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Vietnam Uses Thugs as Surrogates to Keep Citizens in Line, Report Says

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Jun 21, 2017
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All over Vietnam, young toughs are being employed as a sort of police auxiliary who administer beatings to citizens that the national police aren't yet ready to arrest, or perhaps would rather not arrest, according to a new report issued on June 19 by the New York-based Human Rights Watch NGO.

The report, titled "No Country for Human Rights Activists," f…

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