Vietnam criticizes US religious rights report
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Hanoi - Vietnam called a US State Department report on religious freedom in the country "biased" and "misleading," the official Vietnam News reported Thursday. The State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2009, released Monday, said local authorities had harassed some Buddhist and Christian denominations, but said overall religious freedom in Vietnam was improving. "Vietnam's consistent policy is to respect every citizen's rights to the freedom of belief and religion," Vietnamese government spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga said. "The US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2009 still includes biased assessments which are based on misleading information about the situation in Vietnam." The report said "despite progress during the reporting period, significant problems remained with the implementation of the legal framework on religion, especially at the provincial and village levels." It further noted that "religious groups encountered the greatest restrictions when they engaged in activities the government perceived as a challenge to its rule or to the authority of the Communist Party." All religions in Vietnam are required to register with the government. While the government has recognized several new Christian and Buddhist denominations in the past year, others have been refused. In recent months clashes have taken place between police and Catholics organizing rallies at the site of a former church in the province of Quang Binh. More recently, 400 monastics affiliated with a Western-based Zen Buddhist group were forced out of Bat Nha monastery, near the southern tourist town of Dalat. The US Embassy in Hanoi made an official statement criticizing the Bat Nha expulsions.
Copyright DPA
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You know who you are...
By:
artis sideley ,
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:17:55 GMT
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Edwin,
What has the current regime in Vietnam has done for the Vietnamese ? NEarly nothing, they sold they country resources to the Soviet, now to the Chinese.
The real traitors to the Vietnamese nation are the totalitarian regime that has been reigning on the country for more than 3 decades.
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Liar Liar VC
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Nixon Smith ,
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:49:51 GMT
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What did the VC gov. done with the people whom has diferrent opinions with the the VC? The VC put them in prison.
http://media.nowpublic.net/images/c3/4/c34b49ec7c4223c1e83783e30eb17960.jpg
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HR Vietnam
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Edwin Tran ,
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:20:43 GMT
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People like Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch's Deputy Asian Director earning may be some 50,000 or more USD per annum for herself from the Asian Church collections from country like Philippines, Vietnam to make her living standard to the top range in Asia wealth off, meanwhile she is risking the lives for these poor and innocent people becoming an enemy to their own nation for Vatican. To think of this The Human Rights Group should be banned!
10/23/2009 3:46:04 AM
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HR Vietnam
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Edwin Tran ,
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:18:37 GMT
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Human Right records based on those no basic backgrounds, or a body representing for any important sources. Human Rights Group takes anything from one written word to an email for evidence. Human Rights Group has no office in Vietnam and how can they assumed anything rights. Human Right Group is doing almost like asking people to spy on that country and willing to pay for a ransom for information relevant to anything. Is not this illegal for those caught for spying in their own country? Do you know what you will face if you were caught spying for an American against the US? Read this www.ncix.gov/archives/docs/espionageAgainstUSbyCitizens.pdf
What Human Rights Group does here is risking the live of those ordinary people for their own purposes. This is againsting the basic humanity!
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