The Nature of Vang Chinh Minh and the So-Called 'Hmong Alliance for Justice'

As a Mong ethnic person born and raised in Vietnam, in recent times, with the support of reactionary and ill-intentioned individuals and organizations, Vang Chinh Minh has established the so-called "Hong Alliance for Justice" to conduct activities that distort and sabotage the Party and State of Vietnam, dividing the great national unity bloc.

Lai Chau Provincial Police propagate to Mong people not to listen to bad people's arguments. (Source: cand.com.vn)

The saboteur, dividing the great national unity bloc

Vang Chinh Minh (also known as Vang Chan Min) was born in 1975, a Mong ethnic, born and raised in Kho Cha Van village, Chi Ca commune, Xin Man district, Ha Giang province.

Since 1995, Vang Chinh Minh and his family migrated to Nam Nhu 3 village, Cha Cang commune, Muong Lay district, Lai Chau province (now Nam Nhu commune, Nam Po district, Dien Bien province). During this time, Vang Chinh Minh actively participated in illegal propaganda and religious development activities and was arrested and administratively punished by Dien Bien provincial police many times for his activities that complicated the security and order situation in the area.

In daily life, Vang Chinh Minh had an illicit relationship with a married woman, was caught red-handed and was later criticized by both families and had to compensate the victim's family.

In 2005, Vang Chinh Minh fled from Dien Bien province to Laos, then to Thailand and was brought to the United States by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR to resettle as a refugee.

During this time, Vang Chinh Minh entered Vietnam many times to connect with and direct a number of domestic opposition groups in the areas of Cao Bang, Dien Bien, Lao Cai and thoroughly exploited social networking sites such as Zalo, Facebook, Youtube, Viber... to propagate and sabotage. Vang Chinh Minh also directly went to the border areas of Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Ha Giang provinces to connect with and lure Protestant ethnic minorities to go abroad for "non-violent" training under the guise of religious training organized by the "Board for Relief of Boat People - BPSOS"[1] in Thailand, the Philippines, and East Timor.

Vang Chinh Minh also propagated that BPSOS is an organization that protects the rights of Vietnamese Mong refugees in Thailand and calls on Mong people to go abroad to participate in religious activities. Vang Chinh Minh promised to bring Mong people who follow the religion and are being persecuted to Thailand and the Philippines to contact the international community, the Foreign Ministries of other countries, whoever wants to go to Thailand or the US will be as happy as Vang Chinh Minh, if anyone wants to go, I will help.

Vang Chinh Minh has also given many interviews to VOA Vietnamese, met with US congressmen to call for Vietnam to be put back on the list of "Countries of Particular Concern for Religious Freedom - CPC", demanded "religious freedom" and "human rights" and called on the Vietnamese government to release the so-called "prisoners of conscience".

To carry out his plot to sabotage Vietnam, Vang Chinh Minh created many email, Youtube, and Facebook accounts to regularly post and share articles, images, and video clips with content accusing the Vietnamese government of violating democracy, human rights, suppressing religion, distorting the Party's policies and guidelines, and the State's policies and laws, and actively participating in opposing draft laws such as the Law on Cyber ​​Security, the Law on Belief and Religion, etc.

Along with that, Vang Chinh Minh lured Protestant Mong people in the country to Thailand to attend training courses on so-called “civil society”, giving interviews and claiming that they were “living witnesses” to accuse the government of religious repression.

Vang Chinh Minh, Nguyen Dinh Thang and a number of other subjects used online application software to participate in training and educating a number of domestic dissidents on how to deal with violations of laws related to ethnicity and religion when discovered by the government and police forces. Actively campaigning for a number of ethnic minorities following Protestantism, mainly Mong people, who had illegal activities that they considered to be those who "dared to openly oppose Vietnam on democracy, human rights, and religious freedom" currently in Thailand to be granted refugee status and resettled in a third country.

Some social media accounts used by individuals and reactionary organizations of the Mong ethnic group in exile abroad to spread propaganda activities to establish a “Mong State”. (Source: cand.com.vn)

About the so-called “Hmong Alliance for Justice”

“Hmong United For Justice” - “ Hmong United For Justice - HUJ” is an organization founded by Vang Chinh Minh in 2016 to gather Mong people in Vietnam who are involved in anti-government activities abroad.

Vang Chinh Minh, Ly A Cha, Giang A Da and a number of other subjects have repeatedly organized the launching of the organization under the slogan that "Hmong United For Justice" is an organization of "activists, fighting for democracy, human rights, and religious freedom for the Vietnamese Mong people. Vang Chinh Minh and the subjects in "Hmong United For Justice" have established a number of websites and YouTube pages such as: "Hmong United for Justice", "Hmong Human Rights Coalition", "Against Religion Oppression", "Xaivcialis CMA", personal Facebook pages named "Kev Vaam Meej", "Ntsuab Zoov", "Johnny Huy"... to propagate and distort against the Party and State of Vietnam under the guise of democracy, human rights, ethnicity, and religion.

On these social networking sites, Vang Chinh Minh and the leaders of the so-called “Hmong United For Justice” have spread propaganda against the regime, contrary to the Party’s guidelines and policies, the State’s laws, and accused Vietnam of violating democracy and human rights with the argument that “the Mong people, especially the Mong people who follow religion in Vietnam, are discriminated against; their land and forests are robbed, they are surrounded, isolated, harassed, persecuted, and genocide is carried out, and the Mong people are considered a dangerous threat in the northern provinces”…

Even on these social networking sites, Vang Chinh Minh and his accomplices denied the traditional customs of the Mong people, instructed Mong followers on how to deal with the government and police when called for questioning or questioning; enticed and instructed ethnic minorities on how to collect information, how to make reports reflecting the suppression of religion and ethnicity by the Party committees and authorities, and sent them to Vang Chinh Minh and the Mong community overseas to send to Senators and the US State Department, thereby putting pressure on Vietnam.

Vang Chinh Minh believes that the Mong people in Vietnam should join hands to fight for their rights, freedom of belief and religion; together create their own "path" and join the organization "Hmong United For Justice".

Recently, while the entire political system and society joined hands to contribute and participate vigorously in the rescue and overcoming the consequences of storm No. 3 and the floods and landslides that caused severe damage in some localities, the organization "Hmong Alliance for Justice" used the name of "protecting the rights of the Mong people" to attract supporters, with the aim of carrying out acts of sabotage against the Party and State of Vietnam by claiming that: "The storm and flood were caused by officials cutting down all the forests", "donations to support the people affected by landslides will flow into the treasury", "only by establishing a "Hmong State" will there be many fields and fields, and there will be food even without working".

Vietnam has made increasingly impressive achievements in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities, thereby contributing to enhancing our country's reputation in implementing international commitments, especially the CERD Convention. (Source: CPV)

Anti-Vietnam at international events and conferences

Vang Chinh Minh and other anti-state elements have directly participated in many international events and conferences hosted by the United Nations, of which Vietnam is a member, as guests or "living witnesses" to question and dialogue with the Vietnamese delegation about the situation of the Mong people in the country.

At the 5th Dialogue Session on the Implementation of the Convention Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) of Vietnam at the CERD Convention Committee in Geneva, Switzerland and the Ministerial Conference of States on Freedom of Religion in Prague, Czech Republic, Vang Chinh Minh and other subjects organized propaganda, distributed, and livestreamed on websites with anti-Party and anti-State content, saying: "Vietnam has not fulfilled its commitments to the United Nations, Vietnamese representatives reported dishonestly, not in accordance with the United Nations' questions on improving the religious situation, as well as fighting all forms of racial discrimination"; "Ethnic minorities in Vietnam are still discriminated against, under government control, making it impossible to develop, requesting international intervention in the form of surveys and interviews with the Mong ethnic minority areas in Vietnam, especially the Mong people in the Central Highlands provinces".

At the same time, the subject also commented and attacked the Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman of the Ethnic Committee - Head of the Vietnamese delegation at the dialogue session on the National Report on the implementation of the 5th CERD Convention.

Recently, right after the Vietnamese delegation participated in the Dialogue Session on Vietnam's National Report under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle IV of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations Headquarters on May 7, 2024, Vang Chinh Minh, Nguyen Van Dai (the ringleader of the "Brotherhood for Democracy" and was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hanoi People's Court for "Activities aimed at overthrowing the people's government") and a number of members of the "Viet Tan" organization organized livestreams on social networking sites to propagate distortions that "the human rights situation in Vietnam is getting worse and worse and this time is the same, after this report the human rights situation remains the same and cannot be improved"...

These are familiar arguments of Vang Chinh Minh, Nguyen Van Dai and a number of opposing subjects aimed at propagating and distorting the human rights situation in Vietnam, at the same time opposing our Party and State, lowering the prestige and role of Vietnam before the international community, aiming to divide the great national unity bloc.

Vang Chinh Minh and a number of subjects in the "Hmong Alliance for Justice - HUJ" have taken advantage of international forums and cyberspace to propagate, distort, and sabotage Vietnam on issues of democracy, human rights, religion, and ethnicity. However, in reality, the Party and State of Vietnam always respect and ensure human rights in all areas of social life, including the freedom of belief and religion of ethnic minorities.

Respecting and ensuring human rights is a consistent viewpoint and policy of the Party and State of Vietnam, stipulated in the Constitution and laws of Vietnam over the years, specified in socio-economic development strategies and plans suitable to each stage of the country's development, and always actively and responsibly demonstrated in the process of implementing international obligations and commitments that Vietnam has signed on human rights.

Currently, basic human rights and freedoms are recognized in the 2013 Constitution of Vietnam, protected and promoted by specific legal documents and vividly demonstrated through people's daily lives.

In their speeches to the international community, press agencies, Party and State leaders, and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam have always affirmed that “Protecting and promoting human rights is a consistent policy of the Vietnamese State. Vietnam always considers people as the center and driving force of the Renovation process and the country's development, and always strives for the goal of improving the lives and enjoyment of the people, leaving no one behind.”

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[1] “Board for the Relief of Boat People - BPSOS” is an organization established in 1980 in the US led by Nguyen Dinh Thang, born in 1958, who has been hiding under the guise of helping boat people and refugees to carry out anti-Vietnam activities in recent times. Nguyen Dinh Thang has carried out many activities to distort the human rights situation in Vietnam, supporting a number of subjects who are active against the Party and the State of Vietnam. Taking advantage of the name of humanitarian activities of “fighting human trafficking” and “protecting refugees”, he regularly meets with groups of Vietnamese refugees such as illegal workers abroad, illegal fishermen... in some Southeast Asian countries to select and train core teams to bring back to the country to carry out anti-Vietnam activities.

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