John Sifton: “The government has an obligation to stop violence against minorities, whether it is committed by political parties or by…”

None of those things should go forward without stringent human rights standards.

A lot of this will be made better if you start reforming and if you show progress on human rights and accountability.

I hope so much that the Congress will adopt the Vietnam Human Rights acts, because I have the feeling that the United States support human rights already for 3 million Communist Party but not for 87 million Vietnamese people.

There is no doubt. There is no doubt at all. There is worldwide crackdown on civil society underway, and this is but one example.