While Ksor Yun is living in the United States as a refugee, his family living in Vietnam remains the focus of harassment and brutality by Vietnamese security forces.

Below is an article published by the Montagnard Foundation:

H’Hmi […] the wife of a Degar refugee named Ksor Yun and her son Yui […] are currently in great danger as Vietnamese security forces tortured and imprisoned them on 9 March 2008. H’Hmi heard her son screaming in the next cell from being tortured and she was released due to her beating injuries, but re-arrested the next day. Both remain in prison and we plea for international help to get them released before they suffer more pain or die in prison.

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At around 7:00am in the morning of March 9, 2008, the Vietnamese security police summoned H’Hmi and her son Yui to report to their office at the commune of Habau, district Dak Doa in the Gialai province. H’Hmi is 48 years old and Yui is age 25 and they are from village of Ploi Ring, commune of Habau, district of Dak Doa in the province of Gialai. H’Hmi and her son Yui reported to the police station at Habau commune at around 8:00am on March 9, 2008. Immediately the security police arrested them and aggressively pushed each one of them to a different room side by side. 

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H’Hmi and her son Yui have been punished by the Vietnamese police, not for any crime or wrong doing, but because of the hatred that the Vietnamese government and its people harbors towards our indigenous Degar people.

Because H’Hmi was injured and suffering pain from torture the security police sent her home on March 11, 2008  at around 7:00pm. Her son Yui was taken to the prison facility in the district of Dak Doa. However, the Vietnamese security police came back later on March 12, 2008 to H’Hmi’s house and arrested her, taking her to the prison facility at the district of Dak Doa where her son Yui was imprisoned.  Currently both H’Hmi and her son Yui are imprisoned at the prison in Dak Doa district and her other six children are home by themselves.

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According to the Vietnamese constitution article 72 states “No one shall be regarded as guilty and be subjected to punishment before the sentence of the Court has acquired full legal effect. Any person who has been arrested, held in custody, prosecuted, brought to trial in violation of the law shall be entitled to damages for any material harm suffered and his reputation shall be rehabilitated. Anybody who contravenes the law in arresting, holding in custody, prosecuting, bringing to trial another person thereby causing him damage shall be dealt with severely.”

And, article 75 states “The State shall protect the legitimate interests of Vietnamese people residing abroad. The State shall create the necessary conditions for Vietnamese residing abroad to maintain close ties with their families and native land and to contribute to national construction.”

The Vietnamese Government’s disreguard for these above laws indicate the racism of the Vietnamese government is beyond measure and their hatred toward our people will never stop. Our people are trying to find a way to live peacefully as people and one nation but the communist authorities are merely trying to find any way to destroy our people.  We the Degar people have been living on our ancestral Central Highlands for thousands of years.  The South Vietnamese established their government on our territory in 1955 after the French left Indochina in 1954. The North Vietnamese established their government on our territory in 1975 after the American Forces left South Vietnam. Ever since our people have found themselves marginalized […] as the Vietnamese people have the right to these lands and our people have none.

We are indigenous people who only want land rights according to International standards of indigenous rights so our people can survive. We appeal on behalf of the Degar people, to the world community, especially the United Nations, to please give us life but please don’t give us this slow and painful death like the Vietnamese government is continually doing to our people at the present time.

Please help our people and help these two victims here so that the Vietnamese government releases them and that they receive urgent medical attention from the Red Cross or other international medical teams.

Thank you and God bless.
Kok Ksor,
Montagnard Foundation