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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject: Vietnam |
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Vietnam dropped from state violators of religious freedom list
Reuters recently reported that Vietnam has been dropped from the State Department’s “list of nations that severely violate religious freedom.” The announcement was made by US officials on condition of anonymity only a week before President Bush is scheduled to visit Vietnam.
For full report, click here <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061113/pl_nm/vietnam_usa_religion_dc>. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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You think the Montagnards would buy that line? 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | | You think the Montagnards would buy that line? |
damn shame what they did to those people, and they deserved better being our allies |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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I am actually surprised that Viet Nam was ever on the list of "state violators of religious freedom". The vast majority of Vietnamese are Buddhist, Christian or Hindu, even in the North. The government might be officially athiest, but it's a good bet that 90+% of the government workers and normal citizens follow some religion of another.
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I would call their treatment of the Montagnards "ethic cleansing" not religious persecution.
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| JN173 wrote: | | I would call their treatment of the Montagnards "ethic cleansing" not religious persecution. |
On this I can agree!
This would be the second time that ethnic cleansing has been performed since the fall of Saigon.
The first was the Boat People. Most of the Boat People were ethnic Chinese and were forcibly evicted from the country. One thing many Americans never realized was that the vast majority of Vietnamese Boat People spoke no Vietnamese.
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