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A number of US congressmen have totally fabricate evidence about the case at the Con Dau parish
Hanoi (VNA) – A number of US congressmen have totally fabricated evidence about
the case at the Con Dau parish in the central city of Da Nang at a US Congress
hearing on Vietnam ’s religious freedom situation in front of the Tom Lantos
Human Rights Commission on August 18, 2010.
The fabrication aims to smear Vietnam and to deceive US public opinion when they
say that Catholic followers were attacked by police during a funeral and local
authorities prevented Maria Dang Thi Tan’s funeral, beat many people, leaving
them wounded and causing the death of Nguyen Thanh Nam as well as detained many
local people in a land dispute over the Con Dau cemetery.
The cased happened in early May 2010. On the afternoon of May 6, 2010, a
spokesperson of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry stated, “The truth is that this
case (the Con Dau parish) has nothing to do with religion”.
The Con Dau cemetery is to be relocated as part of Da Nang city’s new
residential area development scheme that has been widely publicised. Now the city
is making compensation for site clearance and the cemetery is not available any
longer, said the spokesperson.
Da Nang city’s Religion Board said that a number of extremist elements
had taken advantage of Dang Thi Tan’s funeral to cause public disorder and
fought against the police in Con Dau hamlet, Hoa Xuan ward, Cam Le district,
but they were persuaded to stop their acts.
According to the extremist elements’ statements, they incited the decease
woman’s family and attacked the police during her funeral.
The extremists group’s activities during Tan’s funeral on May 4, 2010 caused
discontent among the witnesses. Even many Catholic residents who attended the
funeral expressed their critical protest. Huynh Thi Phan, a 58-year-old resident
of Hoa Xuan ward, is one of those lured to join the extremist group who is now
bitterly repenting her wrongdoing.
Fifty-three-year-old Nguyen Truong, another resident of Hoa Xuan ward, who was
head of the Con Dau parish’s dogmas committee for 19 years, said that the
extremists did bad things to the deceased old woman’s soul.
According to Da Nang city’s Religion Board, Nguyen Thanh Nam, born on Dec. 24,
1967 and residing in Hoa Xuan ward, Cam Le district, was found dead at home by
his family at 13:30hrs on July 3, 2010. His family, which has a history of
stroke, reported to local authorities following his death that he died of stroke.
His family held a funeral for him with due religious ritual at the Hoa Son
cemetery with the assistance of local authorities.
However, US congressmen at the hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights
Commission have deliberately concocted a serious situation at Can Dau parish to
distort Vietnam ’s religious freedom and belief situation to make the US
administration put Vietnam back on the US State Department’s list of
“Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC). Their ill intention cannot deceive
people and will absolutely fail.-Enditem
the case at the Con Dau parish in the central city of Da Nang at a US Congress
hearing on Vietnam ’s religious freedom situation in front of the Tom Lantos
Human Rights Commission on August 18, 2010.
The fabrication aims to smear Vietnam and to deceive US public opinion when they
say that Catholic followers were attacked by police during a funeral and local
authorities prevented Maria Dang Thi Tan’s funeral, beat many people, leaving
them wounded and causing the death of Nguyen Thanh Nam as well as detained many
local people in a land dispute over the Con Dau cemetery.
The cased happened in early May 2010. On the afternoon of May 6, 2010, a
spokesperson of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry stated, “The truth is that this
case (the Con Dau parish) has nothing to do with religion”.
The Con Dau cemetery is to be relocated as part of Da Nang city’s new
residential area development scheme that has been widely publicised. Now the city
is making compensation for site clearance and the cemetery is not available any
longer, said the spokesperson.
Da Nang city’s Religion Board said that a number of extremist elements
had taken advantage of Dang Thi Tan’s funeral to cause public disorder and
fought against the police in Con Dau hamlet, Hoa Xuan ward, Cam Le district,
but they were persuaded to stop their acts.
According to the extremist elements’ statements, they incited the decease
woman’s family and attacked the police during her funeral.
The extremists group’s activities during Tan’s funeral on May 4, 2010 caused
discontent among the witnesses. Even many Catholic residents who attended the
funeral expressed their critical protest. Huynh Thi Phan, a 58-year-old resident
of Hoa Xuan ward, is one of those lured to join the extremist group who is now
bitterly repenting her wrongdoing.
Fifty-three-year-old Nguyen Truong, another resident of Hoa Xuan ward, who was
head of the Con Dau parish’s dogmas committee for 19 years, said that the
extremists did bad things to the deceased old woman’s soul.
According to Da Nang city’s Religion Board, Nguyen Thanh Nam, born on Dec. 24,
1967 and residing in Hoa Xuan ward, Cam Le district, was found dead at home by
his family at 13:30hrs on July 3, 2010. His family, which has a history of
stroke, reported to local authorities following his death that he died of stroke.
His family held a funeral for him with due religious ritual at the Hoa Son
cemetery with the assistance of local authorities.
However, US congressmen at the hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights
Commission have deliberately concocted a serious situation at Can Dau parish to
distort Vietnam ’s religious freedom and belief situation to make the US
administration put Vietnam back on the US State Department’s list of
“Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC). Their ill intention cannot deceive
people and will absolutely fail.-Enditem
