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Another mistaken resolution passed by the US House of Representatives
Right after the adoption of the Vietnam Human Rights Act 2007 (HR3096) adopted by the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, public opinion had exposed the nature of the draft sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith and nine others. However, the voice of the public has not awoken good sense and political intransigence of some US representatives. They have mobilised for the ratification of a legal document which actually distorts the issue of human rights in Vietnam, brazenly interfering in the internal affairs of Vietnam.
Filled with groundless content, the Vietnam Human Rights Act 2007 intentionally creates a gloomy picture on the issue of human rights in Vietnam while ignoring the differences between religious freedom and other activities which can be seen as illegal political activities. HR 3096 is a move in support of a number of Vietnamese extremists mainly living abroad. Not only lacking in goodwill, the bill also uses human rights as a “trump card” to gamble with common sense because it threatens to prohibit increased U.S. non-humanitarian assistance to the Government of Vietnam unless the country makes progress in human rights according to “their own standards”. By adding this requirement, the US House of Representatives has directly affirmed that “human rights” has to conform to their conception which in fact could be described as “non-humanitarian” as it is being used to put pressure on the development process of another country regardless the people’s interest. In particular, in order to support the illegal activities against Vietnam, the act proposes to authorise US $4 million over two years for organisations and individuals that “promote human rights in Vietnam” and over US $10 million for Radio Free Asia which has been long notorious for distorting any stories regarding Vietnam. A Vietnamese abroad has stated that “most of RFA’s programmes are aimed at causing disorder in Vietnam. The issues which have been so far exploited by RFA included freedom, democracy and religion. They did not hesitate to create stories which never happened. They have never felt ashamed of reporting false stories. Regular guests of RFA are terrorist groups supported by Vietnamese living in exile, Anti-Vietnam extremist groups in the Vietnamese community living in the US and political opportunists wearing the mask of “pro-democracy activists” such as Tran Khue, Nguyen Thanh Giang, Nguyen Dan Que, Nguyen Van Ly, Nguyen Van Dai and Do Nam Hai (http://www.chuyenluan.net/200706/0706_21.html). By increasing the budget for RFA, it must be questioned whether the Vietnam Human Rights Act 2007 pays any attention at all to human rights and to Vietnam’s development and stability or it is aimed to support those who are launching illegal activities against Vietnam?

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