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April 2012 Vol I, No 1
Vietnam facing "time bomb" of dissent
"The US government and rights groups are expressing concern over Vietnam's crackdown on freedom of expression, as the regime faces growing dissent and labor militancy," the Democracy Digest of April 18, 2012, reports.
Among the more notorious human rights violations in recent days figure the following:
A Catholic priest, Nguyen Van Binh of Yen Kien Parish, Hanoi, was beaten unconscious by a gang of thugs on April 14 when he tried to stop the demolition by police of a house he had used as an orphanage. (The Archdiocese of Hanoi protested this in a letter of April 15, 2012.)
This followed an incident on February 23, 2012, when Father Nguyen Quang Hoa of Kon Hring Parish, Kon Tum Province, was pursued on a motorbike by three aggressors after he performed funeral rites for a parishioner in Turia Yop village (Dak Hring township, Dak Ha prefecture). After catching up with him they pursued him for over 200 yards beating him with iron rods as he fled into a rubber plantation.
