This is what Kerry did.....Kerry (D-MA) Inaction Kills Human Rights Legislation
Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christians in Central Highlands...Green Berets for Human Rights ^ | 4-18-2002 | JOHN
Kerry (D-MA) Inaction Kills Human Rights Legislation
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From JOHN HANSCOM - Green Berets for Human Rights @.. www.gb4hr.com ..
KERRY (D-MA) Kills Human Rights
WASHINGTON - Despite growing calls from human rights groups, US Army Special Forces veterans, and pleas from homeless refugees fleeing genocide Senate JOHN KERRY (D-MA) has successfully stalled the Vietnam Human Rights Act (Senate Bill HR-2833) for over half a year. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c107query.html#billno Fetch, then enter H.R.2833
There are 3 versions of Bill Number H.R.2833 for the 107th Congress
H.R.2833.EH Viet Nam Human Rights Act (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)
H.R.2833.IH Viet Nam Human Rights Act (Introduced in House)
H.R.2833.PCS Viet Nam Human Rights Act (Placed on Calendar in Senate)
...The stalled Bill would have sanctioned the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) against further racially based sterilization, terrorism and genocide of the Christian hilltribe Degar peoples living in the Central Highlands region of the country.
...Why is Senator KERRY stalling this vital human rights legislation?
...The Degar tribes people, commonly known to westerners as the -MONTAGNARDS-, are ethnically unrelated to the Vietnamese. The Central Highlands region was never a traditional part of Vietnam. The region has been the home of the Degar tribes for at least a ..1,000.. years.
...With HR-2833 stalled by JOHN KERRY of Massachusetts, the DRV is free to continue without restriction its ethnic cleansing of the Degar Christians in the Central Highlands region in an attempt to gain control of the Degar land and resources.
...As recently as 1970 there were an estimated ..3,000,000.. Montagnards in various tribes living in the region but as a result of Vietnam's ongoing campaign of ethnic terror and extermination, the total population of Montagnards is now ...BELOW 650,000...!!!
...Nearly two thirds of the Montagnards have died in only 32 years, including more than half the male population. This is undisguised genocide.
...This is why HR-2833 was passed without delay through the House of Representatives last summer by a margin of 411 to 1 to bring an immediate halt to this tragic situation. The Bill was then rushed to the Senate where immediate passage was expected due to the urgency of the current situation.
...Then JOHN KERRY entered the picture and people kept dying.
...For over 7 months now, since early September 2001 Senator JOHN KERRY of Massachusetts has deliberately thwarted all attempts to bring HR-2833 to the floor for a vote.
...KERRY deliberate sabotage of the most urgent human rights legislation since the 1950's has caused grave concern in the human rights community, especially because there is no explanation for his position and all attempts to contact the Senator on this issue have been ignored by his office.
...JOHN KERRY needs to do some explaining before this gets worse.
...The Daily Catholic is listing JOHN KERRY as a .."HEROD's HERO".. for having the second worst human rights record in the US Congress.
...A Montagnard source informed us it was common knowledge in the mid-1970's Degar community that there were serious business dealings involving KERRY and the late Secretary of Commerce RON BROWN with the new incoming communist DRV government. Windfall profits of more than ..$500,000.. each for both RON BROWN and JOHN KERRY were reported by this source. A source outside the Degar community relates that KERRY has proposed future business dealings with the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
...Several sources within the US military recall how JOHN KERRY was given a questionable medal for heroism for shooting a man who was already dead or dying in exchange for Kerry's recommending a paper medal in return for another Navy 'hero' who was anxious to get a decoration before his tour was over.
...Has Senator JOHN KERRY been pressured by the DRV to kill or stall Bill HR-2833 in exchange for silence and future favors? Is this why Senator KERRY is so eager to grant Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status for the DRV?
...Kerry's inaction on HR-2833 allows the DRV's genocide and sterilization programs in the Central Highlands region to continue today. Is Senator KERRY going to stall HR-2833 until the region is under complete control of the Vietnamese, all the Degar Montagnard peoples driven out or killed, before KERRY allows the Vietnam Human Rights onto the Senate floor for a vote?
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WASHINGTON - 05.31.01 | "Building a workable, normal, modern trading relationship with Vietnam is in many respects one of the final battles we must fight to end the War in Vietnam. Over the years many of us who fought there worked to win benefits for those who served, from recognition of post-Vietnam stress syndrome to treatment for victims of Agent Orange, and for the accountability John McCain and I sought on our committee on the POW/MIA issue. But there's always been another front on which we've fought, starting with our efforts to have normalized diplomatric relations, to make it possible for the first American President since the end of the War to visit Vietnam, and year in and year out John McCain and I have testified and made our case for a Jackson-Vanik waiver. Now we have an opportunity to really move beyond those annual, short term decisions and build a long term relationship with Vietnam that's in the interests of both nations, and which will continue to secure the United States as a world leader in the global economy, particularly in Southeast Asia."