After 25 years of monopolized power, the CPV has failed to build a free, democratic and prosperous Vietnam, falling far short of Vietnamese people s legitimate aspirations of happiness and well-being. However, all the reforms that have been implemented to date are designed simply to protect CPV s monopoly and to maintain its obsolete political, social and cultural system. In the name of political stability, the CPV leadership has continued to suppress differing voices with measures ranging from isolation to imprisonment to covert killings. They have continued to violate the basic human rights and civil rights as stipulated in the very international documents to which communist Vietnam is a signatory. Running Vietnam as one-party totalitarian state, the CPV is presently the biggest barrier to building prosperity and peace in Vietnam, thus running counter to today s trends and principles of social development.
Society is both a creation of human beings and an environment for human development.
For this reason, in order for a society to be in concordance with humanist values, it must be organized in such a way as to secure both unity and stability while fostering opportunities for all social groups to grow to their full potential. Social stability can only be achieved through national consensus. All efforts to impose monopoly upon stability run the risk of countering humanity s autonomous actions and at the same time destroying the pluralistic nature of society. Unity in diversity is increasingly becoming a guiding principle for all relations, national and international. The articles of human rights and civil rights drafted in such international documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are in conformity with these principles.