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PANNELLA: EUROPEAN TAXPAYERS’ MONEY HELPS THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES TO TORTURE AND KILL THE MONTAGNARDS. "MUST WE WAIT UNTIL VIETNAM TOO IS COMPLETELY SADDAMISED?"
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Brussels, 25 February 2003 - Pannella, not yet ready to give up the battle, has presented a further, updated parliamentary question on new cases of the torture and murder of Montagnards by the Vietnamese authorities.
Up to now the European Commission has restricted itself to empty statements, but Pannella’s refusal to let the Commission off the hook means that it must now come up with a clear political response, with concrete action.
In the meantime what we are seeing is a case of political complicity that is undoubtedly not shared by the vast majority of the European Parliament, and the hypocritical activity of the European Commission certainly does not reflect the will of the people of Europe.
The question has been signed by all the Radical MEPs: Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, and Maurizio Turco.
Statement by Marco Pannella:
"I do not have yet another comment to make, but I will address Prodi (and Berlusconi), even personally, to ask them: Quosque tandem ... must we wait until Vietnam, too, is completely Saddamised?"
QUESTION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
PRESENTED BY
Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Maurizio Turco.
SUBJECT
Persecuzioni, pestaggi, torture ed assassinii da parte delle autorità pubbliche della Repubblica del Vietnam nei confronti della popolazione cristiana Montagnard (Degar).
TEXT
Considering that Mr Y-Su Nie, a Montagnard (Degar) from the village of Buon Mbhao, Mdrak district, province of Dak Lac, was arrested by the Vietnamese authorities on 15 November 2002 because he is a Christian and because he was upholding the right of the Montagnards to own their land;
that this arrest was also confirmed by the report published by Human Rights Watch on 21 January 2003 “Vietnam: New Assault on Rights in Central Highlands, Crackdown on Indigenous Montagnards Intensifies”;
that after his arrest he was subjected to torture, including electroshock treatment, which caused him to give in. After this he was taken outside the prison every day to decry the activities of the Christians and of Kok Ksor, the President of the Montagnard Foundation, in front of the inhabitants of the Montagnard villages;
that on 30 January 2003 government police officers handcuffed him, telling him that “he would soon be dead, but would be allowed, by the mercy of the Vietnamese government, to see his relatives for one last time”;
that after being subjected to an injection of chemical agents he was released, and that having returned to his family he cried “the government has let me come to see you for just a few moments because the police have injected poison into my body”; at 10 p.m. on the following day, 31 January, Y-Su Nie died. He was buried on 2 February 2003.
Considering that on 7 May 2001 Mrs H’ble Ksor, over eighty years old, the mother of the President of the Montagnard Foundation Kok Ksor, suffered several broken ribs after being beaten by the Vietnamese security forces, and that after being forced to spend three days in hospital her condition has since deteriorated; that the beating took place - while her children were forced to read out the charges against Kok Ksor on TV- because she had refused to do likewise; that since then she has been placed under house arrest in the village of Bon Broai in Ayun Pa, in the region of Gia Lai, and that her relatives have been prevented from delivering medicines to her by the police, who continue to threaten her.
Would like to know whether the European Commission
- has demanded that the Vietnamese authorities put an end to the decades-old repression of the Montagnards (Degars), which has worsened since the peaceful demonstrations of February 2001?
- has taken steps to urge the Vietnamese authorities to comply with the requests contained in the Concluding Observations of the UN Commission for Human Rights of 27 July 2002 (UN doc: CCPR/C/SR.2031), beginning with the request to allow monitoring by the UN, other international institutions and independent NGOs?
- intends to continue to fund the Vietnamese government despite that fact that it continually and repeatedly violates its international obligations on human rights, thus also violating the co-operation agreements stipulated with it?
Up to now the European Commission has restricted itself to empty statements, but Pannella’s refusal to let the Commission off the hook means that it must now come up with a clear political response, with concrete action.
In the meantime what we are seeing is a case of political complicity that is undoubtedly not shared by the vast majority of the European Parliament, and the hypocritical activity of the European Commission certainly does not reflect the will of the people of Europe.
The question has been signed by all the Radical MEPs: Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, and Maurizio Turco.
Statement by Marco Pannella:
"I do not have yet another comment to make, but I will address Prodi (and Berlusconi), even personally, to ask them: Quosque tandem ... must we wait until Vietnam, too, is completely Saddamised?"
QUESTION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
PRESENTED BY
Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Cappato, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Benedetto Della Vedova, Olivier Dupuis, Maurizio Turco.
SUBJECT
Persecuzioni, pestaggi, torture ed assassinii da parte delle autorità pubbliche della Repubblica del Vietnam nei confronti della popolazione cristiana Montagnard (Degar).
TEXT
Considering that Mr Y-Su Nie, a Montagnard (Degar) from the village of Buon Mbhao, Mdrak district, province of Dak Lac, was arrested by the Vietnamese authorities on 15 November 2002 because he is a Christian and because he was upholding the right of the Montagnards to own their land;
that this arrest was also confirmed by the report published by Human Rights Watch on 21 January 2003 “Vietnam: New Assault on Rights in Central Highlands, Crackdown on Indigenous Montagnards Intensifies”;
that after his arrest he was subjected to torture, including electroshock treatment, which caused him to give in. After this he was taken outside the prison every day to decry the activities of the Christians and of Kok Ksor, the President of the Montagnard Foundation, in front of the inhabitants of the Montagnard villages;
that on 30 January 2003 government police officers handcuffed him, telling him that “he would soon be dead, but would be allowed, by the mercy of the Vietnamese government, to see his relatives for one last time”;
that after being subjected to an injection of chemical agents he was released, and that having returned to his family he cried “the government has let me come to see you for just a few moments because the police have injected poison into my body”; at 10 p.m. on the following day, 31 January, Y-Su Nie died. He was buried on 2 February 2003.
Considering that on 7 May 2001 Mrs H’ble Ksor, over eighty years old, the mother of the President of the Montagnard Foundation Kok Ksor, suffered several broken ribs after being beaten by the Vietnamese security forces, and that after being forced to spend three days in hospital her condition has since deteriorated; that the beating took place - while her children were forced to read out the charges against Kok Ksor on TV- because she had refused to do likewise; that since then she has been placed under house arrest in the village of Bon Broai in Ayun Pa, in the region of Gia Lai, and that her relatives have been prevented from delivering medicines to her by the police, who continue to threaten her.
Would like to know whether the European Commission
- has demanded that the Vietnamese authorities put an end to the decades-old repression of the Montagnards (Degars), which has worsened since the peaceful demonstrations of February 2001?
- has taken steps to urge the Vietnamese authorities to comply with the requests contained in the Concluding Observations of the UN Commission for Human Rights of 27 July 2002 (UN doc: CCPR/C/SR.2031), beginning with the request to allow monitoring by the UN, other international institutions and independent NGOs?
- intends to continue to fund the Vietnamese government despite that fact that it continually and repeatedly violates its international obligations on human rights, thus also violating the co-operation agreements stipulated with it?
