Vietnamese Christian escapes to Cambodia, repatriated to death threats09/05/2008
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Y Hning, an ethnic Degar or Montagnard, sought safety in a UN refugee camp; now he is under house arrest and cannot even go to work in his fields.
Spartanburg (AsiaNews) – Persecuted on ethnic and religious grounds, Y Hning (see photo) fled Vietnam for a UN refugee camp in Cambodia but was eventually shipped home. Back in Vietnam police forced his family to pay 100,000 dongs for his release and forced him to give up his Christian faith. Now he is under house arrest and in fear for his life.
Hning, 36, is an ethnic Degar, a minority living in Vietnam central highlands. The US-based Montagnard Foundation is appealing on his behalf to embassies and international agencies to spread the news so that he and his family can be spared further persecution.
In the Foundation’s appeal Y Hning is described as an ethnic Degar and a Christian from Ploi Todrah village, Bar Mah commune, in Gia Lai province, who has experienced persecution because of his ethnic affiliation, which is why he tried to flee the country.
After crossing the border with Cambodia he reached a refugee camp run by the UNHCR on 3 November 2008. Cambodian authorities repatriated him without allowing him to enjoy the protection of the UN agency.
Upon his repatriation the authorities detained him and forced his family to pay 100,000 dongs (only seven or eight dollars but a lot of money for Vietnamese farmers) for his release. Even though they raised the money and paid the fine, he was still placed under house arrest.
On 3 August the family was further required to “donate” a pig, the only animal it had left valued at 1.5 million dongs, for a party by local police.
On 8 August Hning was forced to sign a statement in which he formally renounced Christianity and pledged to stop attending the Degar church.
Under house arrest he cannot work in his family’s fields and received further threats if he dared to flee again.
Spartanburg (AsiaNews) – Persecuted on ethnic and religious grounds, Y Hning (see photo) fled Vietnam for a UN refugee camp in Cambodia but was eventually shipped home. Back in Vietnam police forced his family to pay 100,000 dongs for his release and forced him to give up his Christian faith. Now he is under house arrest and in fear for his life.
Hning, 36, is an ethnic Degar, a minority living in Vietnam central highlands. The US-based Montagnard Foundation is appealing on his behalf to embassies and international agencies to spread the news so that he and his family can be spared further persecution.
In the Foundation’s appeal Y Hning is described as an ethnic Degar and a Christian from Ploi Todrah village, Bar Mah commune, in Gia Lai province, who has experienced persecution because of his ethnic affiliation, which is why he tried to flee the country.
After crossing the border with Cambodia he reached a refugee camp run by the UNHCR on 3 November 2008. Cambodian authorities repatriated him without allowing him to enjoy the protection of the UN agency.
Upon his repatriation the authorities detained him and forced his family to pay 100,000 dongs (only seven or eight dollars but a lot of money for Vietnamese farmers) for his release. Even though they raised the money and paid the fine, he was still placed under house arrest.
On 3 August the family was further required to “donate” a pig, the only animal it had left valued at 1.5 million dongs, for a party by local police.
On 8 August Hning was forced to sign a statement in which he formally renounced Christianity and pledged to stop attending the Degar church.
Under house arrest he cannot work in his family’s fields and received further threats if he dared to flee again.
7 comments:
Montagnard is a very dengerous time bomb to Cambodia, and it is a real headarch too. It can be an potential excuse for Vietnam to invade Cambodia again for it purpose of land expansion.
Our thinktank should now start to think about the solutions for this conundrum.
The guy looks like typical CIA spy.
Fuck the Vietcong racist policy!
The Montagnard people have the same right like all other human being to request the United Nations for help in Cambodia! And the United Nations must set up refugee camp for these Montagnard the same way the United Nations set up refugee camp in Thailand for Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Laos, and Hmong refugee!
The Montagnard people is a human issue and why the fucken United Nations still sitting on their hand and had done nothing to help the Montagnard people?
It is fucken crazy to think that the fucken Vietcong would want to invade Cambodia again because the fucken Vietcong will be sorry if they do!
9:42,
You are absolutely right!
First the Montagnard.
Khmer Krom is next.
the 'Fucken' word always comes from those uneducated Khmers, especially those live in the US, that are the role model for Cambodians.
To 5:48AM
Your great Khmer ancestor has been so fucken civilized for a thousand years to allow the Viet and the Thai to step all over them, to kill them, and take what belong to them (the Khmer people)! And here you are arguing about one simple word which you took it out of context and claimed that it made all Khmer people as uneducated!
Tell me that you are a linguistic who specializes in gorilla language!
Hmm ... that sounds a lot like the UK who allowed the US to step all over them and steal all their lands away from them, not to mention the French who lost land to Canadia, Spain who lost land to Mexico, ....
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