Con Cuong residents: 'Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thuc is doing wrong things'

(Baonghean.vn) - The fact that Nguyen Dinh Thuc dragged parishioners from Song Ngoc parish to sue Formosa and disrupt security and order has made the innocent people in Yen Khe commune (Con Cuong) very upset. This is also the area where in July 2012, Mr. Thuc dragged hundreds of parishioners from Quan Lang parish in Tuong Son commune (Anh Son) to cause trouble.

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Following information through newspapers and social networks, people in Yen Khe commune, Con Cuong district, expressed their indignation at the actions of the head of Song Ngoc Parish, who lured his followers to cause disorder and insecurity in the area.

In 2012, Mr. Pay Van Bay was the head of Trung Huong village, Yen Khe commune (Con Cuong). In the incident in which some parishioners of Quan Lang parish, Tuong Son commune, Anh Son district, led by Priest Nguyen Dinh Thuc, protested and caused trouble, Mr. Bay was severely beaten by extremists and had to be hospitalized for a whole week.

Priest Nguyen Dinh Thuc performs a ceremony at the private yard of Mr. Pham The Tran (Trung Huong village, Yen Khe commune, Con Cuong on July 1, 2012). Photo taken from the website Giaophanvinhonline

The lives of Mr. Bay and those injured in 2012 have long since returned to normal. He said that now the relationship between non-Catholics and Catholics in the area is united and warm. On weekends, Catholics still go to the chapel in Trung Huong village to hold mass.

He also said that in the past two days, he had been following on social media the young people in the village using their mobile phones to watch the scene of Father Nguyen Dinh Thuc leading hundreds of parishioners from Song Ngoc parish to Ha Tinh to sue Formosa. “On the way, many extremists damaged vehicles and resisted those on duty. Doing so is wrong, regardless of morality and the law,” Mr. Bay said.

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This event inevitably reminded Mr. Bay of 2012. “Back then, the missionaries came to say good things but in their hearts they did not think well.” According to Mr. Bay: “Back then, because the priest was dragging them, the parishioners also had extreme actions in Yen Khe commune. For his own purposes, the priest dragged the parishioners into the path of crime.”

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hien, resident of Khe Tin hamlet, Yen Khe commune, right next to Trung Huong hamlet, said that he heard people talking about the priest of Song Ngoc parish inciting his parishioners to sue. He said that this was an act for the personal purposes of priest Thuc, and that his actions had incited parishioners to cause disturbances in public order and security.

The incident also reminded Mr. Hien of the disturbance in July 2012. At that time, many people were upset because they thought that people from other places had come to disturb the order in the area. "But when they calmed down, everyone realized that the person behind the disturbance was the one at fault," said Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hien.

'The priest himself is doing something wrong', people who witnessed the incident nearly 5 years ago in Yen Khe (Con Cuong) affirmed because they had experienced it and understood this priest very well.

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