Candlelight
Vigil for Human Rights and Democracy in Vietnam On Friday March 12, 1999
Press Release
March 7, 1999
Houston - The Vietnamese-American Community
in Houston and Vicinity will organize a candlelight vigil for Human Rights and Democracy
in Vietnam with the participation of more than 50 community groups including
Vietnamese-American youth organizations, high school and college youths, professional,
religious and civic groups.
For more than a month, the Vietnamese
American community in Southern California has expressed its absolute outrage over the
insensitivity of Mr. Truong Tran when he insisted on displaying the two symbols of
oppression in Vietnam - the Vietnamese Communist flag and the portrait of Ho Chi Minh - at
the center of Little Saigon. The Vietnamese American community in Southern California has
unequivocally expressed their rejection of the Communist regime that has been oppressive
ruler of Vietnam for more than 50 years.
On Friday, February 26, more than fifteen
thousand (15,000) Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon, Westminster joined in a
candlelight vigil to show their unity for Human Rights in Vietnam and to demonstrate their
hope for peace and freedom in Vietnam. On Friday March 5, more than fifteen thousand
(15,000) Vietnamese Americans in San Jose showed up in another Candle Light Vigil to show
the solidarity with the people in Orange County.
On Friday March 12, the Vietnamese community
in Houston will show our solidarity with the people from Southern and Northern California,
as well as around the world, to further explain to the world about the atrocities
committed by the Vietnamese communist regime in Vietnam, and to demonstrate our unwavering
faith in the causes of Human Rights and Democracy for Vietnam.
The Candlelight Vigil will be held at 11235
Beechnut at Boone, Houston, Texas. Some 3000 to 5000 local Vietnamese Americans are
expected to turn out for the vigil.
We will also have a ceremony to pray for
those victims of the communist regimes and for all soldiers who sacrificed their life for
freedom during the Vietnam war, including more than 58,000 American soldiers who gave
their life for freedom and democracy in Vietnam.
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