Members of the government-backed Red Flag group on the attack against Ke Gai parishioner on Dec 17, 2017
Defend the Defenders, May 7, 2018
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An are launching a campaign to persecute Catholic followers in the Ke Gai parish, more than four months when they brutally beat parishioners in a bid to prevent them from upgrading roads in the parish.
According to the Good News for The Poor (GNsP), an independent newswire of the Catholic community in the country, Ke Gai parishioners are worried and upset when the province’s police are summoning two local residents to a police station for interrogation in a case of “illegal detention” on December 17 last year.
Two parishioners namely Nguyen Van An and Vo Dinh Dung were requested to be in the province’s police headquarters on May 7 for their involvement in the case in which Catholic followers held four state officials and requested them to admit the attack of members of the so-called Red Flag group against Ke Gai followers. The Red Flag group is a government-backed group specializing in diseminating hate against the Catholic community.
Defend the Defenders has learned that Mr. Dung and Mr. An denied to receive summon letters while priest Nguyen Duc Nhan of the Ke Gai parish issued a statement saying no followers are obligated to go for interrogation.
Back to the incident on December 2017. Ke Gai followers planned to upgrade a road and dredged an agricultural canal located within the parish. However, authorities in Hung Tay commune, Hung Nguyen district did not agree with their works. They deployed many police and militia to the area and ordered the parishioners to halt their works.
Later, hundreds of members of the Red Flag group, a group of pro-government thugs were sent to the scene on two buses. Under the direction of Nguyen Van Thu, chairman of the Hung Tay commune’s People’s Committee and the presence of the Hung Nguyen district police chief named Luc, the thugs attacked parishioners brutally. Many parishioners, mostly female ones, were assaulted and knocked down on the wet field amid the cold winter. Due to their assaults, may followers suffered severe injuries.
Warned about the attack, followers from surrounding areas gathered to protect the Ke Gai followers. They went to the Hung Tay commune’s public building to seek the chairman to question why he ordered the Red Flag members to beat parishioners, however, he has disappeared. Then followers invited a party’s deputy chief in the commune, the chief of the Hung Nguyen district police and two district officials to acknowledge the assault carried out by Red Flag thugs. Later, the officials were released unhurt.
More than four months of the incident, police in Hung Nguyen tries to probe the case, accusing followers from Hung Tay commune, particular Ke Gai parishioners of conducting illegal detention of state officials.
The move aims to threaten Catholic followers in general, and force Ke Gai parishioners to make compromise in the case by withdrawing their denunciation against the Red Flad, the group that authorities in Nghe An have used to persecute the local Catholic community.
Nghe An province is one of many localities in Vietnam where local authorities are using violent acts to suppress the local Catholic community.
Also in mid-December, authorities in Dien Chau district harassed Catholic community in the Dong Kieu parish in Dien My commune, asking local parishioners to demolish their Christmas cave the local followers have built to celebrate the upcoming Christmas and New Year holiday. Their request met strong protest from followers.
In related case, the US-based NGO namely BPSOS has launched a campaign to lobby the American government to punish the Red Flag for their persecution against Catholic followers. The group of thugs was established last year, and there have been a dozen of Catholic followers in Nghe An have been brutally beaten by its members who also demolished their private residences and vandalized church’s facilities.
According to BPSOS, perpetrators of inhumane acts against Catholic followers should not be allowed to go to the US.
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May 7, 2018
Authorities in Nghe An Launch Campaign Persecuting Catholic Followers after Assaulting Them in Mid-December Last Year
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Members of the government-backed Red Flag group on the attack against Ke Gai parishioner on Dec 17, 2017
Defend the Defenders, May 7, 2018
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An are launching a campaign to persecute Catholic followers in the Ke Gai parish, more than four months when they brutally beat parishioners in a bid to prevent them from upgrading roads in the parish.
According to the Good News for The Poor (GNsP), an independent newswire of the Catholic community in the country, Ke Gai parishioners are worried and upset when the province’s police are summoning two local residents to a police station for interrogation in a case of “illegal detention” on December 17 last year.
Two parishioners namely Nguyen Van An and Vo Dinh Dung were requested to be in the province’s police headquarters on May 7 for their involvement in the case in which Catholic followers held four state officials and requested them to admit the attack of members of the so-called Red Flag group against Ke Gai followers. The Red Flag group is a government-backed group specializing in diseminating hate against the Catholic community.
Defend the Defenders has learned that Mr. Dung and Mr. An denied to receive summon letters while priest Nguyen Duc Nhan of the Ke Gai parish issued a statement saying no followers are obligated to go for interrogation.
Back to the incident on December 2017. Ke Gai followers planned to upgrade a road and dredged an agricultural canal located within the parish. However, authorities in Hung Tay commune, Hung Nguyen district did not agree with their works. They deployed many police and militia to the area and ordered the parishioners to halt their works.
Later, hundreds of members of the Red Flag group, a group of pro-government thugs were sent to the scene on two buses. Under the direction of Nguyen Van Thu, chairman of the Hung Tay commune’s People’s Committee and the presence of the Hung Nguyen district police chief named Luc, the thugs attacked parishioners brutally. Many parishioners, mostly female ones, were assaulted and knocked down on the wet field amid the cold winter. Due to their assaults, may followers suffered severe injuries.
Warned about the attack, followers from surrounding areas gathered to protect the Ke Gai followers. They went to the Hung Tay commune’s public building to seek the chairman to question why he ordered the Red Flag members to beat parishioners, however, he has disappeared. Then followers invited a party’s deputy chief in the commune, the chief of the Hung Nguyen district police and two district officials to acknowledge the assault carried out by Red Flag thugs. Later, the officials were released unhurt.
More than four months of the incident, police in Hung Nguyen tries to probe the case, accusing followers from Hung Tay commune, particular Ke Gai parishioners of conducting illegal detention of state officials.
The move aims to threaten Catholic followers in general, and force Ke Gai parishioners to make compromise in the case by withdrawing their denunciation against the Red Flad, the group that authorities in Nghe An have used to persecute the local Catholic community.
Nghe An province is one of many localities in Vietnam where local authorities are using violent acts to suppress the local Catholic community.
Also in mid-December, authorities in Dien Chau district harassed Catholic community in the Dong Kieu parish in Dien My commune, asking local parishioners to demolish their Christmas cave the local followers have built to celebrate the upcoming Christmas and New Year holiday. Their request met strong protest from followers.
In related case, the US-based NGO namely BPSOS has launched a campaign to lobby the American government to punish the Red Flag for their persecution against Catholic followers. The group of thugs was established last year, and there have been a dozen of Catholic followers in Nghe An have been brutally beaten by its members who also demolished their private residences and vandalized church’s facilities.
According to BPSOS, perpetrators of inhumane acts against Catholic followers should not be allowed to go to the US.