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PERSECUTION OF MONTAGNARD CHRISTIANS IN VIETNAM
Virtuosity ^ | Tue, 7 Jan 2003 01:48:37 EST | Scott Johnson

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 The other road however, is the worn path of outdated communist ideology where the prospect of losing power to "religious influence" is too great a risk for the communist elite.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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: catholiclist; christianpersecutio; christians; communists; persecution; vietnam
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Vietnam continues to persecute Christians, both Protestant and Catholic.
1 posted on 01/10/2003 3:38:45 PM PST by Siobhan
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2 posted on 01/10/2003 3:41:58 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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3 posted on 01/10/2003 3:42:31 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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This is what Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda and Jerry Rubin marched for.
4 posted on 01/10/2003 3:43:49 PM PST by Commander8
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5 posted on 01/10/2003 3:44:53 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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6 posted on 01/10/2003 3:45:02 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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http://www.montagnards.org/
7 posted on 01/10/2003 3:51:01 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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8 posted on 01/10/2003 3:53:21 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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9 posted on 01/10/2003 3:57:04 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God)
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It is important that we pray and that we call Congress about the Vietnamese persecution of Christians.
10 posted on 01/10/2003 4:03:35 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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To: RnMomof7
I've been busy holding the attention of our FR Constitutional-Right-to-Narcotics pals, RnM. While those debates have been going on, have you noticed the air clearing in your own threads? ;-)

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Thank you for this! Something to be serious about.
11 posted on 01/10/2003 4:03:49 PM PST by unspun ("Constitutional right to own ricin, C4, smallpox & plutonium." - Libertotalitarian)
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To: Siobhan
Remember the prisoners as if chained with them--those who are mistreated--since you yourselves are in the body. Hebrews 13:3
12 posted on 01/10/2003 4:20:33 PM PST by Cleburne
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To: Siobhan
Another less than honorable country President Clinton couldn't wait to get his grubby little hands on.
13 posted on 01/10/2003 4:29:53 PM PST by AdA$tra
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Save the Montagnards

Save the Montagnards

14 posted on 01/10/2003 5:07:22 PM PST by ppaul
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Christmas crackdown in Vietnam (Communists persecute Christians, again)
The Washington Times ^ | Januar 2, 2003 | Editorial Board
Posted on 01/02/2003 2:56 AM PST by Skooz
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15 posted on 01/10/2003 5:18:49 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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16 posted on 01/10/2003 5:43:07 PM PST by Siobhan (+ Call Congress Today +)
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- 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). -

Prayers for the Montagnards.
17 posted on 01/10/2003 5:55:47 PM PST by TigersEye
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Your#1)...............bttt

But why is Vietnam so afraid of Christianity?

But why is 'international moral relativism' so afraid of Christianity?

They deny 'The Truth' and worship 'the lies of the liars'?

They are NOT 'freemen' but 'slaves' of despotic violent idolatry!

(The Truth Shall 'Make' You Free)

18 posted on 01/10/2003 5:59:31 PM PST by maestro
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Communism is the ultimate child of the Enlightenment, which is founded on irreligion and seeks the rule of the masses by a new priesthood "of Apollo," as Lewis Mumford put it.
19 posted on 01/10/2003 7:57:03 PM PST by RobbyS
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20 posted on 01/10/2003 9:16:03 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (vs. The Enemy Within HILLARY RODHAM)
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