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...RELEASED. KEVIN DOYLE, editor of the Cambodia Daily and reporter for TIME, by Cambodian officials after being detained for more than 36 hours for alleged "human trafficking" while reporting on Montagnard refugees; in Ratanakiri province. Doyle, along with another journalist and a human-rights worker, was held by military authorities in northeast Cambodia, where hundreds of Montagnards fleeing Vietnam are attempting to reach the safety of a shelter provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...forces. Dozens of protesters were injured and the government claims two were killed by rocks thrown by their own gangs. The authorities claim the clashes were organized from afar by Kok Ksor, a 60-year-old exile from the Jarai tribe who lives in South Carolina and runs the Montagnard Foundation, which tries to publicize the plight of the Montagnards. His goal, according to Hanoi, is an independent state. It says Ksor and confederates are also reconstituting F.U.L.R.O., a separatist guerrilla force disbanded in 1992. Ksor allegedly persuaded poor farmers to take part. Says Vu Quang Khuyen, police chief...
...Ksor, the alleged terrorist mastermind, he is easy to find. Sitting in a Red Lobster seafood restaurant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in early June, he hardly appears fearsome. (American authorities aren't worried about him: "Neither the Montagnard Foundation nor Mr. Ksor are included on any official U.S. government list of terrorists," says a U.S. embassy spokesman in Hanoi.) Ksor, who fought with the Americans during the Vietnam War, knows of the allegations back home and realizes that relatives in the Highlands have denounced him (under duress, he says). He admits to having been in contact with highlanders but says...
...Glen Envil, a 34-year-old Montagnard who landed last week in Raleigh with her husband and three children, says she was forced to flee Vietnam because "life was just getting worse and worse." Farmland that had been passed down through generations of her family was seized by the government. Vietnamese migrants, now the majority in the highlands, pocketed the profits from coffee and rice crops that rightfully belonged to her family. "Our children go hungry sometimes," she says. "Without land how can we get money? How can we get medical care?" In the end, Envil and her family grew...
...Hanoi officials claim the refugees' stories are fabrications. The government denies access to the Central Highlands by journalists and representatives of humanitarian aid organizations. But recent reports by Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department corroborate Montagnard accounts. "This is a systematic crackdown," says Mike Jendrzejczyk of Human Rights Watch. "And it's still going...