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In 1992, he came to Greensboro with the clothes on his back and a price on his head. Y Pen Ayun was the last leader of a Montagnard army that carried on a guerrilla war against Vietnam for 20 years after the highlanders' U.S. allies withdrew. It would fall to him to carry out the last order of the war, for the tribesmen to lay down their arms and join him in a new home in exile. Now, half a world away from that cease-fire deep in the jungles of Cambodia, another chapter has closed this week in Greensboro. Y...

Some of us went and fought and bled. Some died. Some stayed home and cried out against our fight. Some, with heads draped in hooded cloaks of shame and fear, went to Canada, most claiming disdain and loathing for that far-off war, not admitting actually succumbing to an inner fear of death or of wounding in a foreign land. We won every major battle, in the tradition of our forefathers at St Mere E’Glise, Normandy, San Juan Hill, and we left our virgin naiveté in those steaming emerald jungles of fear, or in the muddy larvae-laden waters of the lowland...

Last Saturday night brought His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Dynasty and President of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, to Cornell. The Prince, a member of the Vietnamese imperial family gave a lecture, entitled "Revival of Vietnamese Culture: The Nguyen Dynasty," before a crowd of about 50 people. Maria Nguyen '05, vice president of the Cornell Vietnamese Association sang the American national anthem and then played the national anthem of South Vietnam. Aided by PowerPoint slides, Prince Buu Chanh then began his lecture speaking from a podium draped with the American flag...

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The...

Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that...

We have received reports that the Vietnamese Government has brutally repressed Saturday's peaceful prayer rally by Montagnard Christians in the Central Highlands and many have been killed. Reports are ranging from 200-2,000 people killed; however, at this time we have been unable to confirm these reports. At this time the US is trying to gain access to these regions, but the Vietnamese government has shut off the area to outsiders. We will update as we receive new information, but at this time we cannot confirm any information.

VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST JOHN KERRYP.O. Box 246, Kinston, N.C. 28502 www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry. org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2004 U.S. VETERANS & VIETNAMESE UNITE TO OPPOSE JOHN KERRY Contacts: Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry Mike Benge, former Vietnam POW - (703) 698-8256 Ted Sampley, Vietnam veteran - (252) 527-0442 - cell (252) 521-2146 Jerry Kiley, Vietnam Veteran- (845) 947-3058 Vietnamese Americans Against John Kerry Dan Tran, president of the Vietnam Human Rights Project - cell (281) 772-0510 Duc D. Tran, public relations - cell (856) 297-5585 work( 610) 407-8826 Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (V.V.A.J.K.) today announced a national coalition...

Vietnam closes 350-plus churches; provincial leaders jailed or missingNov 13, 2002By Staff HO CHI MINH CITY (BP)--Information has been pouring out of Vietnam about a recent wave of government repression against Montagnard evangelicals in Vietnam's Central Highlands, Compass Direct news service reported Nov. 13. Documents acquired in October by religious and human rights workers in this Southeast Asian country and correspondence received in recent days confirm that by the end of September, 354 of 412 churches had been forcibly disbanded in Dak Lak province alone. By mid-October, about 50 Christian pastors and elders in the province had been arrested...