Despite the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union, Vietnam remains one of the five communist countries left in the world. Much like other communist countries, the Vietnamese government suppresses freedom of religion, press, and association. Intellectuals, writers, reporters, and religious leaders who oppose the communist regime are often incarcerated and face degrading treatment. The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) neither respects nor recognizes the basic human rights for its citizens.
According to the British Standards Institution (BSI) and the Human Rights Watch Annual Report, Vietnam is among the five nations that commit the most human rights violations—ranging from arbitrary criminal justice systems to unmediated human trafficking markets
For those Vietnamese who are fed up with the country’s status quo, there are movements such as “We Are One.” Launched in March 2015 by 27 civil associations in Vietnam, the movement fights for freedom, democracy, and human rights in Vietnam. The movement’s first stage was to call on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to address human rights issues in the communist country. This was followed by a petition initiated by the Human Rights Relief Foundation in June that gathered 50,000 signatures to prompt the UNHRC to call on its member states to act in order to improve Vietnam’s human rights record.
Now in its second phase, the movement has set up several hunger strikes around the world to protest the CPV’s human rights abuses and the party’s disregard for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Why hunger strikes? The overlords will have less people to feed and they can rid of some people at the same time. Win/Win for the commies.
Another problem caused by Democrats. Communist Viet Nam.
I agree – they should stage massive eating contests instead!
I think what you meant to say was, “…one of the five ‘openly’ communist countries.” For example, the second plank of Marxist Communism is, “a progressive (graduated), punitive income tax system.” You know…like ours!!! And that’s just for starters, there are a lot more than five countries infected with the evil scourge of communism.
Darn, my mother always said to eat everything on my plate because Chinese kids were starving and now still I have too because of the Vietnamese kids!
We had them on the ropes. The Viet Cong were done. We bacame pussies and ran.
We fucked over good people, unlike the scum coming across our southern border.
Not to worry; the U.S. doing it’s best to become #6.
You Vietnamese kids can blame your parents for this; they had their chance at freedom from 1964-1973.
The Vietnamese as well as the Cambodians deserved far better than what happened when we abandoned them (mostly the work of the democraps Frank Church etc. and nasty, vile anti Americans like Bill Ayers and his ilk) in 1975 to the takeover by the North Vietnamese communists. We should have won that damned war. And popular opinion be damned, we won the Tet offensive in early 1968 and should never have let Walter Cronkite and CBS news etc. lead us to have believed otherwise.
Wrong flag in the picture.