220 sự kiện nổi bật của Phong Trào tranh đấu Dân Chủ Nhân Quyền Việt Nam trong năm 2007 Năm 2007 sắp trôi qua, trong năm 2007 các hoạt động tranh đấu dân chủ nhân quyền cho Việt Nam diễn ra sôi động khắp nơi ở trong nước và trên thế giới rất nhiều và khó có thể liệt kê hết tất cả, những sự kiện dân chủ này không bao giờ có mặt trên hơn 700 tờ báo quốc doanh của cầm quyền độc tài toàn trị cộng sản Việt nam. Bản liệt kê những hoạt động dân chủ nhân quyền điển hình diễn ra trong năm 2007 cho nên có thể hơi dài, xin quí vị giữ kiên nhẫn khi đọc để có thể thấy được quá trình tranh đấu dân chủ nhân quyền không mệt mỏi của người dân Việt nam ở trong và ngoài nước cùng với sự hỗ trợ của cộng đồng dư luận quốc tế tiến bộ văn minh khắp nơi trên thế giới ủng hộ cho một Việt Nam dân chủ thực sự, chứng minh một điều đã thành chân lý là Tự Do không tự nhiên mà có mà phải trải qua cả một quá trình tranh đấu mãnh liệt. Sau đây Nhóm Phóng Viên Dân Chủ Nhân Quyền chúng tôi chỉ muốn đưa ra tổng kết những sự kiện nổi bật của Phong Trào tranh đấu Dân Chủ Nhân Quyền Việt Nam trong năm 2007 đã diễn ra:   more »

PARIS, 13th December 2007 (IBIB) - The International Buddhist Information Bureau is informed that UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang has rejected an invitation from the Ministry of Public Security to attend the “6th Nation-wide Congress of Buddhist Representatives for 2007-2012” (i.e. the 6th Congress of the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church, set up under Communist Party control in 1981) that opens in Hanoi today (13.12.2007). 2008 UN Vesak Day International Organising Committee in Hanoi abusively lists name of UBCV dignitary Thich Thien Tam: On the International Organising Committee (IOC) of the 2008 United Nations Vesak Day (Birth of Buddha) which has just been made public on the official website, Buddhists at home and abroad were deeply disturbed to see the name of UBCV dignitary Thich Thien Tam, Head of the Canadian Overseas UBCV’s Advisory Board Secretariat and Commissioner for Canadian Affairs of the new Overseas UBCV Office. In fact, Venerable Thich Thien Tam has never been invited to be an IOC member, nor informed that his name was being used. In a letter to Professor Le Manh That, Chairman of the 2008 Vesak IOC in Hanoi, Thich Thien Tam denounced the abuse of his name as a “dubious and unlawful move to create confusion and divisions within the Buddhist community in Vietnam and overseas”. He demanded that his name be immediately withdrawn. Thich Thien Tam deplored that the 2008 UN Vesak Day would be organised by the Communist authorities and the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church not to truly commemorate Lord Buddha’s Birth, but to parade an illusory “religious freedom” for international public opinion, whilst continuing to ruthlessly muzzle and repress the independent UBCV.   more »

Vietnamese language essay about Ho Chi Minh written by the People's Democratic Party (an outlawed group) in Hanoi on the occasion of National Day in Vietnam giving alternate history to the Communist view. Vũ Hải Đăng - Đảng DCND http://ddcnd.org/main/ Hồ Chí Minh từng viết báo và tham gia sáng lập nhiều tờ báo cách mạng ở Pháp. Thật nực cười, ở đây là cười ra nước mắt, khi một thực tế hiển nhiên rằng: “Hồ Chí Minh được hưởng những quyền Tự do – Dân chủ của văn minh phương Tây, để rồi chính ông và các thế hệ lãnh đạo sau ông lại tước đi của Nhân dân Việt Nam mọi quyền Tự do – Dân chủ đấy.” Hà Nội - Ngày 2 – 9 – 2007   more »

A full description is found at: http://www.vietvungvinh.com/Portal.asp?goto=VietNam/2007/20070830_08.htm The graffiti means to ask the communist party to abolish article 4 in Viet Nam's constitution where its state that "only the VN communist party rules the country, no other party has legitimate right to challenge with them". Therefore, any party forms within Viet Nam will consider as illegal, giving the communist power to suppress. Thank you, People's Democratic Party for sending the photograph and explanation. The next article is from Women for Human Rights in Vietnam. Hanoi, August 30, 2007 � In an effort to learn more about the condition of democracy and human rights in Vietnam, Mr. Michael Orona, Deputy Director of the Office of Asia and Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the US State Department, had scheduled to meet with pro-democracy activists in Hanoi. The meeting, arranged by Women for Human Rights in Vietnam , had been scheduled to take place at the office of Mr. Nguyen Phuong Anh in Hanoi at 3 PM on August 30, 2007. Mr. Orona, supposedly was to meet with fifteen pro-democracy activists including Mr. Pham Van Troi, Mr. Vu Hung, Mr. Pham Duc Chinh, Mr. Do Duy Thong� However, the Hanoi regime attempted to prevent this meeting by holding a number of these activists against their will at police stations in their local provinces, preventing them from traveling to Hanoi to meet with Mr. Orona.   more »

Letter to the San Jose City Council protesting the proposed naming of entry to City the Vietnamese Business District. Author is Nguyen Ngoc Tien, president of the Vietnamese-American Community of Northern California, Ban Đại Diện Cộng Đồng Việt Nam Bắc California. Discusses public meeting of August 15, 2007 and Councilwoman Madison Nguyen.   more »

We the undersigned are the interim representatives of Bloc 8406, who represent tens of thousands of those who have signed the Manifesto on Freedom & Democracy for Vietnam, released on April 8, 2006, to openly confront the Communist dictatorship in a non-violent struggle for a democratic, free, and pluralistic Vietnam....We also know that you have met on August 10 a number of our compatriots in Washington, D.C. You indicated at this meeting that when you assume your position in Vietnam, you shall focus your attention on the issues of human rights, economic development, as well as education in Vietnam. We believe that these are the real issues currently facing our country. They are inter-related since there is a serious lack of respect for human rights and the Vietnamese people have lost all freedoms and are thereby unable to contribute fully to the economic development of the country. This, in turn, results in a stagnated and backward education system. Signed by four interim representatives of Bloc 8406 on August 16, 2007.    more »

Vanessa Hua of the San Francisco Chronicle has received the AAJA print journalism award for a story on cyber-dissident Cong Do, an American citizen and San Jose resident who was imprisoned in Vietnam in 2006. The December 10, 2006 story of his arrest, imprisonment, and rescue through the efforts of his family who quit school and jobs to mobilize support from the larger community, including Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is excerpted and linked.   more »

Bloc 8406 are a group of freedom-seekers in Vietnam who have advocated many meaningful changes in the Communist regime, such as national referendum. They are harassed and subject to arrest themselves, yet speak out to the world in asking support for democracy in Vietnam. The Letter of protest No. 16 protests the Vietnamese Communist government's suppression of petitioning victims of injustice on July 18 and July 19 in Saigon. English translation by MyPhuong Le, Women for Human Rights in Vietnam, www.whrvn.org.   more »

II- Thus, Bloc 8406 affirms that: 1- Demands for the rights to freedoms such as religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom to nominate and elect, and freedom to criticize the wrongdoings and the crimes of the Communist Party and the Communist Government (these are the exact actions of the abovementioned dissidents which resulted in their persecution by the brutal totalitarian regime) are completely appropriate, and are not crimes, but instead are praiseworthy; are not terrorism, but rather are contributions to the Vietnamese people and to building the Vietnamese nation. 4- the VCG to please have the courage to hold a REFERENDUM on which political system the Vietnamese people choose: single-party or multi-party system, democratic capitalism or socialism, a governing body elected by the people or imposed upon them by the party. Since 1945 until now, the Vietnamese people never on their free wills chose “the road to build socialism” which has been proven in reality a complete failure in all aspects: political, economic, cultural, moral, or social. 7- The governments of countries and international organizations having diplomatic relations with Vietnam, please intimately link human rights with politics, economics, trade, culture, and technology, so that your co-operation and support of Vietnam will truly benefit the nation and people of Vietnam. Otherwise, you will only assist in bolstering a brutal dictatorial regime which uses our nation and people as nothing more than chattel to be exploited for its own personal benefit. Written in Vietnam May 23, 2007 signed by three interim representatives of Bloc 8406   more »

Public statement by Amnesty International on the political prisoners in Vietnam, which have increased since acceptance as a full trade partner in APEC. Amnesty International requests that traditional release of prisoners on April 30 include recent political prisoners. A list of prisoners is appended to the statement.   more »

What does Chinese products and business mean today? Lead paint in toys manufactured by slave labor; poison fish put on the market without health regulations for harvest. What does Vietnamese products and business mean today? American Vietnamese lured to "doi moi" finding themselves in jail because their Vietnamese "partners" have found it more lucrative to fleece them than sell honest goods. (see "How Vietnam Venture Proved a Costly Move" for Hoan Nguyen, an American citizen now in the B-14 prison in northern Vietnam in the Wall Street Journal online, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118702662210596089.html?mod=googlenews_wsj The City of San Jose is considering naming one of its entry corridors (Story Road) the Vietnamese Business District. Many immigrants from Communist Vietnam would rather see it named Little Saigon Business District. There is a public hearing on the matter from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at the Tully branch library, 880 Tully Road, San Jose.   more »

A community meeting in San Jose with a representative of the Vietnam Progression Party will take place at the branch library, 880 Tully Road, San Jose CA 95111 Monday, August 13, at 6:30 p.m.   more »