We are extremely concerned for the safety and well-being of over 5,000 Hmong in Northern Vietnam’s Dien Bien province, over 100 Hmong reported to be ‘detained,’ and over 600 reported to remain in hiding. Over the past few weeks, international news media outlets such as MSN, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and BBC have confirmed that over 5,000 Hmong-Vietnamese gathered to protest land rights violations, ethnic discrimination and religious persecution. Recently news outlets confirmed that Vietnamese officials have ‘detained’ Hmong protestors. It is unclear what this detainment process entails or if the detainees are safe.

We are concerned about these detainees, as well as what will happen to the Hmong-Vietnamese community (which numbers over 700,000 across Vietnam) after media attention dies down. Human Rights Watch is now calling for a full investigation, transparency in the situation, and media access to the Dien Bien province. We fully support and echo these requests.

We urge our elected officials to look into this matter and to encourage the State Department to press the Vietnamese Embassy for credible information and reports regarding the safety and well-being of the Hmong in Vietnam in a timely manner. 

Sign on to this petition and we will send the attached letter to your U.S. Senators, Congressmen, the State Department, and the Ambassador of Vietnam, urging them to investigate the current situation and stand up for the human rights of the Hmong in Vietnam!

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