Demonstration Against Viet Nam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in New York
Courtesy of BBC

New York, USA: 9/25/07. About 500 Vietnamese arrived here from more than twenty US states, and from Europe, Canada, Australia...to attend a demonstration in front of the United Nations Organization in New York to oppose Vietnam's Communist prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung from 10AM to 4PM on Sept 25, 2007.

Vietnamese protesters from Poland participated in the demonstration

Picture of Father Ly at the Vietnamese communist court trial

This demonstration campaign has been planned in advance and will be carried out during the week of Sept 20-Sept 27, 2007. According to Mr. Nguyen Van Tanh, New York's regional Vietnamese community chair-man and who organized the demonstration, Sept 25 saw the largest number of demonstrators who arrived from many cities all over the United States and from others countries such as Canada, France, Germany, Australia, including political parties, groups and religious leaders. A large group of demonstrators were from Washington DC, Boston and Houston areas. ...They displayed banners in Vietnamese and English; picture of Father Nguyen Van Ly, whose mouth was covered by Vietnamese police during a "closed" court trial; pictures of Le Thi Cong Nhan; Nguyen Van Dai and many other political prisoners.
Shouts of "Nguyen Tan Dung go home", "Down with Vietnam's communism", "Freedom for Vietnam", "Human Rights for Vietnam" and the national anthem of the Republic of Vietnam were heard throughout the course of the demonstration.
Among the Vietnamese demonstrators, there were more than 200 Chinese also demonstrated for Human Rights and Freedom. They handed out many fliers about political prisoners being tortured and killed in China prisons.

Also presented were about 700-800 demonstrators protested against the war in Iraq and President Bush. Signs and pictures about the horrific of the war, symbolic coffins wrapped in the US flags were displayed during the demonstration.

Mr Tanh said that it's not important the number of 500 or 700 demonstrators, the more important consideration is the coordination among many parties, groups, different religions, in various locations, to fight for democracy.