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Thông Cáo Báo Chí

V/ v BIỂU T̀NH

Ngày 26 tháng 11 năm 2006

 

- Nhận định rằng việc TT Bush để Bộ Ngoại Hoa kỳ gỡ CPC, biện pháp cần phải quan tâm đặc biệt cho chế độ CS Hà nội, bất chấp đề nghị của Ủy Hội Tự Do Tôn Giáo Thế Giới của Chính Phủ Hoa kỳ, là một việc làm không thích hợp. HT Quảng Độ và nhiều lănh tụ tôn giáo độc lập trong nước đă xem đó là sự hy sinh những nguyên tắc tự do, dân chủ Hoa kỳ cho quyền lợi kinh tế không thích đáng.

- Nhận định rằng từ ngày Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa kỳ gỡ CPC cho CS Hà nội để TT Bush có món quà tặng cho CS Hà nội khi đi dự Hội nghị Thượng Đỉnh APEC, CS Hà Nội đă tăng cường nỗ lực đàn áp một cách tàn bạo những nhà đấu tranh cho tự do tôn giáo và những nhà đấu tranh cho tự do, dân chủ, nhân quyền ở VN.

 

Chúng tôi những người Mỹ gốc Việt thuộc nhiều tôn giáo, chánh đảng, hội đoàn, và nhân sĩ trong cộng đồng người Mỹ gốc Việt, thể hiện ư chí và hành động qua cuộc biểu t́nh tại Little Saigon ngày Chủ Nhật 26 tháng 11, năm 2006 với những quyết nghị sau:

 

-   Đồng thanh phản đối CS Hà nội đă đàn áp tàn bạo những nhà đấu tranh cho tự do, dân chủ, nhân quyền VN, trước , trong và sau Hội Nghị APEC.

-   Đồng kư kháng thư phản đối việc gỡ CPC cho CS Hà nội trong khi CS Hà nội đă và đang tăng cường nỗ lực đàn áp các tôn giáo thuần túy và độc lập.

 

 

Làm tại Lille Saigon ngày 26 Tháng 11 Năm 2006

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                                                                                                 Lư Ṭng Bá, Cựu Tướng Lănh QL/ VNCH

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT

GEORGE W. BUSH

On the occasion that Vietnam was removed from the CPC list

 

Dear President George W. Bush,

 

We, Vietnamese Americans, are very disappointed by your decision to remove Vietnam from the list of Countries of Particular Concern for religious freedom. Vietnam is still very repressive of its religious and political dissidents. These are some of the blatant violations of religious freedom, some of them happened during the APEC Summit:

 

- Ho Chi Minh City Police City prohibited UBCV monks from receiving foreigners until APEC leaders leave Vietnam. Any monks violating this order would be strictly punished.

- Buddhist nun Thich Nu Dam Thoa was arrested in Hanoi on 14th November and was detained in a “Camp for social elements” in Bac Giang, Northern Vietnam. She is accused of being on a list of people allegedly seeking to meet US President George W. Bush during the APEC Summit.

- Last month, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh had been interrogated and beaten almost to death and serious injuries were inflicted on his body.

- Protestant house churches are obliged to renew their registration every year, and they must submit full lists of their members to the authorities.

- The government places “observers” to monitor church activities or force leadership changes. Over 4,000 house churches are not yet registered, thus illegal. Some 500 have applied for registration, but have not received a government decision.

- Local authorities in Hai Duong Province, for example, use administrative measures to mistreat Christians, e.g. denial of citizenship rights, residence permits, denial of passport for travel or work overseas.

- Reports from the Central and Northern Highlands indicate that Montagnards and other ethnic Christians continue to be pressured and even tortured to renounce their faith.

- Vietnamese government still meddles strongly into the teaching and selection of the Vietnamese Catholic church's priests.

- Millions of Vietnamese are still suffering persecution for their peaceful religious beliefs.

 

We, Vietnamese Americans, would like to express our concern for the policies of the United States toward Vietnam, so that you would not send a wrong message to the communists, and we wish that President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continue to monitor Vietnamese government’s actions on their citizens closely, and The United States should issue appropriate measures to discourage Vietnamese government from repressing its citizens in their religious worshipping and educational activities. Those measures might include putting back Vietnam on the CPC list.

 

Respectfully,

OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE

CONDOLEEZZA RICE

On the occasion that Vietnam was removed from the CPC list

 

Dear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,

 

We, Vietnamese Americans, are very disappointed by your decision to remove Vietnam from the list of Countries of  Particular Concern for religious freedom. Vietnam is still very repressive of its religious and political dissidents. These are some of the blatant violations of religious freedom, some of them happened during the APEC Summit:

 

- Ho Chi Minh City Police City prohibited UBCV monks from receiving foreigners until APEC leaders leave Vietnam. Any monks violating this order would be strictly punished.

- Buddhist nun Thich Nu Dam Thoa was arrested in Hanoi on 14th November and was detained in a “Camp for social elements” in Bac Giang, Northern Vietnam. She is accused of being on a list of people allegedly seeking to meet US President George W. Bush during the APEC Summit.

- Last month, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh had been interrogated and beaten almost to death and serious injuries were inflicted on his body.

- Protestant house churches are obliged to renew their registration every year, and they must submit full lists of their members to the authorities.

- The government places “observers” to monitor church activities or force leadership changes. Over 4,000 house churches are not yet registered, thus illegal. Some 500 have applied for registration, but have not received a government decision.

- Local authorities in Hai Duong Province, for example, use administrative measures to mistreat Christians, e.g. denial of citizenship rights, residence permits, denial of passport for travel or work overseas.

- Reports from the Central and Northern Highlands indicate that Montagnards and other ethnic Christians continue to be pressured and even tortured to renounce their faith.

- Vietnamese government still meddles strongly into the teaching and selection of the Vietnamese Catholic church's priests.

- Millions of Vietnamese are still suffering persecution for their peaceful religious beliefs.

 

We, Vietnamese Americans, would like to express our concern for the policies of the United States toward Vietnam, so that you would not send a wrong message to the communists, and we wish that You and the State Department would continue to monitor Vietnamese government’s actions on their citizens closely, and The United States should issue appropriate measures to discourage Vietnamese government from repressing its citizens in their religious worshipping and educational activities. Those measures might include putting back Vietnam on the CPC list.

 

Respectfully,