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Warnings: Illegal activities of Duong Van Minh faith’s organization(Part II and End)
Warnings: Illegal activities of Duong Van Minh faith’s organization(Part II and End)
14/5/17
Harmful activities
Having the same manifestations, Duong Van Minh
was quoted saying in the year 2000 the earth will explode, people will die,
Duong Van Minh followers will be saved by Jesus; they will live happily in the
heaven, they do not have to work for food, will become literate without
learning, the dead will be resurrected, they will be young forever, ailments
will be cured, Hmongs will have their own country. Who wants to ask Duong Van
Minh to offer prayers for the sick will have to bring him cash, candies,
cigarettes and other things of value for the prayer service.
Following his teachings, about
100 Hmong from Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang and Thai Nguyen went to Hanoi to
demand the freedom to practice their Duong Van Minh religion, causing chaos and
instability along the society. Believers have brought him money and gifts,
hoping that he would call on spirits to cure illness, and many adherent
families stopped sending their children to school. Duong Van Minh and his
believers have also illegally erected many sheds for storing funeral objects
(SSFO) concurrently in four Provinces Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang and Thai
Nguyen which is illegal and wasteful.
Through
his activities, Duong Van Minh has always proclaimed as King and welcoming God.
Those are activities propagating superstition, forming ideology of separatism,
autonomy, interwoven with activities involved in belief and religion, to dupe
people to make illicit profits benefiting the leaders of the organization.
These activities caused disturbance regarding beliefs of the Hmong in
particular, and thought, economic, cultural and social life of the peoples
living in the region in general; they affected the trust of a part in the
population in the Party and State and the healthy religious activities, and
caused division amongst ethnics.
For that,
the authorities have conducted many measures to restrain and stop Duong Van
Minh and his followers. Twice in 1990 and 2013, Ha Tuyen security authorities
arrested Duong Van Minh and several followers, some even were chiefs of
hamlets, like Đào Dình Hoãng, Dương Văn Tu, Lý Văn Dinh, Thào Quán Mua, Thào A
Cháng, Hoàng Văn Sang, Hoàng Văn Phùng, Hoàng Văn Sinh, Hoàng Văn Giang, Sùng
Văn Tu, Đào Văn Nỏ, Lý Văn Dũng, Lý Văn Anh, etc., and sentenced them to years
in prison for charges of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the
interests of the State, the public order, the administrative work of state
agencies; undermining the trust of part of Hmong ethnics in the implementation
of Party’s guidelines, State’s policies and laws; damaging the prestige, the
effective management and administration of government, agencies, committees,
branches, society organizations, the fine customs and traditions of the ethnics;
causing disorder in the local area, bad rumors in the society, internal disunity
of the Hmong fellows; spreading superstition with serious consequence and defrauding
others under Articles 157, 199, 141 of the criminal code.
The Duong Van Minh organization
has taken advantage of the trust of Hmong people to mobilize, entice and cheat
them, appropriating their money, time and labor causing unsafe political,
social order and safety in the local area. Duong Van Minh organizations
continued illegal campaigning, urging Hmongs to build funeral homes in the name
of having a place for storing funeral objects. This is an action against the
customs and traditions, disturbing the daily life of Hmong people in the
villages and in violation of State regulations. The Duong Van Minh believers
had also obstructed the dismantlement, and had photographed and filmed the
dismantlement to serve the plot against the government. Going in crowd for
complaining to the People’s Committee of the village, district and province had
badly affected the political security and public order.
The activities of illegal Duong
Van Minh organization have violated the law of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam. The illegal construction of the SSFO must be dismantled; who incites
people to build the sheds or obstructs the dismantling of the sheds should be
dealt with according to law.
To fight with this illegal
faith’s organization, the government and local authorities must carry out the
following measures: - Best informing about the areas and people participating
in the illegal Duong Van Minh organization; - Issuing plan for intimidating,
summoning and fighting those who support Duong Van Minh organization; -
Preventing hotspots with complex problems of security and public order in the
province territory; - Preventing hostile forces misusing this organization to
serve their plots; - Instructing a properly implementation of regulation on
temporary sheltering and absence, expelling from the province those, who are
not local residents or people coming for temporary sheltering without
legitimate reason; - Close coordination provinces’ authorities where the
illegal Duong Van Minh organization operates to prevent and eradicate this
organization.
In conclusion, the Duong Van Minh faith is
absolutely not a religion, it is just an illegal group operating under the name
of religious organization. Those who have activities which are abusing the
right to freedom of religion and belief, who have propagated slanders against
the objectives and guidelines of the Party, and against the policies and laws
of the State, which will affect social order, cultural traditions of the
localities, should be sanctioned according to the laws and regulations./.
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All comments [ 7 ]
Therefore, we have to resolutely fight against and eradicate this illegal organization.
The government arrested at least 10 Duong Van Minh believers and charged most of them with "abusing the religious freedom right" under Article 258 of Vietnam's Criminal Code.
A number of individuals have been using their authority, religious doctrine, and superstition, to coerce and mislead people, causing serious consequences in a number of locations.
The authorities need to promote activities to fight against the illegal Duong Van Minh organization and actively combating and resolving those in violation of the law.
According to the article 258 of the Vietnam’s Criminal Code, Mình and hí followers have abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State.
It's dangerous that some believers of the illegal Duong Van Minh organization have followed him and didn’t allow their children to go to school or to receive state’s assistance.
They need to be strictly punished!
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