HR427 Vietnam Human Rights Act -- VC Leaders are Acting like Aggressive and Remorseless Criminals

Dear friends,

With the pending HR427 legislation, The US Congress is contemplating
making non-humanitarian aids to Communist Vietnam contingent upon
Vietnam's certifiable improvements in its human rights practices. The
leaders of the Vietnamese Communist Party immediately start screaming
that the US is interfering in its internal affairs!

Since when is withholding aids and money from someone interfering in
that person's internal affairs? If you decide not to give money to a
bad person, are you interfering or violating that person in anyway?

For the past 60 years, continual abuses of the human rights and human
dignity of the people of Vietnam, on top of the rampant corruption and
exploitations, by the Vietnamese Communist Party are horrific and
shameful, as confirmed by many independent and impartial sources. The
world knows that the leaders of the Vietnamese Communist Party decided
to confine the Ven. Thich Huyen Quang, the 87 year-old ailing Buddhist
monk, in isolation in his own small pagoda in Quang Ngai for the past
20 years. The Rev. Nguyen Van Ly of the Catholic churches was
similarly given 15 years prison term with 3 years house arrest just
for demanding the return of his Church's land and religious freedom.

Hundreds of other dissidents are sentenced to long terms in prison
just for peacefully expressing their views on the failures of the
Vietnamese Communist Party, like lawyer Le Chi Quang, Dr. Pham Hong
Son, jourmalist Nguyen vu Binh, ex-soldier Nguyen Khac Toan etc… The
montagnards Christians in Vietnam central highlands are continually
persecuted with murders, tortures, poisoning, forced abortions, forced
renunciation of their faiths etc…These are cases well documented by
international uman rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International etc…

It is suspected that the gentle montagnards of Vietnam are being
persecuted because the uneducated, narrow-minded and paranoid leaders
of the Vietnamese Communist Party consider everyone affiliated with
the Protestant faith as potential CIA operatives!

The people of Vietnam is now one of the poorest and most oppressed in
the world, with US$400 average income per person per year. They have
no freedoms of religion, of expression, of forming labor unions or
political parties to compete with the Communists. The people of
Vietnam is just modern-day slaves to the obstinate, shameless, corrupt
and murderous leaders of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

What the leaders of the Vietnamese Communist Party are now doing with
the proposed legislation HR-427 in the US is to act like the
remorseless criminals, robbing and raping the victims, then loudly and
aggressively blaming the victims for the crimes, hoping to bully the
rest of the world into complying with its terms!

We urge all conscientious people of the world to work very closely
with your respective governments to make sure your hard-earned tax
money will not be given to the corrupt, extremely wealthy and
supremely powerful members of the Vietnamese Communist Party to
finance their lavish lifestyles, and to procure means to further
oppress and abuse the people of Vietnam.

We urge that we all work to make sure all aids to Vietnam are focused
on improving human rights for the people of Vietnam, are fully
accountable, and are strongly managed, with clearly-stated goals,
reward and punishment incentives, for the leaders of the Vietnamese
Communist Party.

We urge that all conscientious people of the world organize to effect
immediate expulsion of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from the
United Nations' membership for its blatant, continuous and willful
violations of the UN's Universal Declarations of Human Rights and its
covenants on political and civil rights.

Sincerely,

Tam D. Doan
Liberty Flame

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Vietnam, US bolster bilateral co-operation

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan has asked the US to bolster cooperation
with Vietnam to resolve post-war issues with a focus on the
consequences of Agent Orange.

During his visit to Washington D.C from Dec. 4-7, Vu Khoan held talks
and met with US Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security
Advisor Codoleezza Rice, Trade Representative Robert Zoellick,
Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, Acting Secretary of Commerce
Samuel Bodman, Senator Chuck Hagel, Representative Roy Blunt, and
leaders of major corporations and media organisations.

In a frank atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding, the
Vietnamese and US officials expressed their delight at recent positive
developments in bilateral relations. Both sides praised the efficiency
of the Vietnam-US Bilateral Trade Agreement, which has, in two years,
made the US Vietnam's largest trading partner. Trade between the two
countries now reaches around US$ 5 billion.

Deputy PM Khoan and US officials shared the view that potential for
mutually-beneficial co-operation between the two countries is great,
requiring them both to exert more effort to realise it fully.

To this end, they discussed measures to secure stable, long-term
co-operation between the two countries, emphasising respect for
independence, sovereignty, and mutually beneficial co-operation on an
equal footing.

Regarding differences and disputes arising in bilateral relations,
they believed that these matters should be resolved through
constructive dialogues and mutual understanding.

US leaders and members of congress lauded Vietnam's achievements in
its renewal process, as well as its goodwill and cooperation in the
search for MIAs, and in the fight against terrorism and trans-national
crime.

They affirmed their support for Vietnam's accession to the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), and expressed their willingness to expand
co-operation with the country in trade, technology, agriculture,
education and human resource development.

Vu Khoan reiterated Vietnam's foreign policy of openness and active
international integration, as well as efforts to promote equal and
mutually beneficial co-operation with the US.

However, Vietnam opposed any attempt to interfere in its internal
affairs, particularly Resolution H.R 427, which was recently adopted
by the House of Representatives. Demands were also made that the US
rescind the Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Vietnam, Khoan said.

Meanwhile, in an interview granted to the Washington Times on
Saturday, Khoan said Vietnam wishes to develop stable relations with
the US, and wants the Americans to change their thinking about
Vietnam. Both Vietnam and the US have moved a long way toward becoming
friendly states from enemies in the past.

Khoan said his visit this time aimed to build more stable bilateral
relations with the US through discussions with US leaders. He said the
two countries have been cooperating well in fighting terrorism, even
in sharing information and experience in this effort. He hoped that
the US would better cooperate in stopping terrorist acts caused by
some overseas Vietnamese residing in the US. He cited some cases as
throwing explosives into the Vietnamese Embassies in Thailand and the
Philippines in 2000, and hijacking a Thai aircraft in an attempt to
drop bombs in Vietnam in 2001.

Khoan said the US should cooperate with Vietnam in fighting terrorism,
and take further steps to stop such terrorist acts in the near future.
He condemned the recognition of the former Saigon puppet regime’s
flag as the flag of the overseas Vietnamese community in 21 cities and
Louisiana State.

Khoan also called on the US to view Vietnam as a nation emerging in
stability and prosperity. "We wish to develop relations with the US on
the basis of equality and mutual benefit", Khoan said.