Statement by Mr. Kok Ksor, President Montagnard Foundation, Inc., on the occasion of the release of the December 2003 Christmas Report. “This Christmas will not be a Merry Christmas for the Montagnard Degar People inside and out of Vietnam. The Degar People are not allowed to celebrate Christmas with official masses and ceremonies in Vietnam under threat of arrest and torture. The Vietnamese Government continues to repress us and interfere in our religious affairs. This year however, thanks to Radio Radicale the Montagnard people will celebrate Christmas all together through radio broadcasting from abroad into Vietnam’s tightly controlled central highlands. This is the only freedom we can enjoy today but the Vietnamese communist government will not destroy our spirit. Our people want to be free and we will continue seeking freedom through nonviolent means. Now the international community must realize that a moral and legal obligation exists to free all the oppressed people of the world from oppressive Governments like Vietnam.”