05 January 2004 :

The Radical members of the European Parliament presented a parliamentary question with regard to the summary execution of a farmer named Nih.
The text of the PQ states:
"On December 13, 2003 a group of Vietnamese paramilitary police from the Dak Doa district surrounded the village of Plei O Dot, in Gia Lai province, and arrested two villagers named Nih, 41, and So, 44, both Christians and supporters of the Montagnard Foundation Inc. and the Transnational Radical Party.
"They were both taken to the district jail and tortured with blows and electric shocks. Nih refused to answer questions or to renounce Christ. Major Tuan, of the district police, stabbed him in the chest then slit his throat.
"On December 15, the Vietnamese police returned Nih's corpse to his family, but forbid them to hold a funeral. They declared that they wanted to show the villagers what happens to whom is not a friend of the Vietnamese government.
"Nih was killed because he gave food and aid to the Montagnard refugees hidden in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Cambodia to escape arrest and torture by the Vietnamese police and military forces."
The MEPs called on the Commission to state whether it was aware of the atrocities being carried out and what it intended to do to ensure that those responsible for them were brought to trial and their victims immediately set free.