My story

June 23, 2020 - My story

 My name is Y-Duen Buondap. I was born in 1958 during the Vietnam Civil War in the village of Buon Ea Khit in the Province of Dak-Lak. My parents were farmers who relied on subsistence farming to survive. My village was plagued with poverty, ill health, government repression, and war (which was the case for most Dega communities). This was the result of years of repressive programs enacted by South Vietnam. This was made worse by deliberate genocide warfare on Dega territory by North Vietnam, the Viet-Cong, and South Vietnam. After witnessing terrible crimes against my people, I left to join the Dega Liberation Movement (FLHPM - commonly known as FULRO) in the jungles of South Asia in 1976. I was only 12 years old. That day I chose to fight for my people because of my God-given rights for survival, freedom, and independence. 

    The French first steps were in Dega country in 1800. Administrative control and ''nominal overlordship'' over the Central Highlands dissolved in the late 1800s with the increased French role in the region and encroachment from Siam ''Thailand.” The French assumed official control over the Central Highlands in 1893.

The French missionaries were also good to the Dega people and 80 percent of the Dega people became Catholic; and by 1930, 20 percent became protestant.

The Dega Country. Now the Central Highlands.

    

    The Dega people came from The Tower of Babel. The Lord said they are one people with one language, they live together. Three boats left The Tower of Babel together, one boat stopped in Malaysia, one boat stopped in the Philippines and a Dega boat stopped at Central Highlands. The name of the city where the boat stopped at was named Kam Mran. Kam Mran was renamed by the Vietnamese and became Cam Ranh. Cam Ranh is also known as the port of Dega.

    Since God gave birth to the world we, the Dega people have always lived in the same location in the Central highlands. The Central Highlands is a separate part of Vietnam. The Dega people are different as a group from the Vietnamese people. We were welcomed by the French, Japanese, and American people in our homeland. We desire to be friendly with all the people.

Dega people lived in peace.

    The Dega people lived in peace until 1954. We had no weapons, no enemies, and no wars. Our enemies were the tigers and snakes but the tigers and snakes never killed the Dega people. We the Dega people respected each other. We would go hunting and fishing and see each other in the forest. We respected and loved each other. It’s only the Vietnamese who wreaked havoc on the Dega people in Dega country.

Dega Montagnards populations during under The French federal government colonization.

    During the French federal period, there was a population of over 3.5 million Dega people and now there is only a population of 200,000 Dega people. Where did the other 3.3 million Dega people go? What is happening to these people? Where are they? We did not go to war with anybody. The only thing we know is that the Vietnamese killed all of my Dega people there in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. We have done absolutely nothing wrong but we are hurting the most. We are completely different from the Vietnamese. From our habits, culture, and social status.

 

    In 1950, the Vietnamese came to live in Dega country. The Vietnamese had a look around the Central Highlands. The Vietnamese saw the Dega people living in peace. No weapons, no enemies, and no war. The Vietnamese waged the war on Dega territory. The Vietnamese had begun a civil war that lasted from 1960 to 1975. In this conflict. Three Vietnamese groups fought in the homeland of the Dega people. In the Vietnam Civil War, Vietnam intended to genocide the Dega people on Dega territory.

    Two States were separated state in 1946:

In 1946, two States were created: The An Nam State for the Vietnamese people, and Montagnard State for the Dega people.

On May 27, 1946, the Dega State was officially recognized when an ordinance was signed by Mr' D'argenlieu, a representative of the French Federal government in Indochina. This area, located in Southeast Asia, was called the Dega land, Dega country.

The borders of our territories were as follows:

To the North, limited by the 17th parallel.

To the East, limited by the annamitic Ridge ( Chaine Annamitique )

To the South, limited by Cochin-China borders.

To the West, limited by Laotian and Cambodian borders.

Be cleared, the Dega borders from the 20th parallel, and not from the 17th parallel; The French who make it from the 17th parallel before they left Vietnam in 1954.

We highly value the land that God gave to us, but that has been taken from us by the Vietnamese.

The Dega Have Planed Movement on September 20, 1954.

The Dega started the movement in 1955, in Buon Ale A, near Buon Ama Thuot. In March 1955, the first group, a secret organization called '' the Dega liberation front '', wrote to President Ngo Dinh Diem with a list of demands, including the right of Dega to fly our own flag.

In August 1958, Y-Bham Enuol sent a letter to some of the main diplomatic missions in Saigon. In September 1958, Y-Bham Enuol, Paul Nur, and Nay Luett were arrested and imprisoned in underground solitary cells in Dalat for three months.

The Dega signed a petition in 1958, requesting the release of the leaders and organized a demonstration attended by 2000 people in Buon Ama Thuot. The Vietnamese government sent in armored units from the army's 23rd Division to break up the demonstration.

In 1959, Y-Bham Enuol, and Paul Nur were released from prison. As soon as Y-Bham Enuol resumed his campaign for the Dega movement he was quickly rearrested and taken to police headquarters in Buon Ama Thuot, where he was reportedly tortured with electric shocks and imprisoned until early 1964.

On the second arrest of Y-Bham Enuol in 1959, they put him in jail in Hue for seven years. In 1961, Y-Bih Aleo escaped and left underground solitary cells in Dalat.

In February 1964, Y-Bham Enuol was released from prison soon after Y-Bham Enuol resumed his campaign for the Dega movement.

Rebellion 1964-1965.

In July 1964, the Dega united struggle front for the right of Self-Defense and independence. The Dega first made a name for itself as a militant group in September 1964, when it organized a rebellion. Buon Sar Pa, Buon Bu Prang, Buon Ban Don, Buon Mi Ga, Buon Brieng, and Buon Ama Thuot first day rebellion.

In 1965, when they let Y-Bham Enuol out of jail, he moved to Cambodia. It was based in Mondulkiri, Nguyen Cao Ky, who replaced Nguyen Khanh after the 1965 coup. The Vietnamese government established a Directorate-General for Development of the Dega. The Vietnamese appointed Paul Nur.

In 1966, Y-Bham Enuol who continued to insist on the right of Self-Defense. In 1968, Y-Bham Enuol briefly returned to Buon Ama Thuot at the Vietnamese government's requests to conduct negotiation over the Dega people, possibly returning to Vietnam. An agreement reached in December 1968, that specified that the Dega could form its own political party and fly its own flag.

In 1969, more than 1300 Dega soldiers accompanied by their families rallied to the South Vietnamese government and left Mondulkiri. They were welcomed at an official ceremony in Buon Ama Thuot. Here the Vietnamese government gave ranks and positions to the soldiers that came along.

Y-Bham Enuol, however, did not return with them. Several Cambodian army battalions surrounded the Dega headquarters in Mondulkiri and escorted Y-Bham to Phnom Penh, where he was kept under virtual house arrest by Les Kosem and Um Savuth.

Before, the Dega people lived in peace, freedom, and security. We respected each other. We do not desire to have enemies or war. Our enemies were tiger and snake. After the French left Vietnam in 1954, the following actions below were a direct result.

The Vietnamese came from the MongCo ''' Mongoloid ''' a nation from far away between

China and Russia. Before the Vietnamese called themselves Yu An, Yu Nan. When the French were in control, the Vietnamese called themselves An Nam, Anam. Now the Vietnamese called themselves the Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese escaped as religious refugees and established their own government in the South and that the Vietnamese secretly planned to take over the Dega country. The Vietnamese planned to deceive the Americans as a way to cover up the Vietnamese war crimes. The Vietnamese asked the Americans for help to fight the communist as crime propaganda.

In 1954, Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel. Ho Chi Minh assumed leadership in the North and Bao Dai assumed leadership in the South. In the general election in 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem was elected as the first President of the Republic of South Vietnam.

Earlier, in 1955, the Vietnamese forced Dega territory to become part of Vietnam.

Between 1954 and 1960, Hanoi and Saigon, both worked together and established the Viet-Cong in 1960. The Vietnamese started the Vietnamese Civil War that lasted from 1960-1975. In this conflict, the Vietnamese fought the Vietnamese Civil War in the homeland of Dega. The purpose of this war, initiated by the Vietnamese to cover up their intention of genocide to the Dega people who were very different from the Vietnamese people.

In 1956, the Vietnamese government started a program to settle the Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of Dega. In 1995, the Vietnamese government had repopulated the Vietnamese in the Central Highlands with a non-Dega population.

Vietnam Civil War from 1960-1975:

In 1960, the Vietnamese started the Vietnamese Civil War. The Vietnamese Civil War was not in Hanoi or Saigon. The Vietnamese Civil War was deliberately on Dega territory. The Vietnamese Civil War was not the war, the Vietnamese massed murdered the Dega people killing over two million people on Dega territory. The majority of those killed in the Dega country and Vietnamese territory were mostly Dega women, men, and children shot down in cold blood. During the Vietnamese Civil War, the Americans were blamed when it was really the Vietnamese.

The Hanoi and Saigon Promised.

The Vietnamese organized a conference of the Dega leaders in Pleiku in October 1964. Requests made by Dega leaders included economic development programs, reinstatement of customary Dega law, use of Rhade languages in school, the formation of a Dega military force with its own flag, and Dega control over and administration of foreign aid to the Dega people.

Y-Bham Enuol followed up on the demands in letters sent to the Vietnamese government as well as the US Embassy, US President Lyndon Johnson, and Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Vietnamese government reportedly agreed to the Dega control over foreign aid to establish a Dega military force with its own flag.

In 1969, the Vietnamese ( Saigon ) promised in the '' 033 '' agreement to give back our land and form our own political party and fly our own flag.

In 1960, Hanoi promised autonomy to Y-Ngong Niekdam if they were victorious against the South Vietnamese government. Dega people will take care of their own people. 

1. The front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.

2. The front for the Liberation of Central Highlands Dega.

In 1970, the Vietnamese government called us a minority. We the Dega people, do not accept being called a minority. We had already informed the Vietnamese government that we do not accept this.

In 1971, the Vietnamese government promised to establish the Central Highlands in future development. Nothing happened. Brothers and sisters, we have learned about what the Vietnamese were really doing and saying based on the Vietnamese actions taking place.

Hanoi Pretended to be the Dega FULRO 1975 - 

In 1975, North Vietnamese forces pretended to be Dega FULRO fighters who flew the Dega flag for a few hours. The North Vietnamese forces called all of the Dega people to lay down your weapons. The Dega FULRO fighters had come inside the Central Highlands already. The North Vietnamese forces hung the flag on the side of their tanks. The letters in the sign said we are Dega FULRO fighters who have come to rescue the Dega people.

After Hanoi occupied South Vietnam in 1975, all the prosperity of the Dega people was confiscated ( taken away ). Our basic freedom, politics, and religious activities were outlawed. Our legal rights cease to exist under communist law. All the Dega leaders and preachers were arrested and jailed.

Dega Dream.

In 1986 and 1992, Dega FULRO fighters came to the United States to reach our ultimate goal. Obtaining support from the United Nations, and recognition by the international community for the Dega to have the legal right of self-determination that can lead to the restoration of the Dega State that was officially recognized on May 27, 1946.

In 2001, this was the first time our Dega Montagnards stood up to the Vietnamese government officials and requested that our Dega communities freely worship God. The Vietnamese communists hunted down and arrested hundreds, hundreds of Dega people and sentenced them to prison. The demonstration that took place on April 16, 2004, had about 200,000 Dega people that were demonstrating and asked the Vietnamese government to return our land to us peacefully. The Dega communities also requested that the Dega people were allowed to worship God almighty freely. 

As a result, the Vietnamese government responded with troops and task forces against our Christian people at that moment, our Dega Christian people were murdered. The bodies were put in trucks. Many more bodies were brought into Buon Ma Thuot Hospital. The bodies were piled on top of each other forming a small hill made of entirely dead bodies. We were not expecting this but a miracle from just the sky came down. Suddenly in the sky, clouds began developing and darkness set everywhere. Rainfall began to fall very heavy and as for the lightning and thunderstorms. Nobody could see. The bodies from the hill began to rise and walk home as nothing happened. After the event happened, the Vietnamese government continued to beat up and torture, injuring thousands, and thousands of Dega people sentence them to prison.

When they were in jail the Vietnamese police officers beat up and tortured them. Some people even died in jail. Most of those who were released usually died after a couple of months because they were either poisoned before they got home or because their bodies were damaged inside. We the Dega people are human as the people are in this world. We have been crying for help but the world has been silent.

The world food Dega blood:

Dating back to 2007, and to this day: The world, they gave the money to Vietnam and brought their equipment ''bull-dozer.

They have destroyed the Dega forest, destroyed Dega houses and confiscated the Dega people farmlands to make their food and wealth. The Vietnamese planted coffee trees, rubber trees, and other plants and were rightfully ours.

Nineveh's Treasures Will be Taken - 

Nineveh was like a pool of water from its first day on. But now its people are fleeing.

'' Stop! Stop'' But no one turns around. Steal the Silver! Steal the gold! There is no end to what is stored here-everything a person could ever want. Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, demolished. 

( NAHUM 2: 8-10 ).

This has been happening on Dega territories dating back to 2007, and to this day.

Thank God:

God bless you, God set his heart on you and God will be with you. God uses you to speak for the Dega, air, and new paper. All the statements above the truth.

Thank God.

Love Dega people.