| Reason of the question Why bussiness with Vietnam is OK and not with Cuba? [boodskap #33420] |
Di, 15 Augustus 2000 00:00 |
pedro martori
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:24:58 EDT
To: cuba...@multimania.com
From: LavozdeC...@aol.com
Subject: Reason of the question Why bussiness with Vietnam is OK and not
with Cuba?
GENEVA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Vietnam Committee for the Protection of Human
Rights on Tuesday denounced a national highway project in the Communist
country which it said would rely on forced labour.
Vo Van Ai, chairman of the Paris-based group, said that recent legislation
ordering Vietnamese aged 18 and 35 to work without pay 10 days a year on
public construction, violated the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights.
``Only the payment of a 'substitution tax', based on the legal minimum wage,
or presenting a replacement, will get someone exempted from having to
perform
this forced labour,'' Vo told the the U.N. Subcommission on the Protection
and Protection of Human Rights.
``This ordinance is particularly unwelcome in the context of extreme poverty
and growing unemployment in Vietnam,'' he added.
Vo's speech to the U.N. rights forum, holding its annual meeting in Geneva,
followed a statement on Tuesday by five leading environmental groups who
said
that the Ho Chi Minh Highway posed a serious threat to endangered species.
Construction of the highway, which began in April, will eventually run 1,690
km (1,056 miles) from near Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly
Saigon) in the south. The budget for the first phase has been put at $380
million.
The road will follow parts of the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail, a maze of
jungle tracks, named after Vietnam's independence hero, used to move men and
supplies from communist North Vietnam to U.S.-backed South Vietnam during
the
Vietnam War. The war ended with a communist victory in 1975.
``The left wing of the Communist party sees this highway as a huge symbol of
the victory over the Americans,'' Penelope Walker, vice-chairman of the
rights group, told Reuters. ``It is a ridiculous project and will cost a
fortune.''
Vo also condemned ``systematic violations by Vietnamese authorities of the
right to freedom of expression and religion.''
Monks of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam continue to be harassed and
their pagodas destroyed, according to the group.
Thich Huyen Quang, its 83-year-old patriarch held under house arrest in
Quang
Ngai province without trial since 1982, was subjected to ``long
interrogations, acts of harassment and intimidation'' after appealing for
national reconciliation on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon last
April, it added.
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