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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (61963)	8/20/2004 9:30:21 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793883

From Today'e e-mail. This is some unfinished business Kerry left behind in Vietnam. I have personally been very involved in working this problem since 1986. The author of this is a personal friend of mine who just recently returned from Cambodia. The Human Rights Bill mentioned at the end was passed by the house by an overwhelming margin of over 400 to 1. It then went to a little senate committee headed by Kerry. He never brought it to the floor for a vote. I am sure his nephew's job as commercial real estate development broker for Vietnam and his wife's investments in the Gap (that makes much if not most) of their product in Vietnamese sweat mills had nothing to do with Kerry letting this piece of legislation die. Hi Gang: As of this morning (evening Cambodian time) 198 Montagnards have made it down from Rattanakiri to Phnom Penh. ALSO, there are MORE coming. UNHCR is still being allowed to bring them to Phnom Penh BUT we do not how long this will last or how many this will allow to seek freedom. There are numerous refugees still in the provinces endangered of being abducted by the Vietnamese Secret Police and provincial and district officials and forcefully returned to Vietnam. Although the Phnom Penh gov't wants them out of country within a month, it has not been decided where they will go. UN, NGO's, and others on the ground are working themselves to the bone to get all the paperwork done. Please keep these dedicated former allies in your prayers and by notifying your Senators that we want the human rights bill passed relating to Vietnam commerce. It has already passed the House.