The United States of America

The White House

Concerning to the US Support

Of Building the Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights

For the Vietnamese People, and

For the US National Benefits in the East Sea

THE VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY

of

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

(VAC-NORCAL)

A Petition to the US President Barack Obama

to request the Vietnamese rulers to release

all political prisoners in Vietnam

August 24, 2011

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

P.O. Box 391063

Mountain View, CA 94039

(408) 242-4056

nguyenngoctien_6@yahoo.com

August 24, 2011

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Barack Obama:

On behalf of the Vietnamese American Community of Northern California (VAC-NORCAL,) all Vietnamese people whose signatures are included in the Annex A, all the political prisoners in Vietnam who are being held in prisons set up by the Vietnamese communists to torture them from souls to bodies, and all the Vietnamese who are being unjustly oppressed because they have courageously raised their voice for justice and human rights for themselves and their brethren, we would like to convey our deepest thank for your precious time reading our Petition from those Vietnamese people that most of them are US citizens.

First we would like to simply go over the wrong doings and crimes that the Vietnamese communists have done to the international community and to the people in our country:

1.      The Vietnamese communists ignored, disrespected the international law, violated the Geneva Treaty 1954 they signed, crossed the 17^th parallel to attack the Republic of Vietnam.

2.      In the 1968 Tet Offensive the Vietnamese communists were the genocide and war criminals when they killed savagely more than 6,000 people in Hue by breaking their heads with hammers and iron bars and then buried them live when they knew they lost the battle to the US forces and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam and were to retreat to the North.

3.      The Vietnamese communists disrespected the international law, violated the Paris Pact 1973 they just signed in fresh ink to attack and occupy illegally the Republic of Vietnam in 1975.

4.      In 1975, they concentrated the RVN officers and the elected representatives in many re-educational camps which were like the concentration camps in the USSR to torment and kill them day by day. The Vietnamese communists expatriated the prisoners to the wild and isolated places in mountainous regions. The number of the prisoners killed by diseases, hunger, and the revenge from the Vietnamese communists is uncountable.

5.      After illegally occupying the Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnamese communists set up a very strict, wicked and dictatorial government to rule the people by hatred and discrimination to take revenge of the people in the South; as a result, millions of people risked their lives leaving the country for freedom by boats or any means they could find out. Consequently, hundreds of thousand people died in the forests, at high sea, and sorrowfully, uncountable Vietnamese women were raped or sold as sex slavery when they were captured by the pirates.

6.      More than 36 years have passed by, but today the Vietnamese communists still keep using the terrorist policy towards the political dissidents or anyone who raised their voice in peace for freedom, democracy and human rights for Vietnam. All of them were thrown into jails without trials or by the ready-made sentences and were not allowed to defend even many of the international community or the US State Department raised concern. Typically, to compare with the French Bastille before the revolution year 1789, the Z30A prison of Xuân Lộc district Ðồng Nai province in Vietnam is the most notorious one that as people disclosed the number of the graves is more than the number of the survived prisoners, i.e. the political prisoners here might be held to death or they died before they were released or at least they became so ill to death or disability.

For all of the above reasons we petition the President to pay particular concern to the Hanoi rulers who are following an anti-democracy, without human rights policy and thus to oppress, pursue to kidnap the innocent, or arrest the political dissidents in Vietnam. We know that for the human purpose and for the protection of the important sea navigation in the East Sea as well as the US strategic and economic benefits that the American people come to Vietnam. However, never were the Vietnamese communist rulers elected by the Vietnamese people via democracy and justice votes to be people’s legal representatives; therefore, while the US compromise with the Communist government in order to protect the US national benefits but forget the true power of the democracy of more than 80 million Vietnamese people in our country who are living in poor conditions and under the iron-clad and dictatorial rule of the Communist government is what we suggest the President to review the US policy in Vietnam. Are the Vietnamese communist rulers honored to be trusted or be honest friends to the American people? The very more than 80 million Vietnamese are the true and the most powerful source of support for the US national benefits in the East Sea as well as the reliable human source to improve the US economy while all of them are looking forward to the US help to improve their livings along with the true democracy and freedom and human rights. They and the political prisoners who are tortured and dying in the Communist prisons are the real US reliable allies. If the US brought to Vietnam the strong wind of the democracy, freedom and human rights then the US national benefits are securely protected and that the US will not necessarily show up their most modern air carriers in the East Sea. The show up of the most modern US air carriers in such a narrow East Sea actually displays the US weakness more than the US strength. It displays the thin and weak connection between the US and the Vietnamese people who now really want their true prestige and power to protect their land and sea like their ancestors once had in centuries ago. While the Vietnamese rulers are corrupted, they thrived themselves and lived in richness and luxury they did not protect their land and sea, they did not thrive the country and improve the people’s living conditions; therefore, they cannot protect the US national benefits and sea routes effectively.

Flashing back the US vision after winning the WWII, the US government came to Japan to support this country to recover from the ruins after the war and help build up the democracy right on this damaged country to avoid the pressure of the USSR; as a result, the Japanese people will not forget their gratitude the American people who restored their country but also they become one of the US credible allies so far. Not long ago, the President has requested the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to make a swift transfer of the power to the bare-handed protesters who gathered in the Tahrir Square just to voice their desire of a new Egypt of democracy and freedom. The US also accepted the just cause of the Libyan rebels through using the US air force to deter the Gadhafi’s advance and also calling NATO to help those poor rebels from being massacred by the Gadhafi’s force while those rebels are struggling for a true democracy against the unreasonable ruling of the four-decaded Libyan dictator Gadhafi. Those futuristic views clearly define the power of the democracy foundation “By the People for the People” that for many centuries the American people has been keeping on the right track for both internal and foreign affairs resolutions.

Today, we believe that the President will strongly raise your voice for a “CHANGE” as a necessary revolution for our Vietnamese people in Vietnam like you have adopted the symbol CHANGE for the American society in the 2008 election race, and you saw the American people applauded the CHANGE. Our Vietnamese people will applaud the “CHANGE” from your heart-felt support. In November 2011 when the President comes to the East Asia and may be you will visit our painful and corruption-ridden country, we believe that the President will strongly voice and urge the Vietnamese people to destine and bind peacefully their lives to the democracy, freedom and human rights ahead. We also petition the President to support the democracy for Vietnam by strongly requesting:

1.      The Communist rulers to release immediately all religious, political prisoners, and the poor Vietnamese citizens who are being held in outnumbered prisons all over Vietnam for having raised their peaceful voices against the un-justice or written articles on blogs expressing their disagreements towards the corrupted rulers. Consequently, the US should lay out necessary measures to keep track and examine the levels of the violation of the human rights and the un-human tortures to the prisoners in the communist prisons; especially, the notorious prison Z30A at Xuân Lộc of  Ðồng Nai province.

2.      The Communist rulers to get rid of using armed secret or public police, in uniform or camouflaged in civil clothes along with weaponry and vehicles to oppress, beat, arrest, or murder the peaceful protesters, religious believers, and all highlanders in order to cover their mouths while these people voice the un-justice and the corruption in the society and for the democracy in Vietnam.

Finally, we deeply thank the President for your precious time reading our Petition, we wish the President a very successful trip to the East Asia and bring back successes about economy, politics and national defense for the United States of America. We also wish the President a bright future of the political career along with the best harvest in the coming years.

May God bless the President and your family.

Sincerely,

Ngoc Tiên Nguyen

Chairman of the Committee of the Representatives of VAC-NORCAL