Montagnards: Vietnamese Government's Propaganda against the TRP and Kok Ksor
How the Vietnamese Communist regime "masks" the Montagnard crisis
Vietnamese Government launches propaganda campaign against the Transnational Radical Party and the Montagnards Foundation.Statements published by "Radio Voice of Vietnam"
After the social disorder in the Central Highlands on April
10-11, some western media agencies made incorrect new stories exaggerating and
accusing Vietnam of violating fundamental human rights and suppressing religious
freedom. It was a coincidence that on April 18, the Voice of America interviewed
the former president of the Saigon administration, Mr Nguyen Cao Ky, about what
he witnessed during his return to the home land after nearly 30 years. Mr Ky
said, "I was free to travel everywhere, from north to south. I was so moved
at the positive changes of the country. Nearly 30 years after I left the country,
roads and bridges which were once damaged during the war had been built. Wherever
I came, local authorities affirmed their determination to build and develop
economy to ensure well-being for the residents. I will come back to Vietnam,
again and again for what I call great national unity".
It was wondered whether in the US, Ksor Kok and some reporters who sided with him and other reactionaries in exile to give wrongful information about the Central Highlands incident heard of this interview.
The BBC, after discovering misleading information about the incident, rectified its mistake at once saying that it was sourced by Ksor Kok – the instigator of the incident.
To carry out this incident, Ksor Kok was supported by overseas political figures. On April 9, one day before the incident took place, from Italy, Marco Pannella, an MP, declared "I am certain that tomorrow at least 150,000 Central Highlanders will hold demonstrations and move to Buon Ma Thuot city. At least 400 will be killed and hundreds injured...."
His statement was like one coming from a football match commentator who could announce the result from anywhere. It was pity for him that after the incident, the life in the Central Highlands soon returned to normal.
Who is Marco Pannella?. He is co-chairman of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), which was established by some individuals of opposition factions in the US. Under the mask of Struggling for religious freedom and democracy in some countries, it recently organized a congress and established a world democratic organization. The Organisation is led by 17 members, including Ksor Kok and Vo Van Ai, two Vietnamese nationals living in exile. Other members include Thephsonvanh, Chairman of the Lao human rights movement overseas, Wei Sing Sheng, chairman of Chinese democratic alliance overseas, and Nikolai Khramov, Chairman of Russia’s transnational radical party overseas.
In recent years, the TRP sent several figures to Vietnam, China, Laos, Cambodia and Russia to instigate and distort the truth about these countries. Among them was Oliver Dupuis, also member of the European Parliament. Before the incident in the three Central Highlands provinces, he visited Vietnam, China and Laos. He was extradited by these countries for his acts of instigating local religious followers. Oliver Dupuis and Martin Schulthen blatantly erected banners in front of Thanh Minh Thien Vien in Tran Huy Lieu street, HCM City, demanding religious freedom in Vietnam. Both were later extradited by the Vietnamese authorities.
Leaving Vietnam, Depuis left no stone unturned to enter Cambodia to carry out his scheme ‘to help the country organize the elections in freedom, democracy and equality’. Working with local authorities there, he dwelled on the situation of the ethnic Khmer Krom and accused Vietnam of human rights violations.
Alongside Oliver Depuis, in the other hemisphere, Marco Pannella sang Ksor Kok’s praises. Making use of the United Nations regulations in the Social-Economic Council, the TRP drummed up support for Ksor Kok and Vo Van Ai to travel some countries to deceive and lobby for the establishment of the Dega autonomous state in the Central Highlands.
This was the reason why Ksor Kok, in the name of the TRP, presented a report accusing Vietnam of violating human rights and suppressing Montagnards and religious followers in the Central Highlands at the fifth session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on April 15, 2002 and at a conference held by the European Parliament on September 16, 2002. He asked the European Parliament to let the TRP continuously function as a consultancy agency of the United Nations. Vietnam is demanding the cancellation of this post.
After that, Ksor Kok loudly lied to Central Highlanders that many countries have known our movement. They invite us whenever they hold conferences. Accordingly, ethnic minority people should maintain uprisings for sovereignty and independence of the Dega state in the Central Highlands.
Ksor Kok also admitted, ‘we now lack money. If we have money this year, we will continue our travel to Geneva and France.’
The question here is what could be done by such a state like Dega when it was unable to afford an airfare to fly from the United States to Europe.
It was not surprising that some local people who had been misled by Ksor Kok to flee away to Cambodia and then to the US recently asked for permission to return home. Knowing this, immediately came to see them and pointedly said, ‘I know among you some want to return to the homeland. But I advise you not to do that. No matter what happens, I will resolutely claim back land in the Central Highlands for you.’
In a nutshell, Ksor Kok not only lied to Central Highlanders, but also intended to dupe the whole world under the cloak of the transnational radical party.
It was wondered whether in the US, Ksor Kok and some reporters who sided with him and other reactionaries in exile to give wrongful information about the Central Highlands incident heard of this interview.
The BBC, after discovering misleading information about the incident, rectified its mistake at once saying that it was sourced by Ksor Kok – the instigator of the incident.
To carry out this incident, Ksor Kok was supported by overseas political figures. On April 9, one day before the incident took place, from Italy, Marco Pannella, an MP, declared "I am certain that tomorrow at least 150,000 Central Highlanders will hold demonstrations and move to Buon Ma Thuot city. At least 400 will be killed and hundreds injured...."
His statement was like one coming from a football match commentator who could announce the result from anywhere. It was pity for him that after the incident, the life in the Central Highlands soon returned to normal.
Who is Marco Pannella?. He is co-chairman of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), which was established by some individuals of opposition factions in the US. Under the mask of Struggling for religious freedom and democracy in some countries, it recently organized a congress and established a world democratic organization. The Organisation is led by 17 members, including Ksor Kok and Vo Van Ai, two Vietnamese nationals living in exile. Other members include Thephsonvanh, Chairman of the Lao human rights movement overseas, Wei Sing Sheng, chairman of Chinese democratic alliance overseas, and Nikolai Khramov, Chairman of Russia’s transnational radical party overseas.
In recent years, the TRP sent several figures to Vietnam, China, Laos, Cambodia and Russia to instigate and distort the truth about these countries. Among them was Oliver Dupuis, also member of the European Parliament. Before the incident in the three Central Highlands provinces, he visited Vietnam, China and Laos. He was extradited by these countries for his acts of instigating local religious followers. Oliver Dupuis and Martin Schulthen blatantly erected banners in front of Thanh Minh Thien Vien in Tran Huy Lieu street, HCM City, demanding religious freedom in Vietnam. Both were later extradited by the Vietnamese authorities.
Leaving Vietnam, Depuis left no stone unturned to enter Cambodia to carry out his scheme ‘to help the country organize the elections in freedom, democracy and equality’. Working with local authorities there, he dwelled on the situation of the ethnic Khmer Krom and accused Vietnam of human rights violations.
Alongside Oliver Depuis, in the other hemisphere, Marco Pannella sang Ksor Kok’s praises. Making use of the United Nations regulations in the Social-Economic Council, the TRP drummed up support for Ksor Kok and Vo Van Ai to travel some countries to deceive and lobby for the establishment of the Dega autonomous state in the Central Highlands.
This was the reason why Ksor Kok, in the name of the TRP, presented a report accusing Vietnam of violating human rights and suppressing Montagnards and religious followers in the Central Highlands at the fifth session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on April 15, 2002 and at a conference held by the European Parliament on September 16, 2002. He asked the European Parliament to let the TRP continuously function as a consultancy agency of the United Nations. Vietnam is demanding the cancellation of this post.
After that, Ksor Kok loudly lied to Central Highlanders that many countries have known our movement. They invite us whenever they hold conferences. Accordingly, ethnic minority people should maintain uprisings for sovereignty and independence of the Dega state in the Central Highlands.
Ksor Kok also admitted, ‘we now lack money. If we have money this year, we will continue our travel to Geneva and France.’
The question here is what could be done by such a state like Dega when it was unable to afford an airfare to fly from the United States to Europe.
It was not surprising that some local people who had been misled by Ksor Kok to flee away to Cambodia and then to the US recently asked for permission to return home. Knowing this, immediately came to see them and pointedly said, ‘I know among you some want to return to the homeland. But I advise you not to do that. No matter what happens, I will resolutely claim back land in the Central Highlands for you.’
In a nutshell, Ksor Kok not only lied to Central Highlanders, but also intended to dupe the whole world under the cloak of the transnational radical party.
