The UK Embassy in Hanoi has “requested a meeting with the Vietnamese Government”, helpbatnha.org has learned today.
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Situation critical as authorities turn to psychological tactics
UPDATE: VIETNAM attacks on monks and nuns
PRESS RELEASE
from helpbatnha.org
5 Oct. 2009
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Buddhist sect decries lack of religious freedom in communist Vietnam
After being forced from their monastery last week, 354 followers of a world-famous monk face new police pressure to leave the temple where they sought refuge.
By Simon Montlake | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the October 5, 2009 edition
REUTERS blogs: Vietnam’s not-so-simple eviction of Buddhist monks and nuns
08:47 October 5th, 2009
REUTERS, John Ruwitch [original article]
A government-backed mob in Vietnam about a week ago booted nearly 400 Buddhist monks and nuns out of a monastery in the centre of the country, bringing an apparent end to an ugly standoff with complicated origins. The incident has raised questions about the ruling Communist Party’s commitment to progress [...]
Global Sitting For Bat Nha
This coming Sunday October 4th, 2009, thousands of people from Sanghas and communities around the world will sit together to give support to our Brothers and Sisters in Vietnam so that they can continue to practice freely together.
Let us come together and sit for 15 to 30 minutes. If you are at home, sit. If [...]
Bat Nha Crisis: TIMELINE
2005
February – Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh returned to Vietnam with the government’s blessing, aged 80 after 39 years of exile. He had been banned from returning to Vietnam in 1966 after visiting the U.S. and Europe on a peace mission to call for an end the Vietnam war.
Leading human rights expert demands investigation into attacks on Bat Nha monks and nuns
The monks’ and nuns’ “most basic human rights were violated” when they were violently evicted from Bat Nha “without any kind of legal process,” said Secretary General of the International Service for Human Rights, Mr. Vũ Quốc Dụng.
Letter to All People of Conscience In Vietnam and Outside of Vietnam
Letter from Historian Nguyen Lang,
Author of the three-volume series, A Critical Review of the History of Vietnamese Buddhism
Source: in Vietnamese from [Phusaonline]
Dear friends,
We beg you to raise your voice in time to protect 400 young people who are surrounded and under grave and imminent threat of attack at the Phuoc Hue Temple in Bao Loc [...]
The Elder Brothers Are in House Surveillance without Proper Charges
The three elder brothers of the Bat Nha community have been separated from their younger brothers, almost all of whom are between the ages of 15 and 25. The police have brought Brother Phap Hoi many hundreds of miles away from the community, to Hanoi, in the north of Vietnam. His identity papers have been [...]
Leaked memo reveals government role in religious oppression
This leaked memo from a communist party official blatantly contradicts the Vietnamese Government’s claim that they have nothing to do with the oppression of the Bat Nha monks and nuns. In this memo the Vietnamese Government openly orders all Party members to distribute propaganda accusing the Bat Nha monks and nuns of illegal activities and sabotaging [...]