Joseph Cao: “the passage of the Vietnam Human Rights Act through the House speaks very loudly of where we are as a government.”

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.

the Communist Government of Vietnam persecutes all religion across the board, and more particularly they target those groups of people that do not have a voice.

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 struggle for religious freedom and the promotion of justice and democracy in Vietnam remain in the hearts and minds of the 1.5 million Vietnamese-Americans presently living in the United States.