06 May 2009 :

Siu Krot, a Degar aged 65, was brutally murdered by both civilians and security police for his farmland. When he went to work on his farm not too far from his village early in the morning, around 10 Vietnamese civilians and a couple of Vietnamese security police were already there waiting for him at his hut. At Siu Krot’s hut this group of Vietnamese asked him to sell them his farmland but he refused. They then proceeded to take him away from his farm for about 3 kilometers, then they killed him by whacking him with their machete on the back of his head, on his forehead, on his nose, both sides of his cheek and beat him up until he died. Then they tied a big rock to his corpse and sunk him to the bottom of the river. The family was waiting for Siu Krot that night but he did not come home. So, early in the morning of January 8, 2009, his son and family went to the farm to see what had happened to him. On their way to the farm, when they got to the river, they were stopped by Vietnamese police. They could see that a doctor was performing an autopsy on the corpse of Siu Krot along the riverbank. The doctor took all of his intestines, heart, and liver and so on from his body and then he threw them back inside and told his family to take the corpse home and bury it.