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Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Independence-Freedom-Happiness
Urgent Report Number 1 from private citizen Hoang Minh Chinh.
Honorable:
Honorable:
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am a private citizen of Vietnam, Hoang Minh Chinh, born on November 16, 1922 in Nam Dinh, Vietnam. Former General Secretary of Vietnamese Democratic Party, former Director of Vietnamese Institute of Philosophy. I wrote this letter to report an urgent incident as follows:
After more than two months staying in the United States for two severe cancers treatment, I returned to Vietnam on November 13, 2005, and I stayed at my daughter's house for rehabilitation, addressed 96/5 Le Thi Rieng Street, ward Ben Thanh, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
On November 19, 2005 afternoon, a ward Ben Thanh, District 1's public security officer said to my daughter "Since Mr. Chinh returned to Vietnam, your neighbors were very agitated, therefore Mr. Chinh's security is not guaranteed. You must report to public security whenever Mr. Chinh leaves home. Mr. Chinh and Mrs Ngoc (his wife) have only 10 days to stay here, they must return to Hanoi by November 23, 2005"
At 12:15 PM, on November 21, 2005 a nephew of my wife drove a small car to visit us. When the nephew was going to park the car in front of my daughter house, a neighbor group leader, named Tuat, aged about 60, and a public security officer belong to Section 3, ward Ben Thanh, District 1 approached and said no parking here (actually there are many cars that park here everyday). Then a small group of people came and circled the house, the situation was tense. A lady over 50 years of ages, named Hai, resides on the same street, at 96/2 Le Thi Rieng, threw eggs at my nephew's car and tried to cut my daughter's house door with a large knife.
When my nephew drove the car away, a group of people followed. Among them, the neighbor group leader said "Are you a son of a central committee member? You must not have a relationship with a man who is against the people and the country". My nephew patiently replied "This is a relative relationship. I knew my uncle and my aunt got sick so I visit them. Everybody, even if he is in a jail, others can also visit him"
Immediately after that, Mrs. Hai circled the knife and attacked at the face of my nephew. He kept silence and left the place, because he knew this was their intentional challenge. A couple of minutes later, Mrs. Hai brought twice, each time with a chemical solution container then pour them at my daughter's house (over the closed iron fence gates). Her act caused damages to a motor-cycle and a pot of inside tree (attached pictures to show the damages).
The seat of the motorcycle was burned by the acid in the container. Leaves of the tree on the right corner were burned by acid and turned yellow.
Leaves of the tree on the left corner are still green because no damages caused by acid.
Mr. Nghe, Hai's husband, even though he did not directly act the same way as Mrs. Hai, supported the illegal acts of his wife through his words in front of witnesses.
After Mrs. Hai poured acid, my wife and my daughter ran to the door and saw a white smoke that appeared with a dangerous acid odor (probably Chloride Acid). All members in my daughter's house inhaled the fume and got sneezing, running nose, and dizzy. Especially, my son in law, who inhaled this dangerous fume, got stomach ache, nausea and he must see a doctor. In the afternoon of the same day, a security officer of the ward came and made a report. At first, he said "Maybe this is one kind of dish washer soap". But he was silenced after seeing the crime scene. After he wrote a report of the incident, he brought it with him and said he only made one report.
Next, about 8:00 PM of the same day, a group of 10 young men from 20 to 30 years of ages came to my daughter house and rang the bell, and then knocked on the door loudly, but we strongly refused to open the door. They said aloud "Mr. Chinh must return to Hanoi, he cannot stay with his daughter". They left for a while then returned and said the same thing and went away.
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen,
In a period that I stayed in the United States (from August 31, 2005 to November 12, 2005) newspapers and TV stations have began a wave of attacking to me starting on October 14, 2005. The purposes of the attacks were to smear my honor, false accusation, personality assassination, and violate the laws and morality as mentioned in my lawsuit dated October 31, 2005 (see website http://www.doi-thoai.com/baimoi1105_017.html for my lawsuit). When I returned to my country, my friends told me that they took all the articles which attacked me in the newspapers and they read them on public speaker days after days for a month.
Media in the country and around the world, all have a question "Why do newspapers and TV stations in Vietnam not allow to be published an entire article that Mr. Hoang Minh Chinh read at Harvard University and his statement to The Foreign Relation Sub Committee at Lower Chamber of Congress, so the readers have enough information to make an objective evaluation?"
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Constitution of Vietnam - article 69 states: ".each citizen has the freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of communication." Article 71 states: "each citizen's life, honor, virtue are protected by the laws. Prohibit any act of violating a citizen's honor and virtue."
Based on the Constitution and laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Government, I have submitted a law suite aimed at 7 newspapers on October 31, 2005 as mentioned above, but I did not receive a reply. Currently, the acts of smearing, false accusation, and violating citizen's rights of mine and my family are happening in Saigon and Hanoi, in the past, now and maybe in the future. Therefore, as private citizen Hoang Minh Chinh, I urgently ask with respect:
1. Vietnamese government at all levels, must respect the Constitution, the laws of Vietnam, must have a measure to prevent and punish any one who violate the Constitution and the laws against me and my family according to the laws.
2. High Commission of Human Right of United Nations, all Human Right agencies and groups in the country and overseas, Parliaments and Governments of Democratic countries in the World, news agencies and newspapers in the country and oversea, friends who paid attention to my difficult and dangerous situations. I express deeply my thanks to all.
Ho Chi Minh City, November 21, 2005
Sincerely,
Hoang Minh Chinh