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Unfounded allegation about Vietnam's Human rights (Part1)
Unfounded allegation about Vietnam's Human rights (Part1)
12/8/14
On July 26, 2014, the BBC Vietnamese
posted an article titled “Human
Rights Watch wants Australia
to press Vietnam
on human rights”. At the beginning of the article, the author wrote: “Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Australia
to put pressure on the Government of
Vietnam in bilateral human rights dialogue. To get the “convincement”, they
invoked the so-called “Human Rights Watch report”. According to them,
the July 24 announcement of HRW called on Australia to put pressure on Hanoi to
perform what they call “Specific
improvement including actions such as expeditiously
release political prisoners, stop
restricting the rights to freedom of expression, meeting,
association and religious freedom”.
Next, this article mentioned: “In the HRW report
submitted to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Trade of Australia, this organization
recommended Australia to push the Government of
Vietnam make progress in three major areas
of concerning including political prisoners, freedom of religion and forced labor in drug
rehabilitation centers. According to the article, “There are about 150
to 200 Vietnamese activists
and bloggers in
prison for practicing their basic rights”.
Cite only a few paragraphs in
this article for readers
see that these arguments are
just unfounded and has no real understanding of social life in Vietnam. First
of all, Vietnam does
not have the so-called “political prisoners”. There is not any the
phrase of “political prisoners” in the legal system
of Vietnam
from the Constitution to the bylaws. In Vietnam,
only those who break the law, violating the rights and legitimate interests of people will be sanctioned
by authorities in accordance with the provisions of law. In
Paragraph 2, Article
11 of the Constitution of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam stipulates:
“All acts against the independence,
sovereignty, unity and territorial
integrity, against the cause of
building and defending the nation
are severely punished”. This is not a private
affair of Vietnam.
In many other countries in
the world, every large or small, powerful
or economically country whether in Asia, Europe, the Americas or Africa... all enact certain
laws to manage social state. Based on enacted system of legislation, the government of each country in the world manage and control the country in accordance
with the provisions of law.
Moreover, the law expresses the will and aspirations of all strata of society,
fully reflects the traditional culture of each nation. So acting
against the independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity, preventing the
progressive development of the country,
the nation will
be punished.
It clearly shows that the
State of Vietnam as well as others
in the world are implementing
social management by the legal system. The political program for
national construction in the transitional period to socialism (supplemented and developed in 2011) was
passed by the XI Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam: “Our country is the State of socialist and jurisdiction of the people, by the
people and for the people. All
state power belongs to the people”;
“State serves the people, closely connects with the
people and fully implements the people's democratic rights...; having mechanisms
and measures to control, prevent and punish
bureaucracy, corruption, irresponsibility, abuse of power, infringement of democratic rights of citizens; society of
discipline, all actions severely
infringed upon the interests of the country and the people must be
punished...”. Thus, the legal system of
Vietnam
as well as the policies
and guidelines of the Communist Party of Vietnam has never appeared concept
called “political prisoners”? It's
funny when someone gets no fact to coerce others to do. Under the
provisions of the law of Vietnam,
it is slander.
We think that if the above article’s author do not understand the fact in Vietnam and have no knowledge of the laws of Vietnam,
this is also the opportunity for him
to learn more. The
people of Vietnam have the phrase of “travel
broadens the mind” so please come
to Vietnam
to learn futher about
Vietnam
and more important is to understand the
essence of social life in Vietnam.(To be continued)
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All comments [ 10 ]
I rejected exiles’ allegations about the mistreatment of dissidents and minorities.
Hanoi had made achievements. Religious activities had increased and ethnic minorities are “participating in an increasingly equal manner in social and political life”.
We only acknowledge shortcomings, including “wrongdoings” by some civil servants with a limited understanding of human rights, government is aware that challenges remain.
We find it unfortunate that there have been unfounded reports, and reject allegations of ill will about democracy and human rights in Vietnam
Vietnam is still victim of hostile activities like terrorism, sabotage, acts to destabilise the country and infringe upon national security and territorial integrity
there had been improvement in some areas of civil and political rights, such as religious freedom.
Over thousands of years of national building and defense, the Vietnamese people have made untold sacrifices to gain the fundamental human rights, namely the right to live in independence and freedom, the right to food, clothing, housing, education and dignity.
Vietnam should help the world public better understand the Vietnamese tradition in protecting and promoting human rights and the current human rights implementation in Vietnam.
the Vietnamese nation has asserted that the most sacred and fundamental human rights are the rights to live in independence, freedom, to determine one's own destiny.
Vietnam has constantly striven for the liberation of the human being and for an equal, democratic and civilized society.
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