Vietnam has stepped up its repression of Montagnard people in the Central Highlands region in anticipation of worldwide demonstrations to be conducted outside Vietnamese Embassies on September 21, 2002. The demonstrations, organized by the Transnational Radical Party, will protest Vietnam’s ‘war on democracy’ and continuing human rights violations. Word of the demonstrations has reached the Central Highlands, and the Montagnard people are threatened with increasing acts of torture and brutalities by Vietnamese security forces.See Spotlight Article
