A Degar Girl Waits on Her Father’s Grave

ICC Note:

The Montagnard Foundation released a special report on the murder of Degar Christian Y Ben Hdok, who was murdered earlier this year by security police who beat and tortured him before putting a rope around his neck, attaching it to a vehicle, and dragging him until he died.

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9/18/08 Vietnam (MontagnardFoundation) Vietnamese security police used a Degar policeman, Y-Blen Nie, to entrap another Degar. They asked Y-Blen Nie to invite his friend, Y-Ben Hdok, to drink coffee with him at a restaurant close to the police station. When our Christian brother, Y-Ben Hdok, arrived at a restaurant, eight Vietnamese security police including Y-Blen Nie attacked him, handcuffed him and took him to a quiet and secluded place where they began to beat him. They struck him repeatedly with their police batons and also kicked, punched, and stomped on him until Y Ben Hdok fell down unconscious. They broke the bones in both his upper and lower legs and also his upper and lower arms. Then, these brutal police officers placed a rope around his neck and then tied it to their jeep and dragged him around until he died. After that, they took his corpse to the hospital and called his family, claiming that Y-Ben Hdok had killed himself.

His parents and his wife asked the chief police from Daklak province “how could a person break all the bones in his own legs, arms, ribs and then break out all of his own teeth How could he “crack his skull on both the front and back sides, and then scratch and burn his skin and tear up his own clothes like he had been dragged through the ground in addition to the rope burns around his neck? How can a man kill himself in this way?” The face of the Vietnamese police chief became red and he was furious because he had no answer.

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THE SECURITY POLICE WHO MURDERED Y BEN HDOK ARE IDENTIFIED AS:

1. Doan Van Tri, Vietnamese

2. Bui Quang Thuan, Vietnamese

3. Pham Duc Can, Vietnamese

4. Pham Thi Ky, Vietnamese

5. Y-Rina Mlo, Degar

6. Y-To Nie, Degar

7. Y-Blen Nie, Degar

8. Y-Lil, Degar

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