Posted on 01/10/2003 3:38:45 PM PST by Siobhan
Just before Christmas, five members of Vietnam's security forces entered the hill village of Plei JoNing in the central highlands-- searching for Christians.
They rested three Montagnards - Siu Seo, Siu Ai and Nay Glel and took them to their office in Phu Thien town.
"We will see if your God can help you now," they told the prisoners as they crucified them to flagpoles in the figure of they cross.
The "centurions" however, did not spear the Christian Montagnards. Instead they tortured them with an electric cattle prod. The Vietnamese police taunted the victims hanging there - "Where is your Jesus now?" The Montagnard Christians, however, refused to renounce their belief in God and hung there for one day and a night.
This event actually occurred on Dec. 2 2000. It was an event that would escalate into a new phase of persecution in 2002 confronting the indigenous Montagnards. Today in the central highlands of Vietnam brutal martial law is being enforced by the Vietnamese government - while the world remains largely silent - while Western governments (and Japan) grant billions of dollars of aid to Vietnam and discuss trade deals.
Today in Vietnam thousands of soldiers repress Christianity to a degree that prompted several ministers from the European Parliament and members of the Transnational Radical Party to write to Kok Ksor, president of the Montagnard Foundation in the United States. They urged him to have his people inside Vietnam cancel Christmas celebrations in order to prevent further retaliations by the Vietnamese government.
But why is Vietnam so afraid of Christianity?
The communist Party today is standing at a crossroads - facing a new road leading to the wealth of capitalism. The other road however, is the worn path of outdated communist ideology where the prospect of losing power to "religious influence" is too great a risk for the communist elite.
The greatest fear of Vietnam's dictatorial regime is that their monopoly of power will collapse like the Soviet Union. Hanoi calls this great fear "peaceful evolution". It is a word that emerged in Hanoi's vocabulary when the Berlin Wall fell -- and it rippled like a serpent across the ocean. It is why today "Hanoi's bamboo wall of repression" remains.
This past Christmas in 2002 soldiers blared threats to Montagnard Christians using megaphones - "If you celebrate Christmas, we will arrest you." Soldiers even threatened to shoot them on the spot.
What is even more sinister however, is that Western governments and Japan continue to support Vietnam through financial aid and trade agreements. The European Union recently granted millions of dollars of aid to Vietnam - with no strings attached. Last year in the U.S> Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, brought a terrible shame on America's Congress as he prevented the Vietnam Human Rights Act from being voted on in the Senate. (The House of Representatives voted 410-1 in its favor).
On Oct. 29, 2002, three Christina Montegnards were given lethal injections in their prison cells. They died in convulsing spasms. One was a Christian preacher named Y-Het Nie Kdam. The other two are Y-Suon Mlo and Y-Wan Ayun.
Today however, it is the entire Montagnard race that is hanging on the cross facing execution. And Vietnam is not alone in this tyranny but Western governments and Japan who collude with Hanoi's butchers are also shamefully guilty. We shall soon see if these governments and people like Mr. Kerry will - like Pontius Pilate - try to wash their hands of this genocidal crime against the Montagnards.
Scott Johnson is Human Rights Advocate and adviser to the Montagnard Foundation
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Hebrews 9:27
"Where is your Jesus now?" they taunted, well soon, very soon, they will indeed find out. Those Viet communist Christ haters, like the abortionist will one day stand at the foot of the White Throne of Judgement, bend down before the Lord Jesus, the CHRIST and beg for mercy. Mercy that will not come, for they will instead be condemended to eternal suffering and torment.
I just wish fewer of my Roman Catholic and liberal protestant kin were going to be there with them.
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