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Organization: Vietnam Insight
Editor: Chan Tran
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Phone: (408) 226-2261
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:08:40 PDT
From:         Vietnam Insight <vinsight%netcom.com@HUSC6.BITNET>
Subject:      Seminar On Vietnam's Human Rights

SEMINAR ON VIETNAM'S HUMAN RIGHTS
(Vietnam Insight January 1992)

MELBOURNE, Australia: More than a hundred Vietnamese human rights
advocates and foreign friends joined the Free Vietnam Alliance and the
Australian Human Rights Society in a meeting on December 10, 1991 to
address the issue of human rights in Vietnam.

Dr. Bui Trong Cuong began the seminar by eloquently presenting how
Vietnam has turned into one of the most oppressive state on earth
following the end of the war in 1975. "The Vietnamese Communist regime
has literally transformed the entire nation into a prison under its
brutal rule," he said. People have been stripped off basic rights.
Re-education camps (Hanoi's euphemism for prisons) sprouted from North
to South which have been kept full again and again by various flows of
political dissidents. The Vietnamese people since have been perishing
without obvious bloodbath.

Speaking on behalf of the Vietnamese community in Australia, Dr. Pham
Huu Phuoc called on the Australian government to use its diplomatic and
economic influences to pressure Hanoi for respect of human rights.

Political Professor Richard Kerr of Melbourne University expressed
supports for sanctions against the Hanoi regime for "it (Hanoi) is not
the kind that you can reason or reach a consensus with," he said. But
with its current situation, Prof. Kerr believed, Hanoi can be pressured
to do things the regime would not do otherwise.

As human rights violations continue to soar in Vietnam, participants of
the conference including Australian House Representatives Andrew
Theophanous, Ron Wells, and Philip Ruddock of the opposition party
agreed that economic aid and cooperation with Hanoi should be made
contingent to improvements of human rights in Vietnam.

Representing the Free Vietnam Alliance -- an alliance of Vietnamese
Democratic Movements around the globe -- Mr. Le Van Thanh, expressed
concern that foreign aid of any form would only benefit the ruling
apparatus and not the people unless it is used to push forth fundamental
changes in Vietnam. Since the Vietnamese Communist leadership has shown
no willingness to shred its totalitarian system, "the only way to
restore the people's rights in Vietnam is to replace the current
political system by a democratic one," he said.

To help transform Vietnam to democracy in peace, the Free Vietnam
Alliance has formally introduced its "Proposal For Vietnam's Democracy"
on November 16, 1991 in Prague - Czecholosvakia. Hanoi since has
publicly denounced the Alliance and blasted its democratic efforts as
reactionary.

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Chan Tran, editor
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 11:46:50 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Indonesians' Passports Restored
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    Reuter, Jakarta, April 12 - Indonesia has promised to give passports
to 3,000 Indonesians in Australia who have technically lost their
citizenship.
    "Based on the Indonesian ambassador's decision in October 1990, the
Indonesians can renew their passports as long as they can prove they are
citizens," Director General of Immigration Roni Sikap Sinuraya told
reporters on Saturday.
    Under Indonesian law any national who lives abroad for more than
five years and does not reaffirm citizenship by renewing his or her
passport automatically forfeits it.
    "We don't want them to become stateless if they lose their
Indonesian citizenship...but they should show documentary proof that
they are Indonesian," Sinuraya said.
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:07:00 -0700
From:         Long Live Indonesia Raya <MASHUD_WS@CUBLDR.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Malaysian flag GIF

Sorry,
This is for Ian and everybody else that knows the Mac.
How can I FTP something? and then what should I do with the file
after I FTP'ed it to my Classic II?
Do I need any special program to view it?
Can Ian contact me through my email address? mashud_ws@cubldr.colorado.edu
My machine does not show the email path so I do not know his email
address.
Thanks beforehand,

Widjaja
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:06:19 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Suchinda's Reign
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    Reuter, Bangkok, Vithoon Amorn, April 7 - Thailand's bullish economy
will not be harmed if army chief Suchinda Kraprayoon becomes prime minister.
    Analysts expected him to try to calm criticism by retaining popular
policies initiated by his predecessor Anand Panyarachun.
    "He will survive protests. History shows a government with solid
military backing can be stable," Chainarong Intarameesap, chief
executive of consultant firm CSN and Associates Ltd, said.
    He said opposition to Suchinda was mainly focused on his failure to
stand for elections last month but this should fade in a week without
damaging the investment climate.
    He said he was told in recent trips to Europe and Japan that most
foreign investors would accept Suchinda on the grounds the constitution
does not bar a non-elected MP from heading the government.
    "Japanese investment is a good gauge of foreign confidence in
Thailand. It will not be disrupted so long as there's continuity in Thai
economic policies. It will not plunge just because an army general leads
a government," Chainarong said.
    Vorasit Pokachaiyapat, vice president of investment consultant
Finansa Thai Ltd, said Thai economic growth, projected at 8.4 per cent
this year, "will keep its momentum (under Suchinda) as Thai bureaucrats
and technocrats will remain the backbone of formulating and implementing
economic policies."
    "Foreign companies here will be unlikely to react much to his
appointment. They will adopt a business as usual attitude."
    Merrill Lynch said in a report that Suchinda might need to
compromise on easing the Anand government's many sweeping tax and
industrial reforms since Suchinda's cabinet would contain pro-business
politicians from five coalition partners.
    "It is clear that a coalition government will lack the resolve
demonstrated by...(Anand's) caretaker government to deal with difficult
issues," it said, adding it was unlikely economic management would be
left solely to technocrat policy-makers.
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Editor: Chan Tran
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Phone: (408) 226-2261
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:15:47 PDT
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Subject:      Hanoi's Openness Surprises Japaneese Star

HANOI'S OPENNESS SURPRISES JAPANESE STAR
(Vietnam Insight March 1992)

Bursting into tears at Narita airport, 24 year old Honda Minako, a
beautiful young rising star of Japan, who had just returned from Vietnam
recalled: "I never suspected it! I was terrified, thought I couldn't
come back home..."

Chosen to be the main actress for the popular musical drama "Miss
Saigon," Miss Minako visited Vietnam on Feb. 5 in a related fact-finding
trip for the show. Accompanying her was a camera crew of 8. After less
than three days in Saigon, the entire group was arrested by Vietnamese
police who ruthlessly entered their hotel rooms. One hundred fifty rolls
of film were confiscated. The charges were astonishing: they had taken
too many pictures of areas known for prostitution, which could be
translated as an act of ill-intention to humiliate the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam according to the Hanoi authorities.

Eight people were later released with one photographer still detained
for stubbornly refusing to turn over the negatives. It came to light
later that one of the Vietnamese secret agent had posed as a
photographer in disguise to spy on the crew.

Still in tears, Miss Honda Minako related her terrifying experience with
the Vietnamese secret police, calling the entire episode "a bitter
experience with communist Vietnam." She concluded "The Vietnamese
government must respect people's rights and freedom in order to belong
to the civilized world."

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Chan Tran, editor
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:35:02 PDT
From:         "Kevin F. Gaw" <6500GAW@UCSBUXA.BITNET>
Subject:      ENC. BRITT.

Because "H" did not leave his/her addrees, I am in the position to address "H"
via the entire network.  I apologise to others, but not to "H."  "H," you
asked why I asked other fellow networkers about locating a set of the
ency. over a network that discusses SEAsia.  I'm not sure if you wish
to stir something up.  But, to let you know, I was networking, trying to
utilize mass information distribution to enhance my chances of finding a
set.  You know, I agree with you that this net is not a "for sale" BBS.
It is unfortunate that you perceived my request as a for sale type of request,
since I was addressing fellow networkers and not the random public.  Oh
well, if you feel you must comment on something, I guess it is ok to rip
into my request.

Really, I don't care.

Good luck, "H."

Kevin

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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:19:16 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      President Santiago?
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    Reuter, Manila, April 16 - A tough-talking former judge has emerged
as the clear favourite of Manila voters in the run-up to Philippine
presidential elections in May, according to a poll published on
Thursday.
    The private ABS-CBN radio-television network said 45 per cent of
those voters in the capital who were polled in March picked Miriam
Santiago.
    Former defence chief Fidel Ramos ran a distant second with 15.2 per
cent, despite backing from President Corazon Aquino, the network said.
    It said tycoon Eduardo Cojuangco was third with 7.9 per cent and
former first first lady Imelda Marcos fourth at 4.6 per cent.
    Manila has 4.6 million of the country's 30 million voters. The poll
did not represent opinions in the provinces, where party machines play a
powerful role in mobilising voters.
    The poll was taken before Cojuangco secured popular movie actor
Ernesto Estrada as his running mate. The network did not say how many
people were polled or why it waited so long to release the results.
    Santiago, who has consistently topped nationwide surveys conducted
by other poll groups, has been the target of newspaper assertions that
she was subject to fits of depression and had undergone psychiatric
treatment.
    A combative ex-judge and former immigration chief, Santiago gained a
wide following after she fired corrupt officials at the graft-ridden
immigration bureau.
    She has called her rivals "political cockroaches."
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:50:33 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Kachins Lose Battle
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    Reuter, Rangoon, April 10 - The Burmese Army has defeated
pro-independence Kachin rebels in a series of battles near the Chinese
border, the Working Peoples' Daily said on Friday.
    Columns of Rangoon's Northern Command launched an offensive against
the Third Brigade of the Kachin Independence Army on April 3, the
official government newspaper said.
    Soldiers of the Third Brigade fled from their main camp in disarray
on Thursday, it said, after being attacked in 16 skirmishes and 12 major
battles.
    The bodies of 23 Kachin were found.
    Ten Rangoon soldiers died and 15 were injured in the fighting
against the Kachin, one of a dozen ethnic minorities seeking autonomy,
the newspaper said.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:15:00 -0700
From:         Long Live Indonesia Raya <MASHUD_WS@CUBLDR.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Harvard holds Forum on East Timor April 12

Well, thank you for telling us about the forum.
I only got it on April 15th.
Could somebody in attendance tell us what goes on in the forum?
Sort of a summary of events.
Thanks,
Widjaja
mashud_ws@cubldr.colorado.edu
N.B.: Did anybody from the Indonesian embassy or Indo. mission at UN atttend
the event?
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Organization: Vietnam Insight
Editor: Chan Tran
Address: PO Box 7826, San Jose, CA 95150, USA
Phone: (408) 226-2261
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:09:32 PDT
From:         Vietnam Insight <vinsight%netcom.com@HUSC6.BITNET>
Subject:      Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Honored By Amnesty

NGUYEN CHI THIEN
The Poet of Freedom
(Vietnam Insight January 1992)

SAN JOSE, California - USA: A long term prisoner of the Vietnamese
Communist regime, yet the most loved poet in Vietnam who is also
regarded as a hero against communist oppression was awarded "Spirit of
Freedom" prize by Aurora Foundation of Amnesty International upon the
1991 Universal Human Rights Day.

Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien was not present to receive the prize
since his captors continue to refuse his rights outside the prison's
door. Under international pressure, he was released from Hanoi's jail
last October only to find his life continues under rigid control.

Like Mrs. Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner who was
also honored by Aurora Foundation this year, poet Nguyen Chi Thien was
prohibited to go abroad to receive the honor despite Amnesty's official
request to the Vietnamese authorities. Amnesty International said it
will seek Hanoi's agreement to go to Vietnam and award the honored poet
in person.

The awards were presented to representatives of the two absent
recipients by founders of Aurora, human rights activist Ginetta Sagan
and singer Joan Baez on behalf of the Amnesty International Group 19 in
San Jose - USA.

According to Mr. Tran Nhu, the poet's close friend of 20 years in
Vietnamese Communist prison, poet Nguyen Chi Thien is in critical health
condition resulting from decades imprisonment and ill-treatment.

The 49- year-old poet was first detained in 1958 for his voice against
the communist system. This relentless freedom-loving poet subsequently
spent most of his life behind bar, moving from one jail to the other,
and encountered many dark sides of the oppressive system such as massive
imprisonment of children, long term detention that extends through
generations... which he reflects through his outstanding work.

He was released in 1975 and was arrested again in 1979 after passing his
poems and a letter requesting their publication to a foreign diplomat.


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Let us suppose the Party and Uncle Ho,                             *
Allowed the people to freely come and go.                          *
Grandfather Marx's Paradise,                                       *
Would soon become -- a deserted land abandonned by everyone.       *
                           Nguyen Chi Thien                        *
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Chan Tran, editor
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:36:56 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      US Base in Singapore
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    Reuter, Singapore, April 10 - An advance party of 100 U.S. naval
personnel will arrive in Singapore this month to set up a naval
logistics base, the island state's Ministry of Defence said on Friday.
    Singapore agreed with Washington earlier this year to host a
logistics command of the U.S. seventh fleet, now based at Subic Bay in
the Philippines.
    "The unit will start functioning in July and will be completely
built up by December 1992," a ministry statement said.
    The U.S. navy has named the unit in Singapore the Commander,
Logistics Group Western Pacific, it added.
    The unit at Subic Bay was called Commander Task Force 73 and the new
name reflects a shift towards increased use of commercial services and
dockyards not under the control of the U.S. navy, it said.
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:46:30 PDT
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Subject:      Dutch Strategy Fails
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   IPS, Amsterdam, April 6 - The Dutch government's policy linking
development aid to human rights has backfired, leaving the country
isolated after Indonesia broke off development ties with its former
colonizer last week, experts say.
   Nico Schulte Nordholt, professor of Asian development issues at
the University of Tiente, said the Dutch decision to freeze development
aid did not have enough backing from other European countries, the
United States or Japan.
   "Indonesia played the diplomatic game much better and succeeded in
isolating the Netherlands," he said.
   Schulte Nordholt said Dutch Development Cooperation Minister Jan
Pronk is now "broken-winged" and his policy of linking aid to human
rights has failed, at least in the short term.
   He said Third World governments are "not very happy" with the
conditions for development aid and can always point to Pronk's failure
if other Western countries also try to link aids to human rights.
   In the Netherlands, the Indonesia affair has sparked an internal
crisis, with Pronk in the center of the controversy, said Schulte
Nordholt.
   An interview this week with the Dutch paper Het Algemeen Dagblad in
particular drew criticisms from Dutch politicians.
   Pronk said a "new political generation" might be needed in Indonesia
before relations could be restored, since the colonial past is still too
vivid in the mind of the present government -- a statement he reiterated
at a press conference Apr. 1.
   Schulte Nordholt said Pronk's remarks reflected his "personal rancor"
towards Indonesian President Suharto. They have turned the issue into a
"crisis" and led to political attacks on Pronk.
   Pronk faced a series of criticisms during a debate in parliament Apr.
2. The Christian Democratic Party (CDA) and the Liberal Opposition Party
(VVD) said he should no longer have anything to do with Dutch-Indonesian
relations, which fall under the responsibility of Foreign Minister Hans
Van Den Broek.
   But retired professor Wim Wertheim said Jakarta just wanted to get rid
of the Netherlands as a critical donor and permanent chair of the
Inter-Governmental Group for Indonesia.
   Indonesia has asked the World Bank to take over the presidency, held
by the Netherlands since its founding in 1967.
   "The World Bank believes IGGI has served Indonesia well and would
have continued to do so. However, the World Bank respects the Indonesian
government's wishes to establish a consultative group. The bank will
consult with the relevant governments and inform (Jakarta of its
decision)," a bank spokesman said.
   Indonesia received $4.75 billion in loans and credits at last year's
IGGI meeting, mostly coming from the World Bank and Japan.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:11:24 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      EP Burma Embargo Call
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    Reuter, Strasbourg, France, April 9 - The European Parliament called
on Thursday for a U.N. arms embargo against Burma to protest against
alleged human rights abuses.
    A resolution passed by members of the European Community (EC)
assembly said the parliament was appalled by reports of military
persecution of Burmese Moslems, known as Rohingyas.
    More than 215,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh from the army's
alleged brutalities, which are being investigated by the United Nations.
    The parliament called on EC member states to offer maximum aid to
Bangladesh to help it to cope with the refugees.
    It suggested imposing multilateral trade sanctions on Burma, urged
EC pressure to delay aid programmes and said other Asian countries
should stop importing Burmese timber, saying the exports financed
Rangoon's arms purchases.
    The EC assembly also called for the immediate release of Nobel Peace
Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for
Democracy, and other political prisoners.

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    Parliament calls for sanctions against Burma
    Thursday, 9 April - Following the warning by the UN
Secretary-General that the repressive policies of the Burmese
authorities were threatening the destabilisation of the whole region and
appalled by the reports of the persecution of minorities resulting in
the flight of many tens of thousands of refugees to Bangladesh and
India, Parliament adopted a resolution which states that the time has
come for the EC and its member states to take the lead in imposing
sanctions, starting with a mandatory ban on the supply of arms to Burma
via the United Nations.
    Parliament would like to see multi-lateral trade sanctions against
Burma and postponement of UN aid programmes, with the exception of
UNICEF action.  The possibility of establishing 'safe havens' in
Bangladesh for refugees is also mooted. Finally, the resolution strongly
reiterates the call for the immediate release of the Nobel and Sakharov
Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners.
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