(source: philstar.com)
December 02, 2009
HANOI (AP) – Followers of a famed Buddhist monk say they are continuing to suffer police harassment two months after they were forcibly evicted from a monastery in southern Vietnam.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Vietnam Buddhists complain of ongoing harassment
After international pressure, authorities hesitate to crackdown at Phuoc Hue, yet expel 20 refugee Bat Nha monastics from another remote temple
UPDATE
Dec 1, 2009
Vietnamese government authorities hesitate to expel 330 Bat Nha monks and nuns from Phuoc Hue temple, but force 20 refugee Bat Nha monastics to flee Tu Duc temple, several hundred kilometres away in Khanh Hoa Province
UPDATE: Police threaten refugee monks and nuns under siege at Chùa Phước Huệ temple, Bảo Lộc.
September 29, 2009
10.00pm, Vietnam Time (VN): More police have arrived – all are uniformed. They are threatening the Abbot, and are trying to remove a small group of at least 15 monks and nuns
9.10pm, VN: One hundred police are now attempting to forcefully remove monks and nuns from Chùa Phước Huệ temple, Bảo Lộc
8.30pm, VN: [...]
Buddhist Church of Vietnam Visits Bat Nha and is Violently Attacked by Mob
A report taken from Giac Ngo News, of the violent acts perpetrated on a delegation of high monks, representatives the Buddhist Church of Vietnam, by a violent mob outside the gates of Bat Nha Monastery.
A Short History of the Events at Prajna Monastery
LETTER TO THE OFFICIALS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM
Plum Village, June 26, 2009
by Sister True Emptiness
To the respected Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
To all of you who love and support the 400 monastics of Prajna Monastery,
(These young monks and nuns are between the ages of sixteen to thirty-five years old, [...]