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Case Number: 2014-1060-F
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RECORD ID: 9801496
NSC/RMO PROFILE
RECEIVED: 27 FEB 98 18
TO: PRESIDENT
FROM: TRAN DUY CHANH
DOC DATE: 22 FEB 98
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KEYWORDS: VIETNAM
HUMAN RIGHTS
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SUBJECT: FREE VIETNAM ORGAN OPPOSITION TO JACKSON VANIK FOR VIETNAM
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DUE DATE: 11 MAR 98 STATUS: C.
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ONG DÔNG VIÊT NAM TV Do TAI HAWAII
Free Vietnam Organization
1496
1220 Aala St., #602
Honolulu, HI 96817
(date)
February 22, 1998
President William Clinton
c/o Mr. Samuel Berger, NSC
2/27/98
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20501
PLEASE STAFF
Dear President Clinton:
We are disturbed by news that your Administration intends to recommend a waiver to the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment for Vietnam. Its communist government continues to violate the human rights of its citizens,
including the right to free emigration.
Vietnam's recent change in the procedure under the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees
(ROVR) only delays the requirement for exit permission until a later stage--applicants approved for
resettlement still need exit permission to emigrate. There is also mounting evidence that local authorities
have invented many different ways other than the denial of exit permission to block access to ROVR.
Beside ROVR, many eligible applicants under the general Orderly Departure Program (ODP) are also
facing problems with exit permission. They include former political prisoners. former U.S. employees,
religious leaders. dissidents, immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. etc. As you may agree. Jackson-Vanik
was not created just for ROVR.
We also would like to call your attention to the deterioration in the general human rights conditions in
Vietnam since the U.S. normalized relations with that country in 1995. More political dissidents and
religious leaders have been imprisoned. Freedom of the press has been much more severely curtailed than
before. And this trends continues.
Last month the Ministry of Interior established a new center to further tighten its grip on the press. In
November 1997, the chief editor of a trade journal was arrested for exposing high-level corruption. In
April 1997, the government promulgated Executive Decree 31/CP. authorizing the administrative
detention of political suspects for up to two years without trial.
The U.S. should not reward Vietnam with trade privileges until its communist government makes
significant concessions on human rights by truly honoring the right of its citizens to freely emigrate, by
allowing free press, and by releasing all political and religious dissidents from its system of prisons and
labor camps.
Sincerely,
Wautuydrank
Tran Duy Chanh
President
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DUE DATE: 11 Mar
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FROM: Tran Duy Chanh
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