Officials cavalier or ineffective in face of murder, destruction.
June 7, 2013 By Our Vietnam Correspondent
(Morning Star News) – In February, sustained night-time attacks by “villagers with the hand of the government behind them” in Vietnam’s Central Highlands destroyed the homes and thousands of coffee plants of ethnic Sedang Christians. Eventually four families in Ngoc La village,Tumorong District, Kontum Province – 19 people in all – were forced to flee for their lives.
They were taken in by the president of their Christian Mission Church, who lives in Kontum Province, where they remain to this day (see Morning Star News, Feb. 26).
After various levels of the government received numerous pleas and written petitions for redress, in May officials promised a solution was imminent. A Christian in contact with the displaced Christians said Tumorong officials and provincial police began negotiations with them in May.
Read more: http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/vietnam-stonewalls-efforts-to-rectify-religious-rights-abuses/
