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| Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Hanoi, Vietnam, last month following China's oil and gas moves in the South China Sea. Source: AP |
August 05, 2012
AFP
VIETNAMESE police have detained at least 20 people in a protest in Hanoi against Beijing's territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea.
Demonstrators were forced into waiting buses and taken to a rehabilitation centre usually used to detain sex workers and drug users, after attempting to gather in defiance of a heavy police presence, one detainee told AFP.
"There are at least 25 people here and there are arrestees elsewhere," the person -- who requested anonymity for security reasons -- said by telephone from the Loc Ha detention centre.
Another eyewitness estimated that 20 people had been detained.
Before being forcibly dispersed, the activists shouted "Down with China's aggression!" and waved Vietnamese flags and banners.
The protest is the fourth such rally in just over a month to be staged by activists in Hanoi. There were no arrests at the previous three.
The demonstrations come at a time of rising regional tensions over the South China Sea, which is believed to contain vast oil and gas deposits.
Hanoi and Beijing have a long-standing territorial dispute over the Spratly and Paracel Islands, which both countries claim, and frequently trade diplomatic barbs over oil exploration and fishing rights.
Relations between the pair have soured recently, with Vietnam attracting China's ire last month after it adopted a law that places the Spratlys under Hanoi's sovereignty.
China's state-backed China National Offshore Oil Corp. also said it was seeking bids for exploration of oil blocks in disputed waters -- a move slammed by Vietnam.
Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, last year allowed a number of anti-China rallies to go ahead without interference, but later clamped down, briefly detaining dozens of people.
China says it has sovereign rights to the whole South China Sea, which also has major international shipping routes. The sea is also subject to overlapping claims by Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
7 comments:
Why your guys so tantrum
About the South China Sea ,if you all never own any piece of the land before? It would be Khmers ,Cham and so on that your guys stole their land from should be doing this protesting,this called the thieves have no shame.
To 2:42 PM,
They was born as thief, they must always thief. Actually, the land where they are living are Khmer land and Champa.
This is just a small pec of land they lost to China and if they lost a lot of land like Khmer's land that lost to them they will not be silence as Khmer did.
How about Koh tral ,pulivy, Khmer krom, belong to Cambodian.
Thief remain as thief, who can find justice,
Claim more land and koh.
Ahsham nation
Ye, keep talking online. Khmer has no dick, chicken fuckers, hahaha
Why Khmer so dumb?
Vietnam stays off Cambodia's land.
Ah Ha... you are too good on Khmer and Laos ? Ha! A Yiek Cong/K ? Why ?
What about the Koh/Island, Maritime,and Khmer territory right along the border are parts belonging to Khmer What do you think, Ha! ?
Right now why don't you dare to take a positive step against China about the two of island namely Sprately & Paracel at the scarborough Shoal ?
One thing that Khmer knew it for sure that you had wanted to swallow and Kept Cambodia in your confederation controlled by Hanoi?
Wasn't it the truth ? Ha A thmeign Khmao/ A yuon Veh/ A Yiek Cong?
Even to day we are Khmers knowing that China big investors taken all Khmer natural resourses but, that is Okay that is Khmer problem because we were too busy fighting with you/yiek cong still resided in Khmer and because of you still standing behind the Cpp's puppet government is remaining in power.
As if one day we're going to die we will never have a dream to take you anyome as our boss, but China and U.S. if this case is available for Khmer to choose. Does it clearly know now?
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