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Coordinating Committee – A Call for Democracy in Vietnam
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P.O. Box 25601, San Mateo, CA 94402
Website: ACallForDemocracy.org
Email: ACFD@ACallForDemocracy.org
Press Release No. 10
April 15, 2007
Democracy, freedom, and human rights are the values most cherished by, and of immediate concern to, the Vietnamese people. Yet, the Vietnamese Communist authorities are trying to blatantly rob them.
After tricking the world into giving them access to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and into allowing then to host the APEC Summit in Hanoi last November, and after luring the U.S. into giving them the Permanent Normal Trade Relations status (PNTR), the Vietnamese Communist authorities have slowly tightened their control over the Vietnamese people. Evidences of this policy include the recent brutal trial and sentencing of Father Nguyen Van Ly, an internationally known religious leader and political dissident (see photograph attached) to 8 years in prison, and the arrest and imminent trial of such democracy advocates as Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thi Cong Nhan, and Le Quoc Quan.
As everyone knows, Vietnamese courts are only tools of the Vietnamese Communist Party. They don’t serve the people but are subservient to the Party because Article 4 of the Vietnamese Constitution gives the absolute power to the Party, over the National Assembly, the people, and the law.
The image of Father Ly being brutally muzzled in the People’s Court of Hue-Thua Thien on March 30, 2007 has awaken the whole world to the true nature of the Vietnamese Communist regime. More than anything else, this image has eloquently testified to the savagery of this regime, which has resorted to all the means available to suffocate the voices of conscience and the appeal for desperately needed political reform in Vietnam. This is an affront not only to the Vietnamese people but to the whole world.
We call upon you to join us in the just struggle for democracy, freedom, and human rights in Vietnam by circulating this poster to everyone who might be able to help us.
Coordinating Committee – A Call for Democracy in Vietnam
· Đỗ Như Điện, San Diego, CA (Tel.: 760-451-9379)
· Ngô Quốc Sĩ, San Jose, CA (Tel.: 408-946-8551)
· Hùynh Lương Thiện, San Francisco, CA (Tel.: 415-673-8115)
· Nguyễn Thanh Trang, San Diego, CA (Tel.: 858-484-1428)
Address: P.O. Box 25601, San Mateo, CA 94402
Email: ACFD@ACallForDemocracy.org