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Vietnam stops anti-China protest, detains many


Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-vietnam-protest-idUSTRE77K0FF20110821?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29

HANOI | Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:31am EDT

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police detained scores of people taking part in an anti-China rally in Hanoi on Sunday in defiance of a government order to end a string of demonstrations that has stretched three months and put authorities on edge.

One witness said plainclothes police forced around 40 demonstrators onto two public buses and drove them away within minutes of the start of the demonstration. A blogger who has chronicled the demonstrations and has contacts among the regular protesters said at least one bus left with 19 people aboard.

It was the 11th anti-China rally in an unprecedented series of public protests that have taken place nearly every Sunday since early June against what Vietnamese see as China's violations of their country's sovereignty in the South China Sea.

"We're very concerned that protesters were arrested by the police and call for their immediate release," said Phil Robertson, deputy head for Asia of Human Rights Watch.

"Sadly, the over-reaction of the authorities was shown by the fact that the police outnumbered the protesters, and their aggressive actions to prevent the assembly from going forward. These protesters have done nothing wrong, the police should release them unconditionally."

The Hanoi city government on Thursday had issued an order to end "gatherings, demonstrations and spontaneous marches" and threatened to take "necessary measures" against those who defy the order.

In response, 25 prominent intellectuals and others connected to the demonstrations wrote a petition to the Hanoi People's Committee saying the order was unconstitutional. The letter was posted online.

The anti-China demonstrations started after the Vietnamese government made public a case in late May in which it said Chinese patrol ships harassed a Vietnamese seismic survey ship operating in Vietnamese waters.

In addition to Vietnam and China, four other nations -- Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines -- also have competing claims to parts of the South China Sea.

The Hanoi government notice on Thursday said they were interfering with diplomatic efforts in the dispute with China.

The demonstrations have so far not exceeded 300 people, but Vietnam's Communist Party brooks no opposition and analysts say it is nervous about Arab-style protests against autocratic rule.

The blogger, Nguyen Xuan Dien, said police had several people in recent days to urge them to refrain from participating in the protests. Another activist who declined to be identified said "scores" of people had been confined to their homes or otherwise hindered from attending on Sunday.

(Reporting by John Ruwitch, editing by Miral Fahmy)


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Vietnamese police crush anti-China protest


Source: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/08/20/3363885/vietnamese-police-crush-anti-china.html

The Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnamese police swooped in and crushed an anti-China rally Sunday, arresting dozens of protesters who refused to stop chanting and forcing them onto two buses that were driven away.

The move followed stern warnings last week that Hanoi would no longer tolerate the weekly demonstrations that have taken place in the capital for the past 10 weekends over disputed territory in the South China Sea.

About 50 protesters showed up at Hanoi's landmark Hoan Kiem Lake, unfurling banners and shouting anti-China slogans. Main streets in the capital's tourist district were quickly blocked off by police and the protesters were dragged onto public buses by security officers. Many clung to the windows and doors, still shouting from inside while holding up their signs.

"Down with the police who repress patriotic protesters!" one man wearing a Vietnamese flag T-shirt screamed out the window. It was unclear where they were being taken.

"These protesters have done nothing wrong, the police should release them unconditionally," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

A petition that denounced Thursday's order to silence the protests as illegal and unconstitutional was signed by 25 prominent intellectuals and former government officials. It was sent to the Hanoi People's Committee and posted online Friday.

It questioned why the Communist government reversed its earlier announcement that said police had no intention of interfering with the protests following two other similar arrests.

The government said the protests have caused public disturbances and traffic jams and were being led by exiled "hostile forces." Vietnam does not tolerate any threat to its one-party rule, and protests are very rare and typically quashed quickly by police. Public city loudspeakers blasted repeated warnings Sunday for residents to stay away from the protests.

"I am not afraid," said Trinh Tuyet Trinh, who held up a sign before the protest was broken up. She was born in Vietnam but lives in Germany and had traveled to Hanoi to attend the rally. "I am still Vietnamese, and I love my country."

Some observers say tensions between Vietnam and China have eased after Hanoi sent a special envoy to Beijing and a tentative agreement between China and other southeast Asian nations was reached at a regional security meeting last month in Indonesia.

"Vietnamese leaders realize that there are limits as to how far they can press China on the South China Sea issue," said Carlyle Thayer, a Vietnam expert at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Relations between Vietnam and China hit a low-point this summer after Hanoi accused Beijing of interfering with its oil exploration activities. The two sides, along with several other Asian nations, claim all or part of two disputed island chains believed to be rich in natural resources in an area that's home to vital shipping lanes.



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Vietnam anti-China protestors reject order to stop

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Published: 19/08/2011 at 11:32 PM
Online news: Asia

Prominent Vietnamese intellectuals involved in recent anti-China protests on Friday rejected an order to halt their unprecedented rallies, but stopped short of saying they will march again.

Vietnamese protesters hold an anti-China rally in the center of Hanoi on August 14. Prominent Vietnamese intellectuals involved in recent anti-China protests on Friday rejected an order to halt their unprecedented rallies, but stopped short of saying they will march again.
In a petition to Hanoi's People's Committee, the local government, the group called the order illegal and denied its allegations that the protests were linked to "anti-state forces" and had caused public disorder.

"In fact, all these demonstrations took place peacefully and in order," presenting a good image of the citizens' patriotism that had been internationally recognised, said the document signed by 25 people including economists, bloggers, a former vice-minister and a retired general.

It was posted on the popular Ba Sam blog (http://anhbasam.wordpress.com) and on the Nguyen Xuan Dien site (http://xuandienhannom.blogspot.com), which has become a rallying point for the demonstrators.

The government order published Thursday in Hanoi Moi, a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party, said that those who disobey and continue to gather illegally could face "necessary measures".

The demonstrations over a territorial dispute in the tense South China Sea have occurred almost every Sunday since early June and attracted up to 300 peaceful marchers -- including names on the petition.

Two protests in July were forcibly dispersed by police after talks between Hanoi and Beijing, but subsequent rallies were allowed to go ahead.

Overtly political demonstrations are rare in authoritarian Vietnam but analysts said the gatherings initially served Hanoi's purpose in expressing displeasure with Beijing.

The petitioners called the unsigned People's Committee statement illegal. They said it violated the constitutional right to demonstrate and also contradicted earlier comments by Hanoi's police chief, Lieutenant General Nguyen Duc Nhanh.

He was quoted by the Tuoi Tre newspaper website on August 3 as saying the orderly demonstrators were patriotic and police had no policy of harassing or arresting them.

Vietnam and China have a longstanding dispute over sovereignty of the potentially oil-rich Paracel and Spratly island groups, which straddle vital commercial shipping lanes in the South China Sea.

Protests began after tensions flared in May when Vietnam said Chinese marine surveillance vessels had cut the exploration cables of an oil survey ship inside the country's exclusive economic zone.


Source: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/252579/vietnam-anti-china-protestors-reject-order-to-stop

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