Maggie's Farm

I'm not a fan of the Bambi administration, but I dislike false reporting. the US hasn't deleted all references to religious persecution from its human rights reports. as cited below, there are two, a Country Report and a Religious Freedom Report.

United States Department of State, 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Vietnam, 24 May 2011 (from the UN website)

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,USDOS,,,4fc75a4c46,0.html

the Report:

"c. Freedom of Religion

See the Department of State's 2010 International Religious Freedom Report."

with this link:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4e734c55c.html

to:
United States Department of State, July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report - Vietnam, 13 September 2011

there are extensive, detailed, factual reports of restrictions on religious freedoms and abuses. e.g.,

"Several hundred parishioners protested the demolition of a large concrete cross by police at the Dong Chiem Catholic parish in January. Police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and beat approximately a dozen individuals. Two weeks later a Catholic monk was beaten unconscious by police as he tried to enter the Dong Chiem parish near where the cross was demolished.
...

The government continued to assert that some ethnic minorities or Montagnards in the Central Highlands were operating a "Dega" church. The government accused the Dega churches of calling for the creation of an independent Montagnard state. The SECV and house churches in the provinces of Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Binh Phuoc, Phu Yen, and Dak Nong continued to experience government scrutiny because of feared association with separatist groups overseas."

what's the point of making such patently false claims? Little Barry is incompetent enough without having to resort to lies about his administration, lies that make the opposition look like liars themselves.

the reporting is dishonest your entire claim about nefarious government intentions is cut out of whole cloth, pure speculation and entirely inconsistent with the facts:

Reports for 2006, 2007 and 2008 all make passing or no references to Montagnards. All of these reports have some detailed information on specific religious abuses, but none of them are as nearly as detailed or specific as the 2010 report cited by the government in its more recent report. if the government wanted to suppress this information, it wouldn't have linked to its own United States Department of State, July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report - Vietnam, 13 September 2011

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006
dated March 6, 2007
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78796.htm
no mention of Montagnards, discussion on religious persecution not as detailed as the government's 2010 report.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2008
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100543.htm
one reference to Montagnards who were amnestied by the government. discussion on religious persecution not as detailed as 2010 report.


2008 Human Rights Reports: Vietnam
BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Report
February 25, 2009
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119063.htm
references to two Montagnard individuals. discussion on religious persecution not as detailed as government's 2010 report.

ill-informed anti-bambi claims don't help and make the opposition look as bad as the government.

the report is false, and I'm guessing intentionally so.