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Whereas to avoid possible sanctions or other ‘‘commensurate 
actions’’ recommended by section 405 (b) of the IRFA, 
in May 2005 the United States and Vietnam reached a 
‘‘binding agreement’’ consistent with section 405 (c) of 
the IRFA; 
Whereas although the terms of that ‘‘binding agreement’’ 
have never been fully publicized, the United States Com-
mission on International Religious Freedom 2006 Annual 
Report stated that the United States agreed to lift the 
CPC designation if the Government of Vietnam fully im-
plemented legislation on religious freedom and rendered 
previous contradictory regulations obsolete, instructed 
local authorities strictly and completely to adhere to the 
new legislation to ensure compliance, facilitated the proc-
ess by which religious congregations are able to open 
houses of worship, and gave special consideration to pris-
oners and cases of concern raised by the United States 
during the granting of prisoner amnesties; 
Whereas the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), 
the Hoa Hao Buddhists, and the Cao Dai groups con-
tinue to face unwarranted abuses because of their at-
tempts to organize independently of the Vietnamese Gov-
ernment, including the detention and imprisonment of in-
dividual members of these religious communities; 
Whereas in September 2009, Vietnamese police cordoned off 
a Lang Mai Buddhist monastery, and monks were beat-
en, degraded, and sexually assaulted by undercover po-
licemen and civilians; 
Whereas Protestants continue to face beatings and other ill- 
treatment, harassment, fines, threats, and forced renunci-
ations of faith; 
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Whereas 
according 
to 
Human 
Rights 
Watch, 
355 
Montagnard Protestants remain in prison, arrested after 
2001 and 2004 demonstrations for land rights and reli-
gious freedom in the Central Highlands; 
Whereas according to the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom, there are reports that 
some Montagnard Protestants were imprisoned because 
of their religious affiliation or activities or because reli-
gious leaders failed to inform on members of their reli-
gious community who allegedly participated in dem-
onstrations; 
Whereas Ksor Tino, a Degar Christian, died on September 6, 
2009, after being detained in a Plei Ku city prison and 
being tortured repeatedly with electric prods and severe 
physical punishment for refusing to join a government 
sanctioned religion; 
Whereas, on November 11, 2010, hundreds of Vietnamese po-
lice violently attacked a Catholic prayer service in the Gia 
Lai Provence, leaving 9 of the beaten unconscious from 
strokes to the head; 
Whereas according to the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom 2010 Annual Report, re-
ligious freedom advocates and human rights defenders 
Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thi Cong Nhan, and Fr. Thaddeus 
Nguyen Van Ly are in prison under Article 88 of the 
Criminal Code and Fr. Phan Van Loi is being held with-
out official detention orders under house arrest; 
Whereas at least 15 individuals are being detained in long 
term house arrest for reasons related to their faith, in-
cluding the most venerable Thich Quang Do and most of 
the leadership of the UBCV; 
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Whereas UBCV monks and youth groups leaders are har-
assed and detained and charitable activities are denied, 
Vietnamese officials discriminate against ethnic minority 
Protestants by denying medical, housing, and educational 
benefits to children and families, an ethnic minority 
Protestant was beaten to death for refusing to recant his 
faith, over 600 Hmong Protestant churches are refused 
legal recognition or affiliation, leading to harassment, de-
tentions, and home destructions, and a government hand-
book on religion instructs government officials to control 
existing religious practice, halt ‘‘enemy forces’’ from 
‘‘abusing religion’’ to undermine the Vietnamese Govern-
ment, and ‘‘overcome the extraordinary growth of Prot-
estantism.’’; 
Whereas since August 2008, the Vietnamese Government has 
arrested and sentenced at least eight individuals and 
beaten, tear-gassed, harassed, publicly slandered, and 
threatened Catholics engaged in peaceful activities seek-
ing the return of Catholic Church properties confiscated 
by the Vietnamese Government after 1954 in Hanoi, in-
cluding in the Thai Ha parish; 
Whereas local police and mobile ‘‘anti-riot’’ police attacked a 
funeral procession in the Con Dau parish on May 4, 
2010, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets, beating resi-
dents with batons and electric rods, injuring 100, and 
killing at least one; and 
Whereas the United States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom, prominent nongovernmental organiza-
tions, and representative associations of Vietnamese- 
American, Montagnard-American, and Khmer-American 
organizations have called for the redesignation of Viet-
nam as a CPC: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly encourages the Department of 
State to place Vietnam on the list of ‘‘Countries of 
Particular Concern’’ for particularly severe violations 
of religious freedom; 
(2) strongly condemns the ongoing and egre-
gious violations of religious freedom in Vietnam, in-
cluding the detention of religious leaders and the 
long-term imprisonment of individuals engaged in 
peaceful advocacy; and 
(3) calls on Vietnam to lift restrictions on reli-
gious freedom and implement necessary legal and 
political reforms to protect religious freedom. 
Æ 
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