Hmong Community and NGOs in the U.S. condemned Vietnam  due to religious prosecution, land confiscation, and arbitary arrest in Vietnam.

 

(Media-Newswire.com) - Hmong Community and NGOs in the U.S.  Condemned Vietnam, a UN SECURITY COUNCIL  member  who refused to allow  Senior EP Member and Italian Senate to enter Vietnam  from the Kingdom of Cambodia   


A Press Release by World Hmong Congress


On Thursday 24, 2008 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, one day before Christmas, the Hmong Community  and representatives  of many Non-Government Organizations (  NGOs ) included World Hmong Congress, The Hmong Genocide Team, Hmong Women Council  for Peace and Democracy  in the U.S., on behalf of  their brothers and sisters in Northern Vietnam, unanimously adopted  the urgent  following RESOLUTION:

Whereas, the Hmong Indigenous are a Proud Peace Loving nation  existed more than 5000 years ago in Greater Asia and Southeast Asia with our own written language, unique culture, religion and national flag;
Whereas, the Hmong are the descendants of Hmong (  Meo or Miao )  King Chi-You- 2600 BC, and  were the first civilized nation  and known to grow rice;

Whereas, three of Hmong Kings Yang, Tseem Cheng (  1879 ),  Vang Youa Lor (  1893 ) and Vue Pa Chay (  )1910-21 ) led the Hmong nation  against other nations before and during the French-Indochina Era  to protect the Hmong States (  Franco-Chinese Treaty 1884-1885 and Franco-Siam Treaty 1907 );

Whereas, due to the distinct of Hmong indigenous nation’s written language, cultural and religion and for alliance with the France and the U.S. in Asia to stop Vietnam’s Annexation and Colonial Empire policy; a Hmong was treat as the  enemy of the State; 

Whereas, the “Moung Meo or Hmong State  ”as recognized by the France officials after the Victory over the Viet Minh 1944- 1945 and for Rescuing many French top Officials including Colonel Sossi, ( Xossi ) Col. Chenivesse, Commando 2nd Lt. Maurice Gauthier, Chief Paul Huberson, General Deuve, Col.Trinquier ) from the Japanese troops from treating as cattle, before the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 1945;

Disturbed by the LAND REFORM POLICY of late dictator Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Pham Van Dong in 1954, months after the Peace Agreement signed in Geneva; Our Hmong indigenous land, farms, rice fields, cattle, pigs and chickens were confiscated by the Vietnamese authorities in the Hmong State, Northwest Vietnam and other regions;

Alarmed by the growing of systematic, arbitrary arrests, religion persecution, imprisonment of Hmong  indigenous men, women and children : by the total of absence of freedom of association, opinion, and constantly  extra-judicial execution of innocent Hmong  since 1954 to the present 2008;

Disappointed by  Vietnam’s  recent of refusal of honorable Mr. Marco Glacinto Pannella, Member of the Parliament and President of  Non-Violent Transnational Radical party and Honorable Mr. Marco Perducca, Member of the Italian Senate, who boarding airplane from the Kingdom of Cambodia to Vietnam December 23, 2008;
Fully support ted the European  Parliament  resolution on the new  EU- Vietnam partnership and Cooperation  Agreement and human rights on October 18, 2008;
Urgently  appeal to the UN General Secretary Ban-Ki-Moon, UN Security Council members, European Parliament, ASEANS,  AFRICA UNIONS  to consider the  ongoing crisis against the Hmong Indigenous in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand as  gross human rights violation as an  international issue; it needs to be resolved by  the  coming informal  talk conferences 2009.   

 

Published by: World Hmong Congress

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