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Vietnam and Russia agreed last September to cut the Soviet-era debt, previously estimated at $11bn, by 85% and to allow for repayment of the rest over 23 years....

Russian Deputy Prime Minister

He said that the two countries were discussing using the payments for three purposes - reinvestment in Vietnam, training Vietnamese specialists in Russia or covering the debt with goods.

"Concerning the goods, they are supplies of rice and coffee to Russia and third countries," he said....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1195414.stm
Sau khi thương lượng để trả nợ cho Nga bằng gạo và cà phê vào năm 2001 thì chính phủ CHXHCNVN cho công an và quân đội cưỡng chê´ lâý đât´ của dân. Có cả ngươì dân tộc Kinh cũng bị cưỡng chê´ lâý đât´, chư´ không riêng gì ngươì các dân tộc thiểu sô´.

Vietnam to send extra police to troubled highlands

(Reuters, July 17, 2001)

HANOI - Vietnam's public security minister plans to send extra police to a province in the volatile Central Highlands, where members of minority hill tribes staged protests over land and religious rights in February and March.

The official Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police) newspaper quoted Le Minh Huong on Tuesday as saying after an inspection tour that the police were needed in Kontum province as reinforcements, but gave no reason for the move.

Huong urged the local police force to do a better job to solve "problems at grass-roots level" and prevent "sudden situations and hot spots in rural areas."

Large numbers of minority hill people protested over land and religious rights in highland provinces in February and March in the worst unrest to hit communist Vietnam in years.

The rattled authorities sent in large numbers of police and troops to restore order.

The paper said Huong was told in Daklak and Gia Lai provinces that local authorities had stabilised the situation and defused "plots and activities of extremists who took advantages of religion and ethnic minority issues to cause disturbances."

Former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam Douglas "Pete" Peterson, who left Vietnam on Sunday, gave a mixed report last week after making a fact-finding tour of the highlands.

He said the provinces of Lam Dong and Daklak were "clearly focused" on finding solutions to problems caused by large-scale migration into ethnic minority areas and economic, social and political marginalisation of indigenous people.

He added that Gia Lai was following a "misguided" policy of focusing on security rather than such problems.

Hundreds of minority people fled the crackdown to Cambodia and 38 were permitted to resettle in the United States, a decision that angered Hanoi. Around 400 remain in Cambodia.

Hanoi has said they would not be punished if they returned under a U.N. voluntary repatriation plan, but U.S.-based activists who visited Cambodia on a fact-finding mission last week said they should not be sent back due to safety concerns.

State media earlier this week quoted Prime Minister Phan Van Khai as telling a government meeting in Daklak province last week that more farm land and investment for ethnic minorities should be provided in the highlands.

http://wwrn.org/articles/11908/?&section=persecution

Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts Over Land and Religion in Vietnam ...

http://books.google.de/books?id=5y57...hlands&f=false


Thứ tư 09 Tháng Năm 2012

Tây Nguyên: Thêm một số người bị bắt vì hoạt động « chống phá chính quyền »

Theo tin từ báo chí trong nước, hôm qua, 08/05/2012, công an tỉnh Gia Lai, phối hợp với lực lượng cảnh sát cơ động Bộ Công an, đã bắt giữ một số người ở ba làng thuộc tỉnh Gia Lai
... những vụ biểu tình bạo động tại Tây Nguyên từ năm 2001. Trong những năm 2001 và 2004, người dân thuộc nhiều sắc tộc thiểu số ở Tây Nguyên, đa số theo Thiên chúa giáo, đã biểu tình rầm rộ để phản đối các vụ trưng thu đất đai và đàn áp tôn giáo. Những cuộc biểu tình này đã bị đàn áp thô bạo, khiến hàng ngàn người đã phải chạy sang Cam Bốt tỵ nạn.

Cho tới nay, vùng Tây Nguyên vẫn bị kiểm soát rất chặt chẽ và rất ít phóng viên được đặt chân đến đây.

http://www.viet.rfi.fr/viet-nam/2012...B-chong-pha-ch