ON THE 14th OF APRIL 2008, two Degar (Montagnard) Christians named Y-Song Nie and Y-Huang Nie were returning to their village after having participated in a peaceful protest for the release of their two Christian sisters and one Christian brother, who were arrested earlier on the 9th of April in 2008, at the commune of Ia Ken. On this day the 14th of April 2008 the Vietnamese security police arrested and savagely killed Y-Song Nie and Y-Huang Nie The security police broke both of their legs, both their hands and cracked their skulls. After murdering them, the security police returned the bodies to their family village and admitted murdering Y-Song Nie and Y-Huang Nie. The security police ordered their families to bury the corpses in one grave and provided them with one coffin for both corpses, one 100Kg bag of rice and one million 1,000,000 dong (Vietnamese currency which is worth about $66.00 USD) for each family. The security police forced the family to bury both of the dead in one grave and threatened the families, saying “If anyone of you reports this incident to the international community or to Kok Ksor, we will come and kill all of you.”

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