(MENAFN- Asia Times) In late August 1992, Reuters Phnom Penh Bureau Chief Mark Dodd came across a bizarre bit of information. According to a UNTAC Aussie Signals officer, there was a small army in the ...

Bamboo flutes tweedled, brass gongs thrummed, and Montagnard maidens twisted ceremonial copper bracelets round the wrists of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Premier Tran Van Huong and other South ...

Hin Nie was a lieutenant colonel and pastor who fought Communist forces in the Vietnam War Pastor Y Hin Nie, 75, preaches the gospel from the comfort of his church in the US state of North Carolina.

In 1967, during the Vietnam War, William Chickering commanded a Mike Force battalion of Montagnards, highland tribesmen who were also members of a secret army, FULRO, the Front unifié de lutte des ...

Far deeper than the North-South Cabinet split was the wound that Premier Ky sought to heal last week at Pleiku. There, on the edge of Viet Nam’s serrated central plateau, he sat down with leaders of ...

Following the protests, Vietnamese authorities responded with a mixture of repression and new policy initiatives, some aimed at addressing highlander grievances. Their initial reaction was to dispatch ...

Montagnard refugees shelter under canvas in Mondulkiri. Y Dlang Ebhar is a nationalist without a nation. A Montagnard tribesman from a village in Vietnam's DacLac province, he is one of the latest in ...

After attempting to organize violent protests at various locations in the highlands and facing continued failure, some helpless leaders fled into the forest. But the sacred wood and untamed water ...

Pastor Y Hin Nie, 75, preaches the gospel from the comfort of his church in the US state of North Carolina. But as a young man he survived nearly two decades in the jungle, giving sermons to his ...