Nay Y’Blang has already served four years for refusing to leave his church. In January 2025 the police called him in again, and this time they filmed him promising to give it up.
On 20 April 2023 people from Ea Bhok commune stood in the way of a scheme to release waste water into Ea Mta lake. They were met with batons and electric whips.
Siu Hiêm told the people in the shop that the drink he had just been handed was poisoned. He died in front of them minutes later, on 2 June 2022. The officers who came, his family says, did nothing.
Wen Ksor was followed and attacked on his way back from visiting his cousin. Officers were there. They did not stop the man, and they did not answer him when he asked why.
He knew he was being followed, and tried to get clear of them. Four officers stayed with him from Saigon to Bình Dương, and stopped him when he arrived.
Siu Nan fled to Thailand with his parents, was sent back in 2019, and was arrested on 28 March 2022. He was accused of intending to start a Dega group against the government.
Rmah Bit fled to Cambodia in 2015 and put his own name down for return. He came back to house arrest, lost a leg in a military hospital in 2020, and died in March 2022.
Hundreds of police, vans and ambulances were sent to Kon Rơ Wang for a land acquisition that the households there had not accepted. Y-Khuê stood in front of them with empty hands.
He was nineteen when he was sentenced over an argument between boys in his village. Three months later his family were told he was in hospital. He was not. When they brought his body home and washed it, his chest was crushed and his face was broken.
Before he signed his release papers the police held a party for him, with food and bottles of soda. His family say the soda was poisoned. He went home, married, had three children, and began to fail in 2019.
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