Vietnam, a member of the United Nations, has systematically violated these rights and has no intention of keeping the promise that it made to the U.S. Congress in 2006 to steadily improve its human rights record.
Cao criticizes Vietnam for failing to improve its human rights record as promised.
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We fully understand that the practice of faith, which includes fighting for social justice, advocating for the oppressed, for the poor, for the elderly, all of that is encompassed in religious faith.
The passage of the Vietnam Human Rights Act through the House speaks very loudly of where we are as a government.
What transpired in Vietnam after the Communist takeover could only be described by analogously linking the tragedy of Vietnam to such unconscionable events in human history as the Holocaust, the Killing Fields and the Great Purge.
And therefore I would ask the Congress to take actions now to back up our dialogue with action to show Vietnam that these are no longer empty words.
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