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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (755768)	12/7/2006 10:40:20 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry Floppy... but you seem to be confused or behind the times: US Department of State: In September 2004, the Secretary of State designated Vietnam as a "Country ... to convict religious prisoners contradict the right to freedom of religion. ...Respect for religious freedom remained fundamentally unchanged; while it slightly improved in practice for many practitioners, it remained poor or even deteriorated for some groups, notably ethnic minority Protestants and some independent Buddhists." state.gov Center for Religious Freedom: "Vietnam Still Pressuring Hmong Christians" freedomhouse.org UN Report on Freedom of Religion in Vietnam fva.org Human Rights Watch issues 200-page report accusing government of Vietnam of wide range of abuses against hill tribes of Central Highlands, including crackdown on unapproved Protestant worship... query.nytimes.com European Parliament Resolution on Freedom of Religion in Vietnam unpo.org Re: "first the spelling is: montagnard" I merely put quotation marks around PRO's post. If you want to correct spelling, you should take it up with the guy who is doing the mis-spelling. :-) (And, PS, I only referred to the people of the 'Central Highlands'....)