They hate you because of me - The Montagnard Foundation, Inc. is reporting the following:
VIETNAMESE POLICE TORTURE AND KILL MONTAGNARD PASTOR AND OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO REFUSE TO FOLLOW THE STATE RECOGNIZED RELIGION BACKGROUND: In 2003 the US State Department estimated in its International Religious Freedom Report that approximately 350,000 ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands were Protestants. As of today Hanoi continues to try to control religion with brutal repression. Human Rights Watch stated on May 28, 2004 “Hundreds of demonstrators were wounded and many were killed on April 10 and 11 on key bridges and roadways leading into Buon Ma Thuot, the provincial capital of Dak Lak, and in commune centers in Gia Lai and Lam Dong provinces. Vietnamese government forces, and civilians acting on their behalf, beat and killed dozens of Montagnards during the demonstrations.” The Montagnard victims below rejected demands by authorities to join the officially recognized Protestant Church.
POLICE TORTURE CHRISTIAN TO DEATH, (SKULL CRACKED) AND ATTEMPT TO FAKE SUICIDE: On May 14, 2004 Vietnamese police went to the village of Plei Blang “3”, commune of Ia To “B-14”, district of Ia Grai, province of Gialai to arrest Puih Hyi age 40 because he was a preacher for Degar Christians who did not want to follow the officially recognized Protestant Church. Puih Hyi was fearful police would torture him so he escaped to the jungle. 14 days later, on May 28, 2004 he went back home because he could not cross the Cambodian border as Vietnamese and Cambodian police sealed the border off and would arrest and possibly kill him.
On May 29, 2004 the Vietnamese police arrested him at his house, handcuffed him and beat him from his house along the way to the police station in the district of Ia Grai. The police asked him where other Degar people have been hiding but he did not know. So the police beat him and tortured him repeatedly until they broke his skull and he died on May 31, 2004 in Ia Grai district. Then the police tore up his shirt, made a rope and hung him like he had committed suicide. At around 8:00 PM on the same day, the police told the family of Puih Hyi to pick up his body to take home for burial. The police told his family that he had hung him self with his own shirt but the family examined the body and found out that his skull was smashed. His family buried Puih Hyi on June 1, 2004. Witnesses who had examined his body verify this information.
ARRESTED, TORTURED: IS HE DEAD OR ALIVE? At approximately 8:00 AM on May 14, 2004 the Vietnamese police arrested a Degar Christian, “Rcom Mrin” age 42, at his village of Plei Khop, commune of Ia To “B-14”, district of Ia Grai, province of Gialai. The reason for his arrest was that he refused to follow the officially recognized Protestant Church. The police handcuffed him and beat him. Blood was coming out of his nose, mouth and ears. He is now imprisoned in the district of Ia Grai and we don’t know if he is alive or dead.
ARRESTED, TORTURED: IS HE DEAD OR ALIVE? On May 22, 2004 the Vietnamese police arrested a Degar Christian, “Rahlan Mrih” age 40, at his village of Plei Hluh, commune of Ia To “B-14”, district of Ia Grai, province of Gialai. The reason for his arrest was also that he refused to follow the officially recognized Protestant Church. The police handcuffed him and beat him along the way to the district of Ia Grai. Blood was also reported coming out of his nose, mouth and his ears. He is imprisoned in the district of Ia Grai and we don’t know if he is alive or dead.
2000 SOLDIERS HUNT FOR REFUGEES: It has been reported to MFI from sources inside Vietnam that the Vietnamese government has sent more than 2,000 troops to the area of the villages of Plei Kte, Plei Hluh, Plei Khop and Plei Kyiom, commune of Ia To “B-14”, district of Ia Grai, province of Gialai in order to hunt the Montagnard Degar Christians hiding in the area.
Several past posts on the situation in Vietnam:
Four Vietnam House Church Christians Sent to Prison.
Estimated 400 Christians Killed in Vietnam over Easter Weekend.
19 Christians Arrested in Vietnam.
Do not fail to remember in prayer our brothers and sisters on this little blue spinning marble to which God, in Christ, came, died, and rose from the grave so that we could have eternal communion with Him.
The Great Separation continues.
