Thanks for the heads-up.
From the public information one generally hears these days in the news, Vietnam has basicly been 'cleansed' of any negatives from the past. All mentions of the nation seem positive and devoid of any hint of a problem with the present government. Nobody seems to remember the aftermath of the Vietnam war in Vietnam.
No actors call press conferences to decry anything negative Vietnam has done or is doing. It's as if it exists in a void, and is the only entity allowed to issue press releases about itself, all positive.
The media group-think going on right now with regard to Vietnam causes me to scratch my head from time to time.
Thanks for the report.
This is a matter of the highest conscience. Please email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov to request he meet with Vietnamese dissidents, as he has with Sharansky and Khang, to highlight the oppression in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese, minorities, religous, and political dissidents are truly sent to "gulags" (Senator Durbin, take note).
The only chance they have for even a little lessening up by the thugocracy in Hanoi is the pressure of the U.S. press, in exchange for our trade to keep the corrupt and aging Politburo in power.