Vietnam - Renown Zen master, Nhat Hanh, believes the communist government of Vietnam is employing thugs and hiring mobs to use violence against followers from two Buddhist monasteries - Bat Nha and Phuoc Hue - in an eviction attempt.
"Our country does not yet have true religious freedom, and the government tightly controls the Buddhist Church machinery," Nhat Hanh wrote in a letter. "The Buddhist Church is helpless, unable to protect its own children."
Master Hanh has called for the Vietnamese government to lift restrictions on religious freedom and respect human rights. He also feels Vietnam needs more citizen rights and more democracy. "In the case of Bat Nha and Phuoc Hue, government officials hired the mobs and worked together with them," Hanh contends over the recent actions against the monasteries.
Vietnamese officials have denied the allegations but only government-sanctioned churches are allowed to operate in the country.
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