Repression of Montagnards
Subtitle: conflicts over land and religion in Vietnam's central highlands
By: Human Rights Watch
Contributors: Jones, Sidney, 1952-; Saunders, Joseph, 1959-; Smart, Malcolm; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Montagnards (Vietnamese people) -- Legal status, laws, etc; Minorities -- Crimes against -- Vietnam; Ethnic conflict -- Vietnam; Government, Resistance to -- Vietnam; Human rights -- Vietnam
Other titles: Conflicts over land and religion in Vietnam's central highlands
Description: In February 2001, several thousand members of indigenous minorities from Vietnam's Central Highlands, often collectively known as Montagnards, held a series of largely peaceful demonstration calling for independence, return of ancestral lands, and religious freedom. Vietnamese authorities responded with a massive show of force, deploying thousands of police and soldiers to disperse the protesters. In the weeks and months following the demonstration, authorities arrested hudreds of highlanders, sometimes using torture to elicit confessions and public statements of remorse by protest organizers.
Notes: "... based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch from February 2001 through February 2002. The report was edited by Sidney Jones, director of the Asia Division, Joe Saunders, deputy director of the Asia Division, and Malcolm Smart, program director"--Acknowl

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