U.S. official finds no abuse of refugees in Vietnam's Central Highlands

The Associated Press
Published: February 5, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/05/asia/AS-GEN-Vietnam-Refugees.php

HANOI, Vietnam: A U.S. official praised Vietnam on Monday for improving its record on human rights and religious freedom, traditionally a contentious subject between the two nations.

Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey visited the restive Central Highlands, the scene of protests in recent years over land rights and religious issues. The region is home to ethnic minority hill tribes, collectively called Montagnards, many of whom are Christians that belong to churches not recognized by the Vietnamese government.

After violent protests in 2004, several hundred people fled to neighboring Cambodia. Some were later denied refugee status and forced to return to Vietnam, while others went home voluntarily.

Some international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have charged that many of those who returned were harassed, jailed or beaten.

secret torture dungeons all over the world, and created a culture of torturing prisoners in the U.S. military that resulted in the horrors of Abu Ghraib, and invaded Iraq slaughtering 100,000 innocent people in the initial bombing alone, and is dragging out a brutal and thieving occupation in order to get oil contracts signed, sealed and delivered, and....

...thus becomes an authority on human rights in Vietnam????!!!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

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There must be a "free trade" agreement (global corporate piracy) involved.