July 16, 2006
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Dr. Jeremy Reynalds
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Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org
Two Montegnard Degar Christians Killed in Prison: Wife Denied Body of Her Dead Husband by Vietnamese Authorities
A Christian man was denied food and water by Vietnamese authorities in Ha Nam prison and tortured to death.
According to a news release from the Montagnard Foundation, Siu Lul, 62, was denied food and water by Vietnamese authorities in Ha Nam prison and tortured to death. He was from the village of Ploi Kueng, Habong commune, Cu Se District, Gia Lai Province and had been incarcerated at the prison in Ha Nam since 2004. On April 24 2006 he died from the effects of torture and lack of water and food.
On the day that Siu Lul died, the Montagnard Foundation stated, his wife did not have money to transport her husband’s body back to her village, so she agreed that he could be buried in Ha Nam. But in May 2006, Siu Lul’s widow asked the Vietnamese authorities how she could retrieve her late husband’s body and return it to her village for a Christian funeral.
But, the authorities told her that she could not bring her husband’s body back to her village until the time for his prison sentence had passed. In this kind of attitude, the Vietnamese authorities really show their hatred toward Degar people.
Another Degar Prisoner Dies from Torture
In another case, a Christian man called Siu Dolel, from Ploi Oi village, Ia Ke commune, Ayun Pa district, Gialai province, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned in Ha Nam on Dec. 22, 2004.
According to our contacts, in May 2006, the prison authorities tortured him again by kicking, boxing and beating him with electric batons until his right and left rib cages were broken. On June 25 June 2006, Vietnamese officials came to his wife’s house and told her that her husband had died in prison and asked her if she wanted to see his body before burial. Unfortunately, his wife did not have money to go see him, and officials then confiscated his identification card from her and left.
Who are the Montagnard Degar People?
The indigenous Montagnard Degar People have suffered decades of persecution by the government of Vietnam. According to the Montagnard Foundation they have experienced confiscation of their ancestral lands, Christian religious repression, torture, killings and imprisonment. In July 2006 the U.S. State Department continued to keep Vietnam on the “watch list” of countries that are the worst violators of religious freedom.
According to the Montagnard Foundation, currently more than 350 Degar prisoners remain in Vietnamese prisons for charges that include standing up for human rights, spreading Christianity or for fleeing to Cambodia.
Montagnard Foundation Asks for Help from International Community
The Montagnard Foundation is asking the international community to immediately demand that Vietnam release all of the estimated 350 Degar prisoners of conscience from Vietnamese prisons before more of them die. These individuals are identified in a Human Rights Watch report available at www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/14/vietna13542.htm
Kok Ksor, President of the Montagnard Foundation, speaking in a news release said, “Unless urgent action is taken it is feared only more and more corpses of our people will be released back to their families.”
The Montagnard Foundation describes itself as “dedicated to the preservation of the Indigenous People of Vietnam's Central Highlands.” For more information go to www.montagnard-foundation.org
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51080
INVASION USA
"U.S. lawmen outgunned along Mexican border
Bad guys have superior firepower, can eavesdrop on communications of American law enforcement"
Posted: July 17, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hundreds of rounds of automatic-weapons fire rained down on South Texas sheriff's deputies and Border Patrol agents from the Mexican side of the border as they investigated a horror story told by two American brothers who fled across the Rio Grande fearing for their lives.
Several Hidalgo County deputies and at least four Border patrol agents were met with a sustained hail of gunfire alternating from the south to the east and lasting nearly 10 minutes, the officers said.
Yet, not a single shot was returned by the deputies or the Border Patrol officers last Wednesday night because they were outmanned and outgunned – a condition increasingly common along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, say law enforcement officials.
"This is one of the reasons that I do not allow my deputies to patrol the riverbanks or levies close to the river," explained Sheriff Lupe Treviño, "because we do know there are drug gangs and human trafficking gangs that will not hesitate to shoot in our direction to get us out of the area.""