Beware of distorted arguments about the terrorist trial in Dak Lak

From January 16-20, 2024 Dak Lak Provincial People's CourtSatisfiedbrought to first instance trial 100 defendants in the terrorist attack on the People's Committee headquarters of two communes in Dak Lak, killing police officers, soldiers and people in the early morning.morning of 11/6/2023.Public opinion agrees with the defendants' verdictRightHowever, taking advantage of this incident, hostile forces are trying to distort and falsifywith the aim of politicizing the case.

Appropriate sentence for terrorists

“Terrorism is condemned by the whole world, in which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory to international anti-terrorism treaties” - that is what the presiding judge emphasized before announcing the verdict. The trial panel affirmed that this is an especially serious criminal case, the defendants’ actions are especially dangerous to society, disregarding the law, blatantly violating the property of state agencies, individuals as well as the lives of police officers, soldiers, state agency officers and innocent civilians, seriously violating national security…

Therefore, 10 defendants received life sentences.crime of terrorism. The remaining defendants in the group of “Terrorism against the people’s government” and “Terrorism” were sentenced to the highest level of 20 years in prison and the lowest level of 3 years and 6 months in prison. In particular, the two defendants Le Van Nghia (born in 1956) was sentenced to 2 years in prison for “Organizing illegal exit and entry for others” and the defendant Y Cing Byă (born in 1991) was sentenced to 9 months in prison for “Concealing criminals”. Regarding civil liability, the 92 defendants were ordered to jointly compensate 25 victims, legal representatives of the victims, organizations and individuals, for medical expenses, burial expenses, and property damage.

The verdict received high public approval, especially from the people of the Central Highlands. People felt that the 10 defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, the rest were sentenced from 9 months to 20 years in prison, which was the right person, the right crime, ensuring the strictness of the law, but also demonstrating the humane policy of the law towards those who have made mistakes and repented.

A strict sentence against terrorists and saboteurs aiming to overthrow the people's government has a deterrent effect and educates those who have dark political dreams and intentions, oppose the government, and go against the interests of the people.

Our people have gone through a long and arduous struggle and sacrifice to gain independence and freedom for the country. Every Vietnamese citizen has the duty toprotect and build the countryThose who oppose the government are opposing the people's interests and must be severely punished.

Beware of tricksfightchange the nature of the case

The above verdict received the support of the Vietnamese people; however, hostile forces and political opportunists spread false information and staged and edited images with the aim of politicizing the case.

On social networking sites, news sites that are unfriendly to Vietnam such as Radio Free Asia (RFA), BBC Vietnamese, and VOA Vietnamese have published many articles that impose and speculate on the incident to attribute it to the country's political problems. Many articles and comments have distorted and labeled it as a "human rights violation", "violation of democracy", "power struggle", "clique purge", "the fault of the one-party system"... In particular, articles such as "The shooting in Dak Lak in June 2023 was a "protest against oppression" (RFA), "What can we see from the trial of 100 people in the attack on the commune People's Committee headquarters in Dak Lak?" (BBC Vietnamese), "Vietnam says the trial in Dak Lak is 'humane', what do observers say?" (VOA Vietnamese),... have published a lot of false information, with the nature of accusations and speculation.

Many articles have even continuously accused Vietnam of oppressing ethnic minorities and attributed the terrorist attacks to the people's repression and anger. Such one-sided and fabricated articles have been continuously shared on the fan pages of the terrorist organization Viet Tan and ethnic minority groups, causing some people to misunderstand the nature of the incident. They deliberately distorted the nature of the incident, turning the terrorist incident into a conflict and contradiction among ethnic groups in the Central Highlands in order to incite ethnic discrimination and cause division among ethnic groups in the Central Highlands.

At the same time, they create excuses to call on countries and international organizations to intervene in our country's internal affairs. They whitewash terrorist acts and incite and distort our Party's policy of great national unity, while continuing to encourage and incite the above terrorist acts.

Since the trial, reactionary forces have dug up and labeled ethnic issues in the Central Highlands as “Dega State”, “Dega Protestantism” to sabotage our country. They distort our Party’s policy of national unity and religious policy. They accuse the State of discriminating and suppressing the rights of ethnic minorities, aiming to undermine the people’s trust, inciting people to oppose the government, demanding secession, autonomy, etc.

The above tricks are used by hostile forces frequently, repeatedly, and many times to sabotage the Vietnamese revolution. Through the cases, they exaggerate, speculate, and turn the incident into a political problem of the country. Therefore, people need to be alert, be vigilant, not believe in the distortions, speculations, and accusations of extremists and political opportunists; and not lend a hand to hostile forces to sabotage the Party, the State, and the people.