Thư gửi Ngoại Trưởng Hoa Kỳ Hillary R. Clinton

The Vietnamese American Community of Northern California (VAC-NORCAL)

PO Box 391063

Mountain View, CA 94039

(408) 242-4056

Nguyenngoctien_6@yahoo.com

24 August 2011

The U.S. Department of State

Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton

2201 C Street NW

Washington, DC 20520

Dear Secretary:

On behalf of the Vietnamese American community of Northern California, all Vietnamese people whose signatures are hereby attached in Annex A, all political prisoners being held in many prisons in Vietnam and all the Vietnamese people who do not have an opportunity to raise their voice to the world community, we would like to say many thanks to the Secretary for sparing your precious time reading this letter and the Petition we send to the President asking him to support the Vietnamese people for the democracy, freedom and human rights in Vietnam.

Dear Secretary,

Our country has been undergoing so many tragedies from inside to outside. Inside our country the lands and mountains in the northern border land were lost to the hands of the North after the Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979. In 2002, the Gulf of Tonkin was delimited unfairly, inappropriate to the UNCLOS international law of the sea, and without the consent of our people causing the loss of tens of thousands of sea mileage and damages to the Vietnamese people living conditions. To the East Sea, the Chinese navy attacked and seized the Paracels on 19 January 1974 and built up their navy and air support base in the Woodland Island. After that the Chinese navy moved further to the South and massacred more than 70 Vietnamese people on the reef of Garma of the Spratlys archipelago on 14 March 1988. Since 2005 the Chinese navy became the ruler in the East Sea, they themselves banned the Vietnamese fishermen to fish in the East Sea from 15 June to mid August every year; as a result, they killed, shot at the Vietnamese fishermen, beat them, tortured them and kidnapped them for ransom. Today, the situation is more critical because the Chinese navy comes close to our internal sea and requests their unreasonable and unlawful nine-lined sea border, their so called cow-tongued sea limit in the East Sea. Inside Indochina, China built dams on upper Mekong River in Xayaburi province of Laos in order to hold water from the upper stream of Mekong river causing loss of water to irrigate the paddy fields. In central highland of Vietnam the communist Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung allowed tens of thousands of unidentified laborers to reside to work for bauxite factories that contaminate the ecological system as the red silt can cause unpredictable dangers to more than twenty million Vietnamese living in the delta of the Mekong River. The number of the unidentified strangers residing inside Vietnam now may be about 1.3 million, and they can enter Vietnam freely by the trails along the corridor of the Indochinese countries.

We know that the Secretary is so busy with the important national issues as well as the global problems and the family that are weighing on your shoulders, but we want to describe the broken-heart pains of our country so that you understand that more than 80 million Vietnamese people desire the freedom, the democracy and the human rights for their self determining the fate of our country before it totally collapses and becomes a second Tibet in Asia. Certainly, nobody will expect that worst situation happen; however, if that becomes true, not only will our Vietnamese people feel pains, but also will the US regret as they did not predict the impending tragedy and did not fulfill the responsibility of a pioneer country who used to build the democracy for countries all over the world. The road to the democracy, the freedom and the human rights is the only policy that helps the Vietnamese people be independent from China, each Vietnamese individual - not the corruption ridden communist regime with the police security force to oppress the people and compromise with the strangers - will be a reliable ally to the US, a fore front, a never-sunk bridgehead to protect the US national benefits in the East Sea. It is also the best measure that the US can save money to protect their national benefits in the East Sea because the Vietnamese people has a very long history of brave struggles to defend their country from being assimilated by the North while the far-reaching influence of the US is being limited because of the shrunk defense budget.

By the way, we enclose our Petition to President Obama in which we petition him to support the democracy, freedom and human rights for the Vietnamese people. Thank you for your time reading our letter and consideration.

May God bless you and your family.

Sincerely,

Ngoc Tien Nguyen

Chairman of the Committee of the Representatives of VAC-NORCAL

Enclosure: 1. The Petition to the President calling for the US support for the democracy, freedom and human rights in for the Vietnamese people. 2. Annex A (The lists of the signatures.) 3. The Vietnamese communists are responsible for the massacre of more than 6,000 civilians in Hue in 1968.