Viet Nam Human Rights
RSF: Need to be honest and objective!
16/5/15
In recent years, Reporters
Without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has often issued incautious and biased assessments
of Vietnam’s
press freedom situation. Early this year, RSF continued its judgements
distorting Vietnam’s
press freedom situation in spite of truth and reality. In its annual reports,
RSF rated Vietnam
as one of the worst countries for press freedom.
RSF is a France-based international non-profit,
non-governmental organization that
promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press. The organization has
consultant status at the United Nations
On website williamblum.org of American expert
William Blum in January 20th 2015, there is an article “Murdering
journalists... them and us”. The article mentions some events related to
freedom of press showing Western hypocrisy. There are cluster of murders of
journalist and assaults of media agencies like assault on Serbia’s state-run
media in 1999, Al-Jazeera’s office in 2003 in Baghdad killing 3 reporters and
injuring 4 others, in the same year, Palestine hotel in Baghdad killing two
foreign cameramen, in 2007 two Reuters’ reporters killed in Iraq, etc. RSF
always claims its missions are to continuously monitor attacks on freedom of
information worldwide; denounce any such attacks in the media; act in
cooperation with governments to fight censorship and laws aimed at restricting
freedom of information; morally and financially assist persecuted journalists,
as well as their families and offer material assistance to war correspondents
in order to enhance their safety, but, it likely ignores all these incidents. For that, it’s not so strange when
some accuses on RSF said that this organization had discriminations and
selection on events of journalists. The selection is likely directed by the
U.S. State Department to ignore anti-press incidents in the U.S. and its
allies.
So, it is ironical when comparing “RSF’s
supreme cause” with incident of a Sudanese reporter photographer who came back
home after 6 years imprisoned in Guantanamo prison which belongs to the U.S. on
Vietnamses VOA in 2010. According to the news of incidents, cameraman Al-Haj of
Al-Jazeera who had been detained by Pakistan’s military in 2001 came
back home after 6 years being held without any indictment. After being
released, he told Al-Jazeera even mouse was treated more humanely than Guantanamo’s detainees,
and it was worse day by day. Where is RSF - who always self-proclaims as the
guard of justice and freedom for press? Why doesn’t it speak for these
journalists? Maybe it is busy in interfering and slandering other countries’s
press freedom situation. This behavior is a symbol of implementing conception
of double standard. It is prejudice, unfair and immoral against the principle
that all are equal and free, especially before laws.
To Vietnam, not just Vietnamese VOA, RFA, BBC…
always interview Benjamin Ismail who is RSF’s envoy in Asian and help him to
falsely accuse the Party and State of Vietnam, and request Vietnam to do this
or that for press freedom. And, dispite the real development of Vietnam press, RSF’s reports shamelessly
continue their allegations about Vietnam’s press freedom.
There is an obvious truth that through all
this years, RSF always ignores robust development on all aspects of Vietnamese
press and media. According to statistics of Ministry of Information and
Communication, to 2014, Vietnam
has 845 press agencies with 1,111 publications, 67 broadcasting stations and a
large number of television channels, a lot of electronic magazines and
newspapers, news websites… Also, according to the Vietnamese Journalist
Association, there are 21,688 members operating in 63 provinces with 19
inter-branches and 206 branches. And, there are now 18,000 reporters granted
press cards.
Though, there’s still short-comings in
operating process, such as violating rules and principles of journalism, intensifying
content to attract viewers, spreading contents that nagatively affect social
culture and national traditions…, Vietnam’s press has done good jobs in
speaking for the State, reflecting people’s aspirations, protecting civilians’
rights and bridging the gap between the government and people. Vietnam’s press
also plays pioneer in fight against corruption and waste. Those statistics are
undeniable facts, but RSF has rejected them, because of admiting the truth, RSF
will no longer have excuses to distort and slander against the Party and State
of Vietnam.
To organize and manage all social activities
and relations in harmony with country’s development direction, each country has
its own laws. To extent of profession, law system sets specific requirements for
each jobs like license, card or qualifications. For journalism, not every one
is assumed reporter or journalist if he or she does not meet criterions. So, we
can not consider bloggers, facebookers, twitters or any members of social
networks or websites as reporters or journalists. But, RSF seems not to
acknowledge that, with its ploy of deceiving the public, RSF has turned these
elements into “journalists” in an attempt to propagandize and falsely accuse
the State of Vietnam of violating press freedom to protect some offenders who are
“conducting propaganda against the State of Vietnam”, “abusing rights of
freedom and democracy to infringe upon the interests of the State, the
legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens”… For these
manners of RSF, we can not believe in any allegations and reports of this
organization about Vietnam’s
freedom of press. Prestige and reputation of any organization build on an
honest, fair and objective attitute. Whether RSF reviews its prestige and image
towards the public?./.
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All comments [ 13 ]
This organization is not trustful, and we can assert that it is a tool of the U.S. and Western countries to spread their value of human rights and freedom.
Right, RSF, HRW, Amnesty International or RFA, RFI, BBC, they are all means of propaganda served for America and the West.
Just don't care about its bullshit reports and allegations!
Vietnam’s press has done good jobs in speaking for the State, reflecting people’s aspirations, protecting civilians’ rights and bridging the gap between the government and people.
We must have programs, campaigns to propagandize against RSF's distorted reports and its biased activities.
So shameful that RSF claim themself as a guard for journalists and freedom of press!
I agree with you, Hoang Lan, we must protest against RSF and any other organizations that operate opposite to their objectives and slander our country's situation of freedom.
It’s not so strange when some accuses on RSF said that this organization had discriminations and selection on events of journalists.
Say one thing and do another, RSF's words and deeds are inconsistent and untrustful. Why does any of its reports have value and influence?
RSF has turned those elements like bloggers Me Nam, Nguoi Lot Gach,... into “journalists” in an attempt to propagandize and falsely accuse the State of Vietnam of violating press freedom. So unreasonable!
It's better to stop hostile actions like that, beacause nobody will believe that in the digital era.
in Vietnam, there are too many kind of newspapers. Vietnam's also one of countries with the most internet users in the world.
in any country, every behaviors must obey laws, otherwise disordered society
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