Vietnam: Two Montagnard Christians killed
Jul 22 2008
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Two Montagnard Christians were killed in the Central Highlands when Vietnamese officials ambushed a group on their way to a prayer vigil and pelted them with rocks.

The group, from Plei Kuk Gyer village in Gia Lai province, had canoed across a lake and were about to get out of their boats when security police appeared on the shore and began to throw boulders at them.

Two men – A Lat and A Brin, aged 61 and 46 – were hit on the head: they fell into the lake and died. Their families were denied their wish to bury them at the site of the prayer vigil – and were forced to carry the bodies back to their village for the funerals.

Ethnic minority Montagnards, many of whom are Christians, are regularly harassed by the authorities who suspect them of separatism and Western sympathies.

(Source: The Montagnard Foundation)

Pray for the families and friends of the two Montagnard Christians killed in the assault by security officials. Pray they will have justice.

Pray for the officers involved in that assault: ask God to convict them that what they are doing is unjust.