"On December 2, 2000 three of our brothers, Siu Seo,...

"On December 2, 2000 three of our brothers, Siu Seo, Siu Ai and Nay Glel were arrested by Vietnamese Cong An security forces on the Montagnard village of Plei Jo Ning. They were publicly crucified and beaten while they hung on the cross for one day and night."
The Hanoi authorities' repression of religious freedom and human rights was also lambasted by Quan Nguyen, president of the non-violent movement for democracy in Vietnam founded by his brother and prominent dissident Nguyen Dan Que, who is currently under house arrest in Vietnam. Quan called on the Italian Parliament to demand that the Hanoi regime stop oppressing the indigenous religious groups such as Hoa Hoa and Cao Dai, and to stop government and Party interference with Buddhist, Catholic and Protestant Churches.
Enver Can highlighted the oppression of the Muslim Uighur minority in China, which has branded the Uighur freedom movement as terrorist and intensified repression, including executions, following the September 11 terrorist attack on the US last year. "Since September 11, China has been trying to mislead the international community by depicting the Uighur nation as terrorist. In this way they seek to justify their policy of suppression against the entire Uighur population in East Turkestan."
"The real purpose of the Chinese regime is to accomplish its policy of assimilation, Sinicization and marginalisation of the Muslims in East Turkestan in their own country," Can said, describing the homeland of the Uighur people, named Xinjiang since the Chinese takeover in 1949, as a colonial province.
All four speakers called on the Italian Parliament and government to consider their plight when concluding bilateral agreements with China.
The hearing was organised by Hands Off Cain and the Transnational Radical Party. HOC launched its ongoing campaign for religious freedom earlier in 2002.