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Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and combating the exploitation of ethnic issues in our country (Part 1)

23/8/17
Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities along with combating the making use of ethnic issues in our country at present are theoretical, practical, fundamental and urgent issues, which need to be fully understood and synchronously, comprehensively, and persistently implemented. This is an organic component of the cause of comprehensive development of all ethnic groups, protection and development of legitimate human rights, contributing to build all people's defense posture in connection with building all people's security posture in ethnic minority areas.
The interaction between ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and fighting against the exploitation of ethnic issues
The rights of ethnic minorities are generally classified into two catagories: one of common rights of each member of each ethnic group and the other of collective rights applied to ethnic minority community. Effective ensuring human rights in the area of ethnic minorities is a vividly practical and legal evidence that refutes distortion, allegations and sabotage of hostile forces; the best way to protect the truth, and justice of the Party, State and people in the care and protection of legitimate human rights; the proactive prevention and response to all risks arising from ethnic issues to avoid creating excuse for the enemy’s sabotage; an environment that helps ethnic groups (majority and minority) to develop in a healthy manner, shape genuine national spirit, build solidarity, equality and respect and harmoniously settle relations among ethnic groups and help each other to develop; the resistance of ethnic minorities in face of all distortion and sabotage activities of hostile forces to divide and split the national unity bloc. Effective combating hostile forces’ exploitation of the ethnic issue will create a stable environment for people to build the unity bloc, equality and mutual help for development. The struggle in the field of ideology has the role of nipping in the bud ideology and theory of extreme nationalism, separatism, helping nations to shape genuine national consciousness; merging human rights with citizen rights, rights and obligations, individual rights of each member with collective rights, collective rights with national rights. Effective fighting helps the Party and State affirm the legitimacy in multilateral and bilateral forums, consolidate position and prestige, thereby take advantage of international opinion and resources while concentrating domestic resources for investment in the development of ethnic groups. Conflicts and divisions not only make environment of ethnic groups less stable, and do not pool investment resources for development, but also lead to dispersed human and material resources, causing disturbance in planning, socio-economic development plan, and missing development opportunities. Combating also implies the internal fight, especially against misconceptions, and wrong behavior of a part of cadres and people in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities. This will ensure that the implementation of ethnic policies is implemented in a synchronous, comprehensive and consistent manner with high sense of responsibility and awareness of the entire political system, majority and minority ethnic groups, and of all economic sectors. 
Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and fighting against schemes to take advantage of ethnic issues are unanimous in the common goals, leadership and management, in unified national and ethnic interests and use of forces. The common goal of securing the rights of ethnic minorities and combating the exploitation of ethnic affairs is to build a prosperous people, strong country, democratic and civilized society, firmly defend independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, protect the Party, State, people and the socialist regime, safeguard the cause of renewal, industrialization and modernization, national interests, environment of peace and political stability, national security, social order and safety for national development, cultural identity of the Vietnamese nation. Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and fighting against the use of ethnic issues in Vietnam are led by the Party, managed by the state with the participation of the entire political system from setting out lines to implementation, making national interests primary element; and local interests are inseparable from national interests. 

However, ensuring and fighting, each has its own content due to differences in specific objectives, targets, specialized forces and specialized working methods. As far as immediate objectives are concerned, if ensuring ethnic rights is to respect and protect the legitimate rights of ethnic minorities, fighting is to foil schemes, maneuvers and activities of hostile forces to take advantage of national, religious and human right issues to sabotage national unity, and incite extreme nationalism and separatism. In terms of targets, if the targets of ethnic right guarantee are ethnic minorities including the collective ethnic groups and members of each ethnic community, the targets of the fight are external enemies who take advantage of ethnic minority issues to carry out sabotage activities, internal reactionaries which lend a hand to external hostile forces to conduct acts against national interests, and divide the national unity bloc. Meanwhile specialized forces ensure the right of ethnic minorities; organizations and individuals have the tasks of organizing and implementing policies on economic, cultural and social development and national defense and security, foreign policy, ecological environment protection. Each force has its own role and position in implementing multisectoral/intersectoral policies. Of these forces the specialised agency on ethnic minority affairs has an extremely critical role. Though multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary forces are needed to combat capitalization of ethnic issues, the core team must include the public security force, people's army, ideological theorists, journalists in the field of ideology and theory. Regarding specialized working methods, if the rights of ethnic minorities are guaranteed by economic, administrative and civil measures, through policies and laws on respect, protection and care for human rights, programs and projects for investment in socio-economic development, consolidation of the political system, protection and promotion of cultural identity and ecological environment, the combat against capitalization of ethnic issues requires combination of armed and non-armed measures, including the specialized measures of armed forces to foil attempts to set up connection, basis and rally forces to split the national unity bloc, instigate subversion, and separatism.
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