There is another group that I cannot find the link. They are a Vets group who have been going into the western Central Highlands with medical supplies for several years. They are a damn fine group. I will try to find the link. They deserve our help.
Kok Ksor and the Montagnards sided with the U.S. in the Vietnam War. Kok Ksor is a Montagnard who escaped from Saigon the day before it fell and has lived in the U.S. since 1975. He heads the South Carolina-based Montagnard Foundation that advocates for Montagnard rights in Vietnam.
Kok Ksor's 18-year-old niece, H'Ngon, was among those the Cambodians forcefully turned over to Vietnamese authorities. They then took her to an undisclosed location where she was repeatedly raped over three days and nights as retaliation for her uncle being a political activist in the USA, though she, herself, had done "nothing." She continues to suffer trauma from the horror.
When Kok Ksor's 80-year-old mother, H'ble Ksor, refused to read a document denouncing her son over Vietnamese TV in May 2001, security forces beat her, breaking three ribs, and threatened to kill her, even though she "never did anything to criticize the Vietnamese government," according to the Montagnard Foundation. She now suffers pain from her injuries, but is forbidden to leave her village to seek medical help.
Similarly, on Friday, January 31, Vietnamese authorities tortured and executed Y-Su Nie with lethal injection. He was arrested last November for being a Christian and land-rights advocate, though no specific words or actions have been cited. In Buonmathout Prison he was tortured by beatings and electric shock and forced to publicly denounce Kok Ksor and Christians before other Montagnard villagers, even though he apparently was never tried in an open court or found guilty of anything.
They handcuffed him on January 30 and told him he "would soon die, but because the Vietnamese government is merciful, we will allow you to see your family one last time." Then they injected him with a lethal poison and released him. When he reached his family, he cried and told them, "The government let me come to see you for a few moments before I die; the police have already injected my body with poison."
He died the next evening, even though he, also, apparently had done "nothing."
This is what is happening in the Highlands.