Vietnam Human Rights NetworkMạng Lưới Nhân Quyền Việt Nam
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HAPPY “TET” NEW YEAR FROM THE VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK
The Vietnam Human Rights Network sends its best wishes to the Vietnamese community abroad, the human rights activists at home, and all the Vietnamese people. We wish you a Happy New Year of the Boar, with good health, happiness, prosperity, and success in all your endeavors.
The VNHRN hopes that you will participate actively and vigorously to advance and propagate human rights awareness in a civilized society, so the people in Vietnam will benefit from basic freedoms. From there, they will be able to choose a life according the concept of happiness which individuals and their family wish for.
The VNHRN hopes you will serve as human rights emissaries who will carry the forces of human rights in a civilized society, and that you will help elevate the power of human rights of ordinary people to create the communal strength of our nation. Only then can the Vietnamese people compete with other nations in the global village of today, because a minority of leaders lacks the capability to do so.
A prosperous nation is a nation where all its citizens can produce, not just a nation with vast territories, a numerous population, and rich natural resources. Russia, India, Brazil, etc… all meet these criteria, yet remain poor. In contrast, Taiwan, England, Switzerland, etc… lack these resources but are prosperous. For all the people to be productive, as humankind moves from an industrial age to an information age, it requires people to have the knowledge to be aware of competition with the external world. Knowlege of many aspects, including knowledge of their rights, so they can be self-confident and unafraid, and technical knowledge to know how to make things work, all these are the must-have knowleges. They are essential conditions required for self-sufficiency, which the Vietnamese government cannot and should not restrain in order to protect the special and short-term interests of a minority of current ruling class.
Knowledge is power and this power must be returned to the Vietnamese people.
The VNHRN sincerely thanks you for your assistance and support in the many years past, and again, wishes you a Happy New Year.
Le Minh Nguyen President The Vietnam Human Rights Network
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