The democratic situation of Vietnam is getting worse and worse, in 2019 the Communist Party deployed police forces to suppress people across the country and finally, the international community considers Vietnam’s socialism as appalling.
Vietnam was ranked at 136 out of 167 countries on the Democracy Index in 2019.
Recently, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), an economic and political research and analysis organization of The Economist magazine, Vietnam was ranked at 136 out of 167 countries on the Democracy Index in 2019.
The 2019 Democracy Index report released by EIU on Wednesday showed that Vietnams score was 3.08 points out of 10, ranked 136th out of 167 countries assessed in 2019, and still among the “authoritarian,” the least democratic regimes on the EIU’s rating of four categories from “Full Democracy,” “Flawed Democracy,” to “Hybrid Democracy” and the lowest level is the “authoritarian” regime.
And this is one of the latest evidence in Dong Tam, when the authorities in Hanoi did not dialogue but resorted to guns and bullets to shoot the Vietnamese people in the head” Watch the video of police’s attack in Dong Tam commune.
Vietnam, with its one-party and authoritarian regime, is now getting deeper and deeper into the worst human rights suppression cases
In the group of authoritarian countries in Asia, Vietnam is “more democratic” than Afghanistan, China, Laos and North Korea but less than Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Nepal, according to EIU ratings.
North Korea, reaching 1.08 points, was still the bottom country while China reached 2.26 points, falling to 153rd , below Vietnam, compared to last year when China was classified as “more democratic” than its “neighboring Vietnam.”
Only four countries in Asia, Vietnam, China, Laos and North Korea, received zero marks in the pluralism and electoral process. This is one of five categories counted in the Democracy Index. Other categories include governmental activity, civil liberties, political participation, and political culture.
The conclusion of the EIU is that Vietnam remains one of the fastest growing economies in the Asia-Pacific region in the medium term, and one of the countries that will most benefit in the US-China trade war.
EIU predicts that over the next few years, the Vietnamese government will continue to pursue trade liberalization, including promoting foreign direct investment, but efforts to restructure state-owned enterprises will be slow. EIU said that political reform will not occur in the period of 2019-2023.
The EIU said 2019 was the dark year for global democracy with the worst outcome since 2006. In this report, the United States reached 7.96 points out of 10, ranked 25; Norway is the world’s most democratic country at the top of the table, followed by Iceland, Sweden and New Zealand.
The case of priest Nguyen Van Ly is a famous case of Vietnam’s democratic repression, causing huge stir in public opinion. He was arrested and tried many times and the last time was on March 30, 2007, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
The trial of him saw a law enforcement officer silenced him and the image became immortal.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet told CNN interview that during the trial Mr. Ly had bad words at the court, so that a plainclothe agent sealed his mouth with his hands. However, Triet admitted that the policeman’s act was bad and personal mistake.
However, this photo has a huge accusation of Vietnam’s human rights situation.
Lawyers Nguyen Van Dai and lawyer Le Thi Cong at the trial in 2007. Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, founder of the Brotherhood for Democracy, said on the occasion of the human rights campaign in Washington DC:
“In 2019, the number of the detentions decreased compared to a year earlier because in 2018, there was the mass arrest on June 10’s mass protests.
In 2019, they focus more on arresting people with opposing voices and more influence in society than in 2018. In November 2019 alone, up to 20 peaceful activists were brought to court, sentenced to a total 120 years of imprisonment. It was dark month in the state of human rights in Vietnam. ”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says there are currently 130 political prisoners in Vietnam while the Committee for Journalist Protection (CPJ) says up to 12 reporters are currently detained. However, The 88 Project says the total number of activists being jailed by the Vietnamese government is 276 people.
Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, director of Vietnam’s Defend the Defenders, who has just been awarded with Human Rights and Rule of Law Award by the French and German Ministries of Foreign Affairs of France in 2019, said:
“Vietnam’s violation of human rights has been more serious and challenging. This has been the worst year in recent years. The Vietnamese communist regime no longer attaches importance to and is faltered by the opinions and criticisms of the global community in general about the suppression of human rights. It is a challenging attitude of the Vietnamese communist regime. “
Plainclothes police arrested Tuan Do (third from left) and Truong Ba Khong (second from right) during anti-Chinese protest in Hanoi
This is a picture of protesters protesting against China infringing on Vietnam’s sovereignty, surrounded by plainclothes police.
Vu Quoc Ngu, director of Defend the Defenders, said that the recent arrests of Facebookers and dissidents with less popularity show that “the level of suppression in Vietnam is getting more serious, spreading to small localities, not just in big cities.”
Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu said “After a period in which the Ministry of Public Security arrested prominent dissidents, the recent trend is the Ministry of Public Security giving green light to localities to arrest people with less popularity in some provinces such as Lam Dong, An Giang, Can Tho, Dong Nai, Ben Tre and other small provinces.”
“This proves that the local government also wants to suppress the protests from the bud. And on this occasion, the local police also want to arrest more people in order to get rewards and promotions.”
Ms. Nhu Quynh commented when talking about VCMF’s advocacy goals “This year, VCMF Fund’s campaign for freedom and democracy in Vietnam will pay more attention to Vietnam.
In the eyes of Western friends, one can never imagine that Vietnam is imposing lengthy sentences for those who express such a peaceful opinion!”
The war has receded into the past, but in Vietnam, the ruling party is using gunfire, batons and the vicious prison to supress the local dissent.
Such an inhuman institution would not be allowed to exist in a world of civilization and global connectivity today.
There will come a time when over 90 million Vietnamese people will show their bravery and courage to win the rights of Democracy and Freedom for themselves and their future offspring.
Trung nam from Da Nang – Thoibao.de (Translated)
