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Group of U.S. Congressmen has once again misunderstood Vietnam
Group of U.S. Congressmen has once again misunderstood Vietnam
6/3/17
Once again, some extreme U.S. Congressmen have supported for an
act that goes against the reality of human rights situation in Vietnam. On
March 1st, 2017 Congressman Alan Lowenthal and other co-chairs Congressmen
Chris Smith, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and members Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Lou
Correa and Rep. Gerry Connolly of so-called the U.S. Congressional Vietnam
Caucus joined together in a letter to Secretary Tillerson written by
Congressman Lowenthal himself.
In the letter, Congressman Lowenthal highlighted some of the
challenges in Vietnam. These include human rights abuses such as numerous
Vietnamese activists being held as prisoners of conscience by the Vietnamese
government, from human rights lawyers to bloggers to religious leaders. But who
are they? Nguyen Cong Chinh, a Lutheran pastor, Nguyen Van Dai, a law-violated
lawyer, Thich Quang Do, an extreme Buddha’s dignitary, that all were jailed for
violating Vietnamese laws and causing chaos and damages to the country’s
national security and have been handled in accordance with the Vietnamese laws.
Another challenge highlighted in the letter is a massive
environmental catastrophe in Vietnam caused by illegal dumping of toxic
materials from a plant owned by the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a
Taiwanese company operating in Vietnam. This unexpected disaster totally
belongs to Vietnam’s internal affairs, and if the country might want other
state engaging like that. The Vietnamese government has responsed quickly to
recover environment and support the people in the four central provinces. But
these Congressmen do not know or do not want to know. According to them, in the
letter, they claimed that Vietnam’s authorities have refused to investigate the
matter, and crackdowned on public protests regarding the event all harmed some
of the poorest and most vulnerable Vietnamese. That’s baseless and so absurd.
This move
brings no good for Vietnamese people and for Vietnam-U.S. relationship. We hope
that Mr. Rex Tillerson and public opinions would be vigilant enough to see
through all this nonsense. These allegation just nourish for hostile forces and
anti-Vietnamese elements to cry out for their benefits. These Congressmen
should focus on their jobs to facilitate the two country’s relations not to
interfere with an independent state, even under the name of human rights and
democracy./.
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All comments [ 3 ]
These congressmen should come to Vietnam to see the reality, the achievements on human rights and religious freedom the country has made recent years.
I think there are some U.S. extreme congressmen are stubborn to accept Vietnam's developments on human rights and democracy.
Stop using human rights as an allegation to intervening in other country's internal affairs.
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