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uman Rights Watch said in a statement that on April 30, thousands of Hmong began to gather near Huoi Khon village in the Muong Nhe district of Dien Bien. On May 4-5, Vietnamese military troops and helicopters moved in to suppress the assembled people, it said. There were unconfirmed reports that a number of Hmong were killed or injured, it said, noting that the authorities had sealed the area and refused permission to foreign diplomats and journalists to travel there. “The Vietnam government can’t just throw a dark shroud over this situation and pretend that everything is back to normal," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "When communal unrest like this is handled behind closed doors, it creates conditions ripe for abuse–and for impunity,” he said. “The government’s credibility in the situation hinges on letting independent journalists and observers to go to this remote area and see for themselves what happened.”

Last week, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong visited Muong Nhe district and declared that “stability has been restored.”

The U.S. State Department said it was aware of the Hmong protests and had sought details from the Vietnamese government. "Our embassy in Hanoi has been in regular contact with relevant Vietnamese government officials and other contacts in the region to inquire about reports on the violence and then we also inquired about unconfirmed reports of possible deaths associated with these protests," a department official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We urge all parties involved to avoid violence and to resolve any differences peacefully and in accordance with the Vietnamese law and internationally recognized human rights standards," the official said.

Human Rights Watch wanted the Vietnamese authorities to conduct a no-holds-barred probe supervised by a committee that includes representative members of the Hmong ethnic community. It should look into the reasons for the unrest, allegations of excessive violence by government authorities, and violence by protesters, and make public the findings, the group said. Access to Muong Nhe and other parts of Dien Bien province, as well as adjoining provinces, should be given to for foreign journalists, Hanoi-based diplomats, UN agencies, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to conduct "independent investigations," it said.

Human Rights Watch also asked the authorities to release names of all those arrested in connection with the unrest, and reveal their current location and any charges filed against them. “Vietnam’s past track record in handling ethnic protests in other remote areas includes widespread arrests, abuses in detention, religious repression, trumped up charges, and use of excessive force,” Robertson said. “Vietnam’s donors should demand that the government conduct a fully independent and transparent investigation to get to the bottom of these incidents.” Vietnam's northwest is home to various hill tribes as well as stubborn pockets of deep poverty. The government has a six trillion dong ($286 million) plan to reduce poverty in the region, and conditions there have already improved, said John Hendra, outgoing chief of the UN's Vietnam mission.
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thousands of children are living and working on the streets of Vietnam's cities. Michael Brosowski is trying to give many of them a chance at a brighter future. Through Brosowski's Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, more than 350 Vietnamese children have been given safe shelter and enrolled in school. The organization has a network of programs in cities throughout Vietnam, and it recently broadened its efforts to combat child trafficking. So far, it has rescued more than 100 trafficked children. Brosowski recently spoke with CNN about the struggles facing Vietnam's street children.



CNN: Who are Vietnam's street kids?

Michael Brosowski: When we were starting out back in 2002, the kids were pretty much all boys coming from rural areas. And they were coming to make a little bit of money to supplement the family income. Mom and dad can hardly afford money to send the rest of the kids to school, can't afford to get enough food on the table, so they think, well, you might as well go to Hanoi and work. These days, we're mostly coming across runaway children, and it's where kids are having some kind of family problem. Poverty is usually part of the problem, but it's not the only problem. Very often, there might be alcoholism, sometimes drug use. It might be that one of the parents has died and the remaining parent has remarried and then that new husband and wife couple don't want the kids from the previous marriage. So kids are ending up now on the streets of Hanoi more because they feel unwanted at home rather than coming here to earn money to support the family.



CNN: What dangers do the kids face on the streets in Vietnam?

Brosowski: The dangers now are much greater, and there are more of them than when we started out. There's a lot more gang activity on the streets and a lot more cases of trafficking. One reason that street kids here in Vietnam are mostly boys is that the families have this view that the girls should be somewhere safe and secure, but the boys are fine (and) they can wander around at will. In reality, they're not fine. In reality, the boys are facing gangs, they're facing arrest. And the longer they're out on the street, the worse habits they learn. There are gangs selling heroin, and heroin here is very cheap, widely accessible and a lot of people's job is to get young people hooked on it so that then they've got to start buying it. Meanwhile, the girls ... they're going to end up in positions that can very often be exploitative or abusive. So we've also got to think about how to protect the girls.

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