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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Wives of Jailed Chinese Labor Activists Appeal to U.S. Officials (www.washingtonpost.com). The wives of two imprisoned Chinese labor organizers called on two visiting U.S. cabinet members on Tuesday to press the Chinese government to release their husbands and allow them to obtain urgently needed medical care. By Philip P. Pan. By By Philip P. Pan. [washingtonpost.com - World]
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The cruelty of the Vietnamese Government after the peaceful demonstrations of Easter 2004:

Torture victim gives birth to stillborn and Christian crucified Urgent investigation by International community needed  [MFI]

BACKGROUND: On April 10, 2004 tens of thousands of Christian Montagnards conducted peaceful demonstrations inside Vietnam’s Central Highlands calling for an end to years of persecution by the communist government. Vietnamese government security forces brutally attacked the demonstrators and Human Rights Watch reported on 28 May 2004, that “Hundreds of demonstrators were wounded and many were killed on April 10 and 11 on key bridges and roadways leading into Buon Ma Thuot, the provincial capital of Dak Lak, and in commune centers in Gia Lai and Lam Dong provinces.”

The stories of two victims of the “Easter Massacre” are described below. It is noted this information comes directly from sources inside Vietnam. We ask the international monitors to specifically go to these villages and investigate these crimes. 

PREGNANT WOMAN BEATEN AND TORTURED WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS GIVES BIRTH TO STILLBORN BABY: H’Loa Nie is from the village of Buon Emap, district of Cu Mgar, Province of Daklak. She was pregnant when she participated in the peaceful and strictly nonviolent demonstrations on April 10-11, 2004.  She did not believe the Vietnamese government would be so cruel as to torture a pregnant woman on Easter and thought because they did not come to fight with the Vietnamese Government but only to pray to God that she would be safe. The demonstration was done peacefully intending only to say to the officials that the Montagnard Degar people want their basic human rights and rights as an indigenous people of Vietnam respected.

During the demonstration the police arrested H’Loa Nie and savagely tortured her with beatings and electric shock torture. She was later released but the damage was already done. On May 21, 2004 she delivered a stillborn baby boy who weighed 4 kilograms. This kind of crime is unforgivable and H’Loa cries today with unbearable pain.

CRUCIFIED, EXECUTED AND NAILED TO CROSS:

Y-Rung Nie who was born in 1968 was from the village of Buon Kna, district of Cu Mgar, Province of Daklak. On April 10-11, 2004 Y-Rung Nie participated in the peaceful demonstration and then went back to his village. He thought the Vietnamese government would not hurt him but he was wrong. On May 2, 2004 the Vietnamese police from Hanoi went to his house, arrested him, and took him away. He was executed and this is how the police killed him: because he is a Christian, they made a cross and nailed him to it. They drove 4 nails on his feet, 4 nails on his hands, 1 nail on his chest and 2 nails on his head. Five days later, the police brought a coffin to his family and told his family that they had killed him because he followed Kok Ksor and the Montagnard Foundation. The police wanted his family to go collect his dead body at the nearby coffee plantation. The police threatened Y-Rung Nie’s family not to tell anyone of this killing or they will come back to their village and kill them too. On 9th May 2004 Y-Rung Nie’s family went to the coffee plantation and picked up his corpse brought him back to their village and buried him. Some of the villagers have reported to us that they also saw the cross where Y-Rung Nie was crucified in the coffee plantations this information comes direct from witnesses inside Vietnam.

THE MONTAGNARD FOUNDATION CALLS ON:

       The International community and United Nations Organization takes immediate action to investigate these specific crimes and to insist the Vietnamese government release our Montagnard people held in prison for peaceful political activity, for practicing  Christianity, demanding fair treatment by the Government or for trying to flee to Cambodia as refugees. 

       The International community and United Nations Organization takes immediate action in getting human rights monitors access to the central highlands as recommended by the UN Human Rights Committee of which Vietnam has continued to ignore. (July 2002 75th session Human Rights Committee Concluding Observations on Vietnam. UN doc: CCPR/C/SR.2031). 

       The International community and United Nations Organization takes immediate action to ensure the UNHCR is permitted to operate freely in Cambodia, that both Cambodia and Vietnam abide by the Refugee Convention, (as recently identified by UN Special Envoy Hon. Peter Leupretch) and that the bounties paid by Hanoi for our fleeing refugees are immediately stopped.

       The United Nations Organization and the Countries members of UN sub-committee of NGOs should reject the allegations raised by the Vietnamese government, against Mr. Kok Ksor, the Montagnard Foundation and the Transnational Radical Party (an NGO with Consultative Status to the UN who allowed Mr. Kok Ksor to speak on its behalf at the Commission on Human Rights); the Vietnamese Government in fact, without any serious evidence accuses the Montagnard Foundation of being a terrorist group, and for this reason would like to have the TRP banned from attending the works of the UN. Special notice should be undertaken to review how freedom of expression will be seriously undermined in the UN if such grave allegations would prevail without any serious scrutiny according to international standards of fair trial and the right to defence. 

       That international donors and foreign governments seriously review how aid monies are used in Vietnam in order to ensure Vietnam ceases human rights violations and religious repression in Vietnam. (as reported by the Human Rights Watch report of 2 December 2003 entitled “Vietnam: Donors Must Insist On Human Rights Progress”). 

UNLESS URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION IS TAKEN MANY MORE MONTAGNARDS WILL SUFFER AND DIE

 http://www.montagnard-foundation.org/

 


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