades”. This
repression ands persecution inside the Central Highlands continues today and
martial law is enforced by thousands of soldiers who patrol the region,
particularly the Cambodian border were our refugees have tried to flee. Over
900 refugees were recently granted asylum in the United States. Vietnam
however, has killed many of these refugees and is doing everything possible to
prevent further refugees from escaping and exposing the extent of human rights
violations occurring inside Vietnam. Hundreds of our indigenous people have
been tortured, beaten and an unknown number of Christians executed. The
Montagnard Foundation asks:
·
the
international community to immediately push to allow human rights monitors into
the central highlands and end the martial law by the Vietnamese government.
·
the
Hanoi government to stop the killings, religious persecution, torture, coercive
sterilizations and confiscation of the Montagnard’s ancestral lands?
·
that
International Donors, the European Union, the United States, the United Nations
to reconsider granting of aid to Vietnam as this will only encourage Vietnam to
continue with its human rights violations.
For more info see: www.montagnard-foundation.org
or Human Rights Watch Report on http://store.yahoo.com/hrwpubs/vietrepofmon.html