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The Montagnards are divided between two language families, the Mon-Khmer (now spoken as minority langauges from Burma to North Vietnam, and as the majority language of Cambodia), and the Chamic division of the Malayo-Polynesian family.
The Montagnards remained aloof from the Chinese great tradition that molded the society of the Vietnamese, and also from the Indian influences diffusing eastward that brought civilization to the Cambodians and the Lao.
This prompted the North Vietnamese to attack a Montagnard village, and the South Vietnamese airforce to destroy the Rhade' villages.
Montagnard repression has been especially brutal since the U.S. government granted asylum to a group of more than 800 Montagnard refugees earlier this spring, according to Kay Reibold, director of the Vietnam Highlands Assistance Project for Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas, whose organization has given shelter and assistance to many of those refugees.
Communist Montagnards and Vietnamese cadre from North Vietnam were sent into the highlands to live in villages, where they successfully exploited Montagnard prejudices and their hopes for independence.
Six Montagnards, including a member of FULRO, were elected to the National Assembly; President Nguyen Van Thieu signed a special law which recognized the Montagnards' right to own their land; and the GVN established the Ministry for Ethnic Minorities with Paul Nur installed as a regular member of the Cabinet.
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