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Vietnam News Jan 21 Vietnam-US Society calls Washington Times' article a shameless fabrication The Vietnam-US Society described a recent article entitled 'Terrifying Abuses in Vietnam,' carried by the Washington Times on January 13, as a shameless fabrication. In a letter dated January 19 to the Washington Times' editorial board, the Vietnam-US Society pointed out that the paper's January 13 article written by Michael Benge, a senior adviser to the Montagnard Human Rights Organisation, distorted the situation in the Central Highland region of Tay Nguyen, and slandered Vietnam's policies toward ethnic minority people. The letter read: "The US war in Vietnam killed more than three million people and left behind it extremely severe consequences. For nearly 30 years now, the Vietnamese people have been living in peace, exercising their policy of national unity, giving mutual assistance to one another, including help to the Tay Nguyen people to build a better life". "We have learnt that the article's author - Michael Benge - has been serving as a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch. He had directly engaged in the US war in Vietnam for many years. Since then he has kept carrying out sabotage acts against Vietnam, helping hostile forces to hinder the normalisation of Vietnam-US relations. He plotted to use human rights, religion and ethnic issues to cause instability in and act against Vietnam. The Vietnamese people and people with conscience and goodwill in the US strongly condemn the slanderous allegations against Vietnam, considering it an act running counter to the progress of the normalisation process of Vietnam-US ties." "The Vietnamese people have put aside the past and are looking toward the future. We call on the US Congress and people not to be deceived by people like Michael Benge, as well as not to allow them to undermine the existing relations between the two countries," the letter said. The Vietnam-US Society is a mass organisation whose aim is to boost mutual understanding, friendship and co-operation between the peoples of Vietnam and the US. (VNA) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
