American writer protests the "Vietnam Human Rights Act"
Ha Noi, Sept. 18 (VNA) -- Lady Borton, an American writer with experience in Viet Nam, has described the recent passing of the "Viet Nam Human Rights Act" by the U.S. House of Representatives as the second "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which "gave permission" for the U.S. war in Viet Nam.
In an open letter to the Viet Nam-US Association, Borton said that like the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Viet Nam Human Rights Act is based on findings that are exaggerated and in some cases even fictitious. She went on to say that those "findings" came from Vietnamese-American groups in North Carolina and southern California, including Vietnamese ethnic minorities who worked closely with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during the war in Viet Nam.
The American author pointed out: "The intent behind the human rights act is to start another war, this time using "human rights" and "democracy" to set ethnic group against ethnic group inside Viet Nam, to reopen the exodus of "refugees" from Viet Nam, and to dampen the opening process so many of us have worked for years to build.
"I believe our lawmakers in the Congress did not understand the hidden agenda behind this proposed law when they voted for the act," Borton said. She concluded her letter by appealing to her American friends to do their utmost to stop the approval of the act by the U.S. Senate.--VNA
