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.
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