Montagnards Stand For Justice

  Other Names:  Y Quynh Bdap Date of Birth:  June 15, 1992 Gender:  M Religion:  Christian (Protestant) Ethnicity:  Ede Occupation:  NGO worker Areas of Activism: Indigenous rights Known Affiliations: Montagnards Stand for Justice (MSFJ) History of Activism Y Quynh Bdap was charged with terrorism, allegedly in connection with the June 11, 2023 attack on government buildings in Dak Lak Province. Y  Quynh  was in Thailand at the time of the attack and claimed that he was not involved in any way. Despite charging him with terrorism, Vietnam has not made public any evidence against him to substantiate their claim. He was sentenced in absentia to 10 years' imprisonment.  Previously, Y  Quynh , who is an advocate for religious and ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, has been arrested a number of times and alleges that he  was brutally beaten  in 2010 while he was detained. In  2008, after hundreds of people were jailed ...

  2024.03.15 Vietnamese police track down Montagnards in Thailand Maj. Gen. Rah Lan Lam, director of the Gia Lai Provincial Police (holding a mobile phone) and Police Lt. Col. Y Luong Nie (at right in white shirt) speak with Montagnards in Bang Len district, Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, March 14, 2023. Vietnamese police talk to refugees Y Quynh Bdap Police from Vietnam’s Dak Lak province made unexpected visits to two areas in Thailand where ethnic minorities are seeking refugee status on grounds that they have been persecuted, they told Radio Free Asia, a news service affiliated with BenarNews. Members of the Montagnard community said they panicked when the agents visited their homes on Thursday to persuade and threaten them to return to Vietnam. The term “Montagnard” was coined by French colonialists to describe tribes who live in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, many of whom are Christians, but Vietnam has rejected use of the term. Police also searched for those wanted the June ...