Hanoi (VNA) – The sabotage arguments by hostile forces, the “bullets” intended to drive a wedge into the great national solidarity, failed to pierce through the firm shield of the truth and people’s solidarity.
The armed attacks on the headquarters of the People’s Committees of Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur communes of Cu Kuin district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, early on June 11 caused heavy human losses and negatively affected local security and order. As soon as the incidents happened, much wrongful and distorted information has also emerged on social networks and Vietnamese-language versions of foreign newswires.
Such broadcasting agencies as RFA, BBC, and VOA cited biased opinions of some people and political observers who said the June 11 incidents were triggered by prolonged land disputes and racial tensions that now surge in the Central Highlands. Those pages posted such reports as “the Central Highlanders were robbed of their land” or “isolated” so they had to rise up, and blamed administrations for the incidents.
RFA even quoted Y-Duen Buondap, head of the so-called Degar Central Highlands – an organisation based in North Carolina of the US, as declaring that he would report the "human rights violations" here to the United Nations and the US Government.
The flows of wrongful and harmful information pose latent risks of causing social instability while stirring public concern, impacting local residents’ life, and hampering authorities’ investigation. Such writings were unable to conceal their ill intentions of inciting contention and drive a wedge into the great national solidarity among ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, fake news about the incidents has also appeared on social media. A number of images and videos have been manipulated with the aim of stirring up anxiety in the public and inciting criticism of local administrations and the State.
However, the truth is a total contrast to what hostile forces are attempting to propagandise.
Local residents and the majority of Vietnamese people have voiced their outrage at the cruelty of the culprits. Many elder villagers and reputable persons of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands have strongly condemned the acts of disturbing security, striking the headquarters of the communal state agencies, and barbarously killing police officers, communal officials, and civilians. Religious dignitaries and followers have expressed their discontent over the arguments intended to sow division by some based abroad.
Local people have grieved the fallen officers, cadres, and compatriots and also actively provided information for authorities to serve the hunt of those launching the attacks. Thanks to support from locals, authorities quickly arrested all the ringleaders, and 74 persons involved in the incidents had been put into temporary detention as of June 20. The arrested confessed that they had been induced by the promises for money and assets after committing the acts.
The solidarity and consensus of ethnic groups in Dak Lak province have proved that the false allegations of racial and religious conflicts are completely groundless.
Residents in Cu Kuin district in particular and the Central Highlands in general are joining local authorities in developing socio-economic aspects and fruitfully carrying out development programmes for mountainous, remote, and disadvantaged areas launched by the Party and the Government.
The Party and State’s care for ethnic minority groups in general and those in the Central Highlands in particular can be seen in the implementation of the policies prioritising economic development and social security in each hamlet and village.
Though certain difficulties remains, Dak Lak and other provinces in the Central Highlands have recorded hundreds of communes meeting new-style rural area standards, over 90% of the population accessing hygienic water, 100% of the communes and 99.39% of the hamlets and villages accessing electricity, all the provinces in the region having universalised junior high school education, over 95% of children in the eligible age group going to school, and 100% of the communes having health stations (with 67% of the communes meeting national healthcare standards).
A large number of fruit farming zones, hydropower and solar power plants, schools, health stations, places of worship, projects on developing local culture, and roads have also taken shape.
Aside from thwarting reactionary and exiled forces’ plots to take advantage of religious affairs for sabotage purposes, all-level authorities have also created favourable conditions for religious activities, helping people practice their belief and religions and also preventing the abuse of religious affairs.
All of these shed light on the Party and State’s efforts to develop the Central Highlands so that no one is left behind. They also prove the fact that sabotage arguments under the pretext of democracy, human rights, religion, and ethnic affairs are sheer fabrications.
By now, the security and order situation in Dak Lak and the Central Highlands at large has stabilised, and locals' life returned to normal. The increasingly improved life quality of local residents and the solidarity of ethnic groups in the province and across Vietnam constitute the strongest response to the sabotage arguments, and also a strong shield and fortress in the fight against plots and ruses by hostile and reactionary forces and criminals./.
