Tuesday, December 1, 2015

“America has forgotten about us”: Former allies in Vietnam flee persecution

Via David

"America has forgotten about us": Former allies in Vietnam flee persecution

During the Vietnam War, Kanh Kpa’s indigenous Montagnard relatives fought alongside US Army Special Forces in Vietnam’s remote Central Highlands, where the mostly Christian tribesmen gained a reputation as fierce and loyal allies.

But after the war, the ethnic and religious minority Montagnards, or “mountain people,” long at odds with the Vietnamese government, paid a steep price. Some were imprisoned, others fled into jungles or suffered years of ethnic discrimination and religious repression, human rights groups say.

Today Kpa is living in hiding in a dingy house on the outskirts of Bangkok, among a wave of hundreds of Montagnards who fled to Thailand and Cambodia in the last year claiming religious persecution — the latest chapter of a troubled history.

Kpa said local Vietnamese authorities last year harassed and detained him and others. But while he’s pinning his hopes on getting to the United States, so far he and other asylum seekers among the former US tribal allies are fighting an uphill battle for both refugee status and international attention to their plight.

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12 comments:

  1. Abandoned. This is what psychopaths do; play with other people lives. The
    Vietnamese would be suited to America; not Syrians. Note in this article the
    mention of Vietnam War's Tet Offensive. Also, note Walter Cronkite, the communist
    that families were glued to his every word. Also, note the invasion of Europe is
    part of the psychopaths plan - just games to them. They should targeted and gotten
    rid of once and for all:
    http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/11/tet-take-two-islams-2016-european-offensive/

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    1. They should targeted and gotte rid of once and for all:

      I'd give the order in a minute. Thanks.

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    2. Politicians. I thought it was a requirement to be a psychopath to be a politician.

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    3. If it's not, then it must be a coincidence,. :)

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  2. I see you already had this article posted. Sorry. Refugee Resettlement Watch
    had it also.

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    1. Not at all. Better 10 times than none at all. Thanks.

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  3. Go figure, decent people abandoned, crap ragheads given vip treatment....

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  4. Those poor people found out the hard way what Southerners already knew: the US Government isn't there to help YOU, just themselves.


    Central Alabamaian

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    1. It is beyond me, why any country took our word after Vietnam. Just mind boggling.

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  5. Countries will still take our money.
    Not our trust.

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