Published: 21-Feb-14 06:19PM
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Vietnam's Foreign Ministry has called for "necessary measures" to prevent violence against Vietnamese living in Cambodia, VietNamNet reported Friday.
The report came six days after a mob beat a Cambodian-born Vietnamese man to death in Phnom Penh amid racist slurs following a minor road accident.
Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh reportedly told a regular news conference in Hanoi on Thursday that Vietnam condemned such incitement of violence.
"We condemn all acts provoking racial violence and have asked the Cambodian authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators to trial, and at the same time to take necessary measures to prevent acts of inciting violence against the Vietnamese in Cambodia," Binh was quoted as saying.
The report came six days after a mob beat a Cambodian-born Vietnamese man to death in Phnom Penh amid racist slurs following a minor road accident.
Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh reportedly told a regular news conference in Hanoi on Thursday that Vietnam condemned such incitement of violence.
"We condemn all acts provoking racial violence and have asked the Cambodian authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators to trial, and at the same time to take necessary measures to prevent acts of inciting violence against the Vietnamese in Cambodia," Binh was quoted as saying.
Vietnamese Communists’ Fear Factor is Rising
Vietnam, a nation of 86 million, has 3.6 million Communist Party members, and maintains a police fore estimated at 1.2 million. In addition, there are military police and special security and secret police forces, including government paid parastatal forces, the religious police, and special killer units such as “Luc Luong 04″ that are used against the ethnic minorities.
Vietnam’s communist regime has recently intensified its repression of activists and dissidents, cracking down harshly on the freedoms of expression, association, and assembly. In January alone, Vietnamese police arrested and detained 1,500 offenders in raids to tighten control over security for the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in North Vietnam.
In Vietnam, bloggers, human rights and religious freedom lawyers, workers and land rights activists, democracy and anti-corruption campaigners, journalists, pastors, priests, Buddhist monks, Christian house-church members and other religious lay-persons, are labeled as dissidents by the regime. All face intimidation, arrest, beatings, torture, imprisonment, and some even death at the hands of the government.
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