The baseless demands of Yen Lac parish

(Baonghean) - Yen Lac parish has not provided any convincing, legal basis for the origin of the road or the ownership of the land area illegally encroached on October 5.

There is no way

The petition of Yen Lac parish wrote: "In 1987, Kieu 1 Cooperative, for unknown reasons, built a dike across the old road from the front of the church straight to the South, adjacent to the inter-commune road". Requesting the People's Committee of Nghi Kieu commune to "reopen the old road straight to the church according to the road map 229".

The origin of this land was previously the headquarters of Nghi Kieu Commune People's Committee, in 1976, it was handed over to Kieu 1 Cooperative. In 2002, all facilities and land area of ​​the Cooperative were handed over to Cluster 1, Nghi Kieu Kindergarten. In 2007, Nghi Kieu Commune declared the entire land area according to Directive 31 of the Prime Minister and in 2013, it prepared a dossier to grant a land use right certificate to Nghi Kieu Kindergarten with a total area of ​​9,343m2.

The old road connects from hamlet 9 to hamlet 10A to Yen Lac parish church.

Comparing map sheet 299 (drawn from 1978 to 1980) stored in Nghi Kieu commune shows: The land of the commune People's Committee hall, Kieu 1 Cooperative is on plots 204, 209; there is no road from the gate of Yen Lac parish church, through the land to the inter-commune road as in the petition.

On this map, it is shown that Yen Lac parish church does not have a road passing through the Nghi Kieu Kindergarten area.

Many witnesses confirmed that there is no straight road from the gate of Yen Lac parish church to the inter-commune road, cutting through the kindergarten campus.

Mr. Ngo Dac Vinh - hamlet chief of hamlet 10A said: My family's land plot used to be located in the Kieu 1 Cooperative's premises. I still remember that in 1975 - 1976, when Nghi Kieu Cooperative was established, my family was one of more than ten households that had to relocate to make way for the construction of the cooperative's headquarters. From the past until now, there has been no road running straight from the Yen Lac parish church through the cooperative's premises as proposed by the Yen Lac parish.

The new illegally encroached road is located in the campus of cluster 1, Nghi Kieu Kindergarten.

Mr. Hoang Van Minh (born in 1942, former Deputy Director in charge of planning of the Cooperative in 1977) affirmed: At that time, the road to Yen Lac parish church was behind the Cooperative. Now, Yen Lac parish uses the reason that the road to the church used to pass through the area of ​​Kieu 1 Cooperative (Cluster 1 of Nghi Kieu Kindergarten today) to open the road, which is incorrect....

Mr. Tran Van Mai (born in 1954, former Chairman of Kieu 1 Cooperative) added: The wall surrounding the Cooperative's campus was built in 1988 and I was the one who directed the implementation. At that time, this area was an empty lot with bushes, located within the Cooperative's campus. The construction of the wall in 1988 was assigned by the Cooperative to the hamlets to participate, including the people of hamlets 9 and 10a. No one said anything about having a road...

Baseless claim

Apart from the petition (signed by priest Anton Le Cong Luong - parish priest of Xuan Kieu and Mr. Nguyen Van Luu - Chairman of the Pastoral Council of Yen Lac parish), Yen Lac parish has not provided any convincing, legal basis for the origin of the road or the ownership of the land area illegally encroached on October 5.

Priest Xuan Kieu has repeatedly used his preaching to distort the truth and incite parishioners: “Opening roads for people to travel on is a legitimate act, not a request or an illegal encroachment or occupation of roads”, “this is what the people do on behalf of the government. This locality, this commune does not have enough human resources or funds, the people have to open roads...”; “what the people have done, their sweat, tears, and efforts must be protected at all costs...”.

Preaching of parish priest Xuan Kieu:

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Hundreds of parishioners illegally destroyed fences, cut down trees, and encroached on land on October 5.

In order to legalize the origin of the illegally encroached road, in the past few days, some dignitaries of Xuan Kieu parish have tried to mobilize and ask for signatures from the people. A witness said: They asked me to confirm that there is a road going through Kieu 1 Cooperative. They also said "small is fine, as long as there is a road". I said that the area used to be an empty lot, with many bushes and belonging to the Cooperative's premises, so I did not sign...

Before Father Le Cong Luong became the parish priest of Xuan Kieu (December 2014), Nghi Kieu was a peaceful countryside where Catholics and non-Catholics lived in unity and harmony; parish officials and parish groups maintained good relationships with local authorities.

Mr. Dang Van Dieu - the head of hamlet 9 - where Yen Lac parish church is located said: From the past until now, Yen Lac parishioners still go to church on the road from hamlet 9 to hamlet 10A connecting to the church. No one has said anything about straight or curved roads.

Mr. Dieu added: In 2013, the commune publicly announced the new rural planning to each hamlet, including the road planning for the people to know. In 2014, with the consensus of the whole people, the Executive Committee of Hamlet 9 had a document registering to build concrete roads on 4 routes with a length of 1,000m. Of which, route 4 is from the road to Yen Lac parish church to the inter-commune asphalt road.

At the end of 2014, the commune decided to approve the design drawing estimate with the construction value of line 4 over 251 million VND, in which cement was taken from the province's new rural support fund, people contributed labor days and materials. In both rounds of public consultation, Yen Lac parish did not mention anything about the road going straight from the church gate to the inter-commune road.

At this point, readers now know who made up the story about "the road leading straight to the Yen Lac parish church existed before" and the cause of the incidents that occurred on October 5 and 6 in Nghi Kieu commune.

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