Foreign journalists make fact-finding tour to Mường Nhé
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VGP – Foreign journalists from AFP, Reuters, Kyodo News, NHK, Xinhua News Agency as well as local media agencies like the Việt Nam Television, The World and Việt Nam Report, arrived in Điện Biên Province on a fact-finding tour to learn about the recent happenings in Mường Nhé.
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They had a meeting with leaders of the local authorities to hear about the real development, causes, and results of the settlement of the case.
Ms. Giàng Thị Hoa, Vice Chairman of the Điện Biên People’s Committee once again rejected erroneous information on so-called “riot” of Hmong people in Mường Nhé that some foreign media reported recently.
Some foreign media even fabulously reported that local authorities used forces to break the “riot” and many of Hmong people participating in the riot were arrested or killed.
In fact, from April 30 to May 6, some extremists in several localities in Mường Nhé used cunning to incite and cheat about the appearance of a “supernatural” force, to lure and coerce thousands of Hmong people from many places to gathering in Huổi Khon Village of Nậm Kè Commune in Mường Nhé, in order to execute a scheme to undermine the great national unity bloc.
In the context, local authorities asked people-based organizations and relevant agencies to take measures to prevent the ringleaders from conducting extreme activities and disperse the gathering.
During the settlement of the incident, no force was used, just working teams of mass organizations helped the ethnic people understand the scheme of these bad persons and to voluntarily return to their residential areas.
At present, Hmong people from other localities have returned to their residential places. The local authorities provided means of transport, money and food for them to return safely. Nobody was reported wounded or killed. Some persons who committed acts violating the country’s laws were temporarily detained.
By Hải Minh