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Viewing cable 06HOCHIMINHCITY609, NEW HOA HAO TENSIONS IN THE MEKONG DELTA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06HOCHIMINHCITY609 2006-06-06 10:21 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO9101
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH
DE RUEHHM #0609 1571021
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 061021Z JUN 06
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0967
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 0713
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 1012
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 000609 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
SUBJECT: NEW HOA HAO TENSIONS IN THE MEKONG DELTA 
 
REF: HCMC 308 AND PREVIOUS 
 
1. (SBU) On June 4, a Hoa Hao contact sent us via email an open 
letter signed by Hoa Hao dissident Le Quang Liem, asking for 
"emergency intervention from international agencies" to end a 
hunger strike by 16 members of Liem's group in Dong Thap 
province in the Mekong Delta. According to the letter, the group 
started the hunger strike on May 30 to protest a government ban 
on their celebration of Hoa Hao "founder's day," scheduled this 
year for June 13.  Another reason for the hunger strike was to 
protest an alleged attack against Hoa Hao followers on May 24. 
Plainclothes police reportedly attacked some Hoa Hao as they 
sought to visit the family of Tran Van Ut who self-immolated and 
died last August in a police raid (ref A). 
 
2. (SBU) Liem's letter notes that the protestors have surrounded 
themselves with over 100 liters of gasoline and are prepared to 
self-immolate should the police seek to break up the hunger 
strike.  The letter states that police have blocked the area, 
cut phone lines and used loudspeakers to threaten the group to 
drop their protest. Liem said that by blocking the group from 
contact with the outside, the GVN is pushing them towards death. 
 He demanded that the GVN yield to the nine demands of the 
"self-immolating people."  An article on the standoff posted on 
a dissident website (www.doithoai.com) carried a photograph 
showing a group of people with banners including:  "A mass 
hunger strike to protest the communist government's repression 
of religious freedom and its beating of Hoa Hao followers," "We 
need freedom, democracy and human rights", "Return the Hoa Hao's 
headquarters at 114 Bui Thi Xuan," and "Free Nguyen Van Dien 
priest."  (Note:  the former Hoa Hao headquarters is located in 
HCMC.  Nguyen Van Dien is one of the seven persons tried and 
imprisoned in September 2005, following the June 2005 protests 
against the GVN in the Mekong.) 
 
3. (SBU) On June 5, we contacted Hai Ong, Chairman of the Dong 
Thap Committee for Religious Affairs.  Ong said that a group of 
Hoa Hao had hung anti-GVN banners in the province.  He said the 
incident was not serious and that the "trouble-makers" were 
actually taking food supplied by their relatives.  Ong confirmed 
that the group had set up gasoline barrels around themselves, 
but authorities recognize that this is "a set-up" and are not 
going to precipitate a crisis.  Ong denied that police beat up 
the Hoa Hao, and said that the original incident was an 
"altercation with some drivers."  He refused to discuss the 
issue further. 
 
4. (SBU) We subsequently spoke with the People's Committee 
Chairman of the commune in which the standoff is taking place. 
He repeated that there was no real hunger strike and that the 
authorities have been able to "softly pacify" the group and 
convince some to go home. 
 
5. (SBU) On June 6, we received another report from our Hoa Hao 
contact, who indicated that tensions continued to build in Dong 
Thap.  He was concerned that because local authorities have 
refused to hold a dialogue with the protestors, they will 
continue their hunger strike and will self-immolate when 
exhausted.  He indicated that Le Quang Liem called on the 
followers to drop their protest and return home.  However, our 
reading of Liem's "open letter of June 4, posted on the 
Internet, calls on the followers to "be patient and not 
self-immolate" and to wait for his and international 
intervention with the GVN. 
 
6. (SBU) Comment:    It is not clear to us what message Liem is 
actually sending to his followers.  In the past, he has called 
on followers to self-immolate to protest the GVN, including one 
attempted self-immolation in front of the Consulate General last 
year.  His message now may be read as discouraging 
self-immolation in the current case, or it can be read as 
discouraging self immolation for the moment, pending Liem's or 
international intervention.  We have emphasized again strongly 
to Vietnamese officials in Dong Thap that they have nothing to 
gain by taking any actions that would lead to loss of life. 
End Comment. 
 
Winnick