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Y Bham Enuol: the prison years, 1958 to 1964
He was arrested in the autumn of 1958 for writing letters, and he was not free again until February 1964. The sources disagree about the sentence, the prisons and even the number of years — four, five, six or seven, depending on who is counting. What they agree on is that the Republic of Vietnam jailed the man who had asked it for schools, kept...
1975, and what came after
The Republic of Vietnam began to lose the war in our country, at Buon Ma Thuot on March 10, 1975, and it lost the highlands in two weeks. For our people the spring of 1975 was not an ending. Our minister asked the Americans for protection and was refused. Two thousand of our people waited on a beach at Nha Trang for a ship that never came. Our l...
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...
The camps and the prisons, 1975 to today
Since 1975 our people have been held in two generations of camps and prisons. The first held the men of the old order: our ministers and officials, the soldiers who had served with the Americans, and our pastors, taken without trial after the war. The second has held the people of the churches and the land protests since 2001, tried in groups an...
Re-education and the forest, 1975–1992
After April 1975 our leaders went to prison without trial, our soldiers went to the camps or to the forest, and our pastors went to both. The men who reached Cambodia fought on for seventeen years on corn and poisoned potatoes, waiting for orders from a president who had already been dead for most of that time. The men who came home from the cam...
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