Old musician Ta Tri Hai with broken fingers due to thug’s attack
The pro-government thug beat the old musician, breaking his fingers and destroying his violin as well as throwing other his instruments into the lake.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 11, 2015
A Vietnamese street musician who often sings patriotic songs was brutally attacked by a pro-government thug in the capital city of Hanoi on November 10 amid rising violence against political dissidents and human rights activists in the communist nation.
Mr. Ta Tri Hai, 75, reported that the big thug assaulted him around 9.30 PM when he played for people in the Ho Guom Lake in Hanoi’s center. The man beat the old musician, breaking his fingers and destroying his violin as well as throwing his other instruments into the lake.
During the attack, the thug said he was angry about the songs the old musician often sing which defame late President Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese communist leader and the founder of the communist state.
Mr. Hai, an anti-China activist, said local police came but allowed the attacker to go away freely.
The old musician is spending all his time in the city’s center to play music for visitors and local residents. Every evening, dozens of people gather on the lakeside pavement to listen to his patriotic songs and other songs which promote multi-party democracy and human rights, some of which were written by him.
He has participated in numerous demonstrations in which Vietnamese protest China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the past five years.
Mr. Hai is a loyal member of the No-U Football Club, a soccer team of Vietnamese activists who oppose China’s expansionism in the resource-rich East Sea which is very important for international navigation.
Due to his activities, Mr. Hai was detained by police several times. He has become a figure unwelcome by Hanoi’s authorities which have regularly harassed him. The old musician said Hanoi police have pressured landlords, demanding them not to allow him to rent a room for overnight stays.
Mr. Hai said he was threatened many times by pro-government thugs and plainclothes agents when he sing patriotic songs condemning China’s aggressiveness in the East Sea.
In 2012, Vietnam jailed two music compositors for writing patriotic songs condemning China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty and protesting Vietnam’s crackdown against anti-China activists. The People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Tran Vu Anh Binh to six years and Vo Minh Tri to four years in prison for anti-state propaganda.
The attack against Mr. Hai is among numerous assaults of pro-government thugs against pro-democracy and human rights activists recently.
Many bloggers, including photographer Nguyen Lan Thang and his wife Le Bich Vuong, Nguyen Chi Tuyen, Trinh Tuan Anh, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Tran Thi Nga have been harassed and attacked by pro-government thugs and plainclothes agents.
Thugs backed by the Hanoi police on October 30 attacked activists when they gathered in a local restaurant to mark the 4th anniversary of the founding of No-U FC, injuring some participants and causing damages to the restaurant. Numerous policemen and security agents stayed outside of the restaurant and did not respond to the call for help.
Four days later, thugs and a policeman in Hanoi city’s Chuong My district, assaulted two human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan after the duo visited the family of Do Dang Du, the 17-year-old boy who died on October 10 after suffering serious injuries during detention in the Hanoi-based Detention Facility No. 3.
On November 5, security forces in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City violently supressed anti-China protests on the occasion of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Southeast Asian nation. Police brutally beat a number of anti-China activists in Saigon and detained around 50 protestors in the two cities.
Vietnam has tightened political control several months ahead of the ruling communist party’s National Congress slated in early 2016. Feared by the victory of the democratic forces in the general election in Myanmar last week, the communist government in Hanoi is striving not to allow the formation of the opposition party as the ruling communists want to keep the country under a one-party regime.
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November 11, 2015
Angered by Patriotic Songs, Vietnam Pro-Gov’t Thug Breaks Fingers of Old Street Musician, Destroying His Instruments
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Ta Tri Hai
Old musician Ta Tri Hai with broken fingers due to thug’s attack
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 11, 2015
A Vietnamese street musician who often sings patriotic songs was brutally attacked by a pro-government thug in the capital city of Hanoi on November 10 amid rising violence against political dissidents and human rights activists in the communist nation.
Mr. Ta Tri Hai, 75, reported that the big thug assaulted him around 9.30 PM when he played for people in the Ho Guom Lake in Hanoi’s center. The man beat the old musician, breaking his fingers and destroying his violin as well as throwing his other instruments into the lake.
During the attack, the thug said he was angry about the songs the old musician often sing which defame late President Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese communist leader and the founder of the communist state.
Mr. Hai, an anti-China activist, said local police came but allowed the attacker to go away freely.
The old musician is spending all his time in the city’s center to play music for visitors and local residents. Every evening, dozens of people gather on the lakeside pavement to listen to his patriotic songs and other songs which promote multi-party democracy and human rights, some of which were written by him.
He has participated in numerous demonstrations in which Vietnamese protest China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the past five years.
Mr. Hai is a loyal member of the No-U Football Club, a soccer team of Vietnamese activists who oppose China’s expansionism in the resource-rich East Sea which is very important for international navigation.
Due to his activities, Mr. Hai was detained by police several times. He has become a figure unwelcome by Hanoi’s authorities which have regularly harassed him. The old musician said Hanoi police have pressured landlords, demanding them not to allow him to rent a room for overnight stays.
Mr. Hai said he was threatened many times by pro-government thugs and plainclothes agents when he sing patriotic songs condemning China’s aggressiveness in the East Sea.
In 2012, Vietnam jailed two music compositors for writing patriotic songs condemning China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty and protesting Vietnam’s crackdown against anti-China activists. The People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Tran Vu Anh Binh to six years and Vo Minh Tri to four years in prison for anti-state propaganda.
The attack against Mr. Hai is among numerous assaults of pro-government thugs against pro-democracy and human rights activists recently.
Many bloggers, including photographer Nguyen Lan Thang and his wife Le Bich Vuong, Nguyen Chi Tuyen, Trinh Tuan Anh, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Tran Thi Nga have been harassed and attacked by pro-government thugs and plainclothes agents.
Thugs backed by the Hanoi police on October 30 attacked activists when they gathered in a local restaurant to mark the 4th anniversary of the founding of No-U FC, injuring some participants and causing damages to the restaurant. Numerous policemen and security agents stayed outside of the restaurant and did not respond to the call for help.
Four days later, thugs and a policeman in Hanoi city’s Chuong My district, assaulted two human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan after the duo visited the family of Do Dang Du, the 17-year-old boy who died on October 10 after suffering serious injuries during detention in the Hanoi-based Detention Facility No. 3.
On November 5, security forces in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City violently supressed anti-China protests on the occasion of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Southeast Asian nation. Police brutally beat a number of anti-China activists in Saigon and detained around 50 protestors in the two cities.
Vietnam has tightened political control several months ahead of the ruling communist party’s National Congress slated in early 2016. Feared by the victory of the democratic forces in the general election in Myanmar last week, the communist government in Hanoi is striving not to allow the formation of the opposition party as the ruling communists want to keep the country under a one-party regime.