{{Short description|Rhade civil servant during the Vietnam War}} {{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=February 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | native_name = | native_name_lang = km | nickname = | name = Y Bhăm Êñuôl | image = Y Bhăm Êñuôl.jpg | caption = | order = President of Central Autonomous Commission of the BAJARAKA | prime_minister = | vice_president = | term_start = 1957 | term_end = 20 September 1964 | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = Deputy Governor of Đắk Lắk province | term_start2 = 1963 | term_end2 = 1964 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = President of Central Highlands Liberation Front | term_start3 = March 1964 | term_end3 = 20 September 1964 | office4 = Chairman of Central Committee of FULRO | term_start4 = 20 September 1964 | term_end4 = 20 April 1975 | birth_date = 1913 | birth_place = Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk province, French Indochina | death_date = 20 April 1975 | death_place = Phnom Penh, Democratic Kampuchea | resting_place = | spouse = | party = {{flagicon image|Flag of BAJARAKA.svg}} BAJARAKA<br>{{flagicon image|FLHP drapeau.png}} Central Highlands Liberation Front (FLHP) {{flagicon image|Flag of FULRO.svg}} FULRO | alma_mater = | allegiance = {{flag|South Vietnam}}<br> {{flagicon image|Flag of FULRO.svg}} FULRO | service_years = | branch = | battles = {{Tree list}} **Vietnam War ***FULRO insurgency ****1964 FLHP rebellion **Cambodian Civil War ***Fall of Phnom Penh{{Tree list/end}} }} '''Y Bham Enuol''' (Y Bhăm Êñuôl; '''Y Bham''' for short; 1913–20 April 1975) was a Rhade civil servant and a prominent figure during the Vietnam War.
Y Bham Enuol was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province in 1913.<ref name="Berman2011">{{cite book |last1=Berman |first1=David M. |editor1-last=Tucker |editor1-first=Spencer C. |title=The encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaviet00tuck |url-access=limited |date=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851099610 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaviet00tuck/page/n396 349]-350 |edition=2nd |chapter=Enuol, Y Bham}}</ref> On May 1, 1958, he established BAJARAKA, an organization seeking autonomy for minorities in the Central Highlands. BAJARAKA was the predecessor of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), which played an important role during the Vietnam War. Y Bham was selected president of FULRO.
On 20 September 1964, Y Bham was arrested and deported to Cambodia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Window on a War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict|author=Gerald Cannon Hickey|publisher=Texas Tech University Press|isbn=0-89672-490-5|year=2002|page=153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lru4bby8jFEC&dq=Y+Bham+Enuol&pg=PA68}}</ref> Later, he lived in Phnom Penh. When the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge) seized Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, Y Bham and other FULRO leaders living in Phnom Penh sought refuge in the French Embassy.<ref>{{cite book|title=Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts Over Land and Religion in Vietnam's Central Highlands|year=2002|publisher=Human Rights Watch|author=Human Rights Watch|isbn=1-56432-272-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/repressionofmont00huma/page/25 25]|url=https://archive.org/details/repressionofmont00huma|url-access=registration|quote=Y Bham Enuol.}}</ref> On 20 April they were all taken out and executed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kỷ niệm 38 năm từ trần của Y Bham Enuol, lãnh tụ phong trào Fulro |url=http://www.champaka.info/index.php/tintuc/2012/768-kyniem |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=www.champaka.info|url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124131754/http://www.champaka.info/index.php/tintuc/2012/768-kyniem|archive-date=November 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO) - Defending Human Rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam |url=http://www.mhro.org/montangards-history |access-date=2022-08-09 |language=en-US|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514223653/https://www.mhro.org/montangards-history|archive-date=May 14, 2023}}</ref> However, members of FULRO did not know of his death until, after seventeen years American journalist Nate Thayer informed the group that Y Bham had been executed.<ref>Nate Thayer, "Forgotten Army: The Rebels Time Forgot," ''Far Eastern Economic Review,'' Sept 10, 1992, pp. 16–22.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.voacambodia.com/a/7068904.html|archive-date=June 9, 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609062249/https://www.voacambodia.com/a/7068904.html|title=How an American Journalist Saved a Renegade Jungle Army in Cambodia|date=April 28, 2023|last=Meyn|first=Colin|publisher=Voice of America Khmer}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:1913 births Category:1975 deaths Category:People from Đắk Lắk province Category:Rade people Category:Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War Category:People executed by the Khmer Rouge