Meeting with Highlanders allegedly killed with poison
Dac Lac, Dec. 2 (VNA) -- "I'm so angry with reports that I was killed some days ago," said Y Het Nie Kdam, one of the three ethnic minority highlanders, who were allegedly killed with poison injected by the local security force.
Y Het Nie Kdam, 42, a resident of Buon Sech, Dlie Yang commune, Ea H'leo district of Central Highlands Dac Lac province, was together with Y Suon M'lo and Y Ual Ayun reported dead in custody by the US- based Montagnard Foundation on Nov. 13.
At a recent face-to-face meeting with reporters at a detention centre of the Dac Lac police force, Nie Kdam said that he was arrested on the charge of regular phone contact with Y Mut Mlo, a mastermind of FULRO, an acronym for the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races, before colonial rule ended in 1954.
Y Mut Mlo, a member of the Ksor Kok reactionary group in the US, had tried to contact ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands to incite them to act against the local administration in an attenpt to establish the so-called De Ga state in the region.
Also during their visit, the reporters tried to determine the where- abouts of the two others allegally injected, but failed to identify them because there were no names in the Dac Lac provincial detention centre's records that matched those reported by the Montagnard foundation.
However, the reporters were guided by the centre's manager to meet two detainees, whose names were similar. They are Y Thuon Nie, 30, and Y Oal Nie, 37, who told the reporters that they had always been given enough food, medical treatment and been treated well.
"We have confessed to all crimes we had committed and hope that we will be released to have an early family reunion," said Y Oal Nie, a resident of Buon Hai, Chu M'ta commune, M' Drac district, who was arrested for his involvement in the unrest in the Central Highlands last February.
Meanwhile, Y Thuon Nie (or Ama Dain), a resident of Buon Kwang, Chu Bao commune, Krong Buk district, said he was arrested on the charge of organising illegal emigrations to Cambodia on the orders of Ksor Kok, leader of the so-called De Ga state.
He said he received regular meals and good treatment from the detention centre managers and staff members although he had committed serious crimes. He also wished to be given leniency from the government to become a useful citizen.
