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Y Bham Enuol
A Rhade official from Buon Ale-A who led both of our movements, spent more than five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves into the official record, was held under guard by his own allies for the last six years of his life, and walked out of the French Embassy in Phnom Penh on April 20, 1975, i...
Paul Nưr and Nay Luett: the ministry years
Two men who tried the other route. Both were BAJARAKA founders, both went to prison for it under Diem, and both then took office inside the government that had jailed them — one as a province administrator who became the first highlander in a Saigon cabinet, one as the minister who held that ministry to the last week of the Republic. Both died i...
Y Quynh Buondap
Y Quynh Buondap is a Rhade Christian from Dak Lak who spent his twenties collecting the names of our prisoners and writing down what was done to our churches. He fled to Thailand with his family in 2018, was recognized as a refugee by the United Nations, and helped found Montagnards Stand for Justice. In January 2024 a Vietnamese court he never...
Kok Ksor
A Jarai from Bon Broai who joined BAJARAKA at fourteen, went over the border at seventeen, came home from a war by way of a Khmer Republic training course in Virginia, and spent the second half of his life in a small city in South Carolina making our case in rooms where states have to listen. For thirty years Kok Ksor was the Dega most foreign g...
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