Viet Nam Human Rights
The truth about Kok Ksor and his MFI
1/2/15
The Degar, also known as the Montagnard, are the indigenous peoples of the Central
Highlands of Vietnam. The term Montagnard means "mountain people"
in French and is a carryover from the French colonial period in Vietnam. Montagnard refers to an indigenous
people group generally from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It includes individuals
from multiple tribal groups, including the Bahnar, Jarai, Koho, Hmong
and E De (or Rhade) peoples.
During the Vietnam War it is estimated that some 40,000
Montagnards served with the US
military as scouts, interpreters and soldiers. Because of fault propaganda from
the US, many Montagnards
immigrated to the US states
of North Carolina and South Carolina in the late 1970s after the Vietnam War.
Many Montagnards that currently reside in North and South Carolina are Christians and teach
Christianity to their people in their language.
Montagnard Foundation, Inc. (MFI)
is an anti-communist organization that claims to
protect the rights of the Montagnard people. It is a non-profit organization, founded in
1990 and based in South Carolina in the United States, that has spoken out against Vietnam's
polices that affect the Montagnard people.
The Montagnard
Foundation is led by exiled leader Kok Ksor
who, in the name of the TRP, presented a report accusing Vietnam of violating
human rights and suppressing Montagnards and religious followers in the Central
Highlands at the fifth session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on
April 15th, 2002 and at a conference held by the European Parliament on
September 16th, 2002. He was born in 1945 in Gia Lai province (Central
Highlands of Vietnam).
Ksor Kok joined the Fulro separatist group led by Kpa Koi in 1969 when it moved
to Cambodia.
Ksor Kok received military staff training in the US in 1974. In December 1974,
general Y Bham Enuol – leader of the Fulro movement presented Ksor Kok publicly
as a lieutenant general serving as his aide and representative in the US.
In 1986 several
hundred Fulro soldiers and their families were relocated to the United States
as refugees. In 1992, Ksor Kok together with a number of Fulro core cadres set
up the Montagnard Foundation (MFI). So, the Montagnard Foundation is the latest
incarnation of the Fulro Separatist Insurgency. “Fulro” first made a name for
itself as a militant group in September 1964 when it organized a rebellion
among 3,000 Montagnard combatants in five US
special force camps in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It has been known as a
separatist group, advocating and using violent means.
By late 1999, Ksor
Kok officially proclaimed the establishment of the ‘independent Dega state’ in
exile in the United States.
The Dega state purports to include 14 provinces of Vietnam from Quang Tri to Binh
Thuan with the 4 provinces of the Central Highlands at the core. MFI and Ksor
Kok also promote a new religious denomination, so called Dega Protestantism,
along ethnic lines, Dega Protestantism being reserved only for Central
Highlands ethnic minority followers, separate from protestant believers from
the majority ethnic group in a policy which amounts to ethnic discrimination
and division and exploitation of religion for political purposes. He and his organizations
has incited minority peoples in the Central Highland to launch two large
protests in 2001 and 2004 against the State which costed many damages to
national interests.
In conclusion, the
Montagnard Foundation is a political organization (not a human rights
organization) with a separatist agenda and resorting to violence and abuse of
religious freedom to interfere from outside with a view to destabilizing and
sowing division among the ethnic communities in the Central Highlands. Ksor Kok
and MFI not only lied to Central Highlanders, but also intended to dupe the
whole world under the cloak of the transnational radical party.
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All comments [ 11 ]
I don't know why so many people believe this man and commit his dirty activities like that, we should help people recognize his true face.
The State and government need to enhance lawful means to contain these men and organizations, don't let them ruin the country and hurt national interests.
Look, so damn face he has!
After the social disorder in the Central Highlands in 2001 and 2004, some western media agencies made incorrect new stories exaggerating and accusing Vietnam of violating fundamental human rights and suppressing religious freedom. So hilarious!
Kok Ksor and MFI aim to use violence and abuse of religious freedom to interfere from outside with a view to destabilizing and sowing division among the ethnic communities in the Central Highlands.
Montagnard, Khmer, H'mong... all minority peoples are Vietnamese, we should unite and stand together to build the country strong.
So sad that many people have been decieved by his allegations.
It is not surprising that some local people who had been misled by Ksor Kok to flee away to Cambodia and then to the US recently ask for permission to return home.
They just try to lie and deceive the whole world about the true human rights situation in Vietnam for their own purposes.
Hope his true face and wrong allegations will be exposed soon.
We can't stand together, we are not Vietnamese and we have no rights in Vietnam,Vietnamese treats us like animals, we can't do anything. So thats the problem.
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