Dr Nguyen Dan Que's

C O M M U N I Q U E

Today 11 May 1999, the Vietnamese people celebrate deep inside the Vietnam Human Rights Day.

Taking advantage of this occasion we would like to declare:

Vietnam belongs to all the Vietnamese people at home and abroad.

No government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.

Therefore the Politburo of the Vietnamese Communist Party should:

1. Respect the basic Human Rights of the Vietnamese people, including freedom of opinion, of press, of religion, of trade unions and all other political rights;
2. Separate the Party from the administration, army and police; stop using money of the tax-payers financing illegal Party activities to repress the liberties of the people for their dictatorship;
3. Let the actual Parliament discuss a new electoral law for free and fair elections under the international supervision;
4. The already separated-out administration will convene an all-encompassing tendencies National Congress to draw up a new Constitution helping the country go out of the actual stalemate, since everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country.

Otherwise, the Politburo must bear all responsibility for inducing the population to stand up for self-determination of their own fate in a rapidly democratised world; with resistance to the erroneous policies of the Politburo immersing the whole population in stagnancy, corruption, poverty and poor education.

Vietnam, 11 May 1999

Dr Nguyen Dan Que

Cao Trao Nhan Ban (Human Rights Movement)

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