His crime? Cutting down nine trees to build a hut for his family...
HANG HIM!!
And he was chained to his hospital bed too.
But mccain went there and said it was great.
I can’t believe he would lie or anything.
Just when it seems Vietnam is wriggling out of its communist muck, its government does something stupid such as this.
I was in Vietnam several years ago with my wife. We had a private tour during one part of it and this girl was sharing her life story.
She said she worked in a government owned hotel and was dating a guy who was a Christan. She herself was an atheist, I think. They were holding her back in her job until she broke up with him, which she eventually did. She ended up leaving her hotel job at some point to do tours and her old boyfriend called trying to get back together. However, she had already moved on, married and had children with another guy. Sad story but probably not too uncommon in communist countries.
Part of the history of the Hmong:
“Conflict [in southern China] between the Hmong of southern China [who had been in Southern China since about 2,000 B.C.] and newly arrived Han settlers increased during the 18th century under repressive economic and cultural reforms imposed by the Qing Dynasty. This led to armed conflict and large-scale migrations well into the late 19th century, the period during which many Hmong people emigrated to Southeast Asia. The migration process had begun as early as the late-17th century, however, before the time of major social unrest, when small groups went in search of better agricultural opportunities.[15]”
“The Hmong people were subjected to abuse and killing by the Qing Dynasty government. Kim Lacy Rogers wrote: “In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the Hmong lived in south-western China, their Manchu overlords had labeled them ‘Miao’ (’barbarian’ or ‘savage’) and targeted them for genocide when they defied being humiliated, oppressed, and enslaved.”[16]”
So it has always been, and continues to be with the Han Chinese in China - cultural genocide against all opponents and “minorities”.
Interesting story...
“Surprisingly, no foreign missionaries were physically present in Vietnam’s highlands when Christianity started to spread in the late 1980s. Instead, villagers stumbled across a Hmong-language evangelistic radio program broadcast from Manila. Thrilled by hearing their own language on air, Hmong listeners told neighbors and relatives to tune in as the message spread like wildfire.”
Same thing has happened via satellite TV in Iran.
That and the appearance of Christ in dreams.
God is at work.