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 CIS NO: 96-H461-75
 TITLE: Human Rights in Vietnam.
 SOURCE: Committee on International Relations. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: v+230 p.
 DATE: Nov. 8, 1995
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 104-1             SUDOC: Y4.IN8/16:V67/5
 ITEM NO: 1017-A-01; 1017-B-01

 Hearing before the Subcom on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcom on
 International Operations and Human Rights to examine Vietnam alleged human
 rights violations against political dissidents and others, in light of July
 1995 normalization of U.S. relations with Vietnam.
   Supplementary material (p. 61-230) includes witnesses' written statements
 and correspondence.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON ASIA AND THE
     PACIFIC. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
     HOUSE; VIETNAM (Human rights conditions, review); HUMAN RIGHTS;
     POLITICAL PRISONERS; FOREIGN.RELATIONS

 96-H461-75 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Nov. 8, 1995 p. 7-29
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     WIEDEMANN, KENT M. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific
        Affairs, Department of State)
     COFFEY, STEVEN J. (Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Democracy, Human
        Rights, and Labor)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Merits of normalized relations with Vietnam,
     with review of Vietnam human rights conditions.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE

 96-H461-75 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Nov. 8, 1995 p. 30-46
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     TRI, NGUYEN TAN (former political prisoner in Vietnam)
     DUC, THICH GIAC (Chairman, Planning and Development Committee,
        Vietnamese American Unified Buddhist Congress)
     HOAT, DOAN VIET (wife of political prisoner in Vietnam)
     THIEN, NGUYEN CHI (former political prisoner in Vietnam)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Examples of Vietnam human rights violations in
     political prisoner camps.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS: VIETNAMESE AMERICAN UNIFIED BUDDHIST CONGRESS

 96-H461-75 TESTIMONY NO: 3         Nov. 8, 1995 p. 47-60, 124-223
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     JENDRZEJCZYK, MICHAEL (D.C. Director, Human Rights Watch/Asia)
     SHEA, NINA H. (Director, Puebla Program on Religious Freedom, Freedom
        House)
     AI, VO VAN (President, Vietnam Committee on Human Rights)
     THANH, TRAN TU (Executive Director, Vietnam Helsinki Committee)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Nature and extent of human rights violations by
     Vietnam, with suggested U.S. actions; description of Vietnam persecution
     of followers of Buddhism (related materials, p. 131-188).
 INSERTION: 
     -- Vietnam Helsinki Committee, political prisoners in Vietnam, lists
        (p. 206-223).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY; BUDDHISM; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/ASIA;
     FREEDOM HOUSE; VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS; VIETNAM HELSINKI
     COMMITTEE