Here in the windswept, rolling hills of central Vietnam, there are many reminders of the war that ended four decades ago.
Dim, right, is a Montagnard who fought alongside U.S. Army special forces in the Vietnam War. Chuh A., left, is the son of a Montagnard veteran and was deported from the U.S. in 2017.
“Hanoi’s perspective on the Montagnards seems fixed in a Vietnam War-era past,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division. “Ever since the war ended in 1975, the Montagnards have faced systematic harassment, intrusive surveillance and persecution.”They say that long ago U.S. soldiers they befriended promised them refuge in the United States, but only about 1,500 of the 70,000 who fought have been allowed in.
“The U.S. military came to our villages and asked us, ‘Who wants to join and fight the Vietnamese?’” recalled Uoh, a 75-year-old former paratrooper, who, like many Montagnards, has only one name.The Montagnards make up about 15% of Vietnam’s 90 million people and 70% of its poor. They come from a variety of tribes and speak numerous languages, but they are predominantly Christian, which helped them quickly bond with the Americans..
But it would be an additional 13 years before the U.S. resettled any Montagnards. In the meantime, the communists defeated South Vietnamese forces, executed some Montagnards and placed most of the rest in reeducation camps. Vietnam’s government has long sponsored colonization of the coffee-growing region by the Kinh majority, displacing Montagnards from their native land. Many Montagnards have sought asylum in neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, largely unsuccessfully.Asked whether they regret fighting for the U.S., the veterans proudly stood by their decisions.Asked about abuses against the Montagnards, a spokesman for the American Embassy in Hanoi said in a statement that the U.S.
It is unclear how many of the 193 Vietnamese nationals deported over the last two years are Montagnards. One is Chuh A — his last name was assigned by the Vietnamese government — who came to the U.S. as a teenager in the late 1990s with his father, a Montagnard leader who spent nearly a decade in a reeducation camp after the war.
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