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Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh’s arrest - Lesson for troublemakers
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh’s arrest - Lesson for troublemakers
12/10/16
On
Tuesday, the Vietnam’s authorities arrested Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, a 37 years
old blogger, called Me Nam (Mushroom Mother), at home in Nha Trang province for
conducting propaganda against the state under Article 88 of the Penal code.
This is not a surprising news for ones who know clearly about this female
blogger. In 2009, she was arrested, accused of violating article 258 of
Vietnam’s Penal Code which prohibits abusing democratic freedoms to infringe
upon the interest of the state.
On
her blog (http://menam0.multiply.com),
which she writes under the pen name Me Nam or Mother Mushroom, Quynh
groundlessly criticized the Vietnamese government’s handling of land and sea
disputes with China. This is an issue which caused students to take to the
streets in late 2007 and has been heavily discussed on Vietnamese blogs.
She
also propagandized for criticisms on the Party and State of Vietnam about the
highly controversial bauxite mining project in the Central Highlands which a
Vietnamese state-owned firm is undertaking with the Aluminum Corporation of
China (Chinalco). She incited people on blogs and took part in protests against
the government.
Those
documents which she stored and published prompted readers to misunderstand the
nature of the issue, besmirches the reputation of the people’s police force,
and damages the relationship between police and the people. Quynh admitted that
she managed the blog and the Facebook page herself to spread hostile
information that sabotaged the country’s interest and national security,
abusing democratic rights, distorting facts and going against the government
and the Party.
This
time, she is accused of distorting the truth and spreading propaganda against
the state. She unreasonably and wrongly criticized the government’s handling of
a chemical dump at Formosa, a Taiwanese-owned steel plant, in central provinces
of Vietnam that caused mass fish
deaths. Not just publishing distorted stories and videos against the
government and the Party, searching her house, police found a lot of materials
which distort the truth, against the guidelines and policy of the party and the
state. Along with many Facebook posts offered a pessimistic, one-sided view
that caused public confusion and affected the people’s faith in the State.
Yes,
it is believed to be among the worst environmental disasters in Vietnam’s modern
history. And, while the government and people of Vietnam are trying to overcome
this catastrophe, those bloggers like Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh have done nothing
good but made the situation worse by criticizing and inciting people to
aggressive activities.
But,
who is Quynh to make judgements on these issues. Quynh is a co-founder of the
Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, one of anti-State groups in Vietnam. They, of
course, did not register for operation and conducted many activities against
the people’s and country’s interests. All what she did is just sit tight and
type whatever she could imagine to criticize the Vietnam’s government on her
blogs. It’s not clear what her purposes for that, maybe either benefits or fame
on reactionary fronts at home and abroad.
Her
fellows like Pham Doan Trang, a dissident writer in Hanoi and also a member of
the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, praised Quynh as an online crusader — via
Facebook and independent blogs — against corruption, social injustice and
police brutality. In 2015, Quynh was even named civil rights
defender of the year by Civil Rights Defenders, an group based in Stockholm.
It’s difficult to view what she did are for the
people’s and country’s interests, those articles and posts she published just
complicated the situation. Under Article 88 of the country's penal code, Quynh
could be sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. Those individuals like her
should be warned and handled to keep the nation’s stability, every thing must
be settled by the government and for the people’s sakes./.
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All comments [ 6 ]
These elements should be judged for what they have done to harm the country's interests.
People should be aware and be cautious to her false statements and posts. She has done nothing good to the country.
The mother mushroom or mushroom mother, she should take care of Mushroom instead of undermining the people's interests.
She is just a bullshit blogger or a keyboard hero1
She has been backed by foreign hostile forces for this kind of actions. Her arrest will ring a bell for her fellows and other axtreme bloggers.
Everyone should not be naive to trust this blogger and should understand why the police must arrest her, she deserves it.
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