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Communist Vietnam Embassy in Rhino Row
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A Vietnamese embassy senior diplomat, Vu Moc Anh (the first secretary) has allegedly been caught red-handed on film in an illegal rhinoceros horn transaction in front of the embassy building in Pretoria. The footage was captured by the SABC's nature investigations programme, 50/50, two months ago at a time when conservationists fear that the rhino wars of the Eighties are flaring up again.
This year alone more than 40 rhinos have been killed in South Africa, with about 30 of them thought to have been poached in the Kruger Park and 12 in KwaZulu-Natal parks.
In addition, conservationists have accused Zimbabwean and Mozambican conservation authorities of doing too little to stem a new wave of organised poaching, while warning that poaching activities could soon erupt in a "free for all". Under international law it is illegal to trade rhino horn products and in South Africa it is an offence, carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail and a R250 000 fine.
Most fingers point to Vietnamese Communist syndicates, which have sought to monopolise the rhino horn trade in recent years.
A member of a special government investigating team told the Mail & Guardian this week that staff of the Vietnamese embassy were thought to be involved in rhino horn trafficking and were using diplomatic pouches to smuggle the horns to the Far East.
The 50/50 footage -- to be aired on Monday night -- shows a woman thought to be the embassy receptionist talking to a known agent of a rhino horn smuggling syndicate, who hands her a horn. Smiling, she then heads into the embassy.
50/50 tried to get comment from the embassy for two months, without success. The embassy declined to comment to the M&G, but requested a meeting with the paper next week where it promised to respond to the allegations.
Last year the Vietnamese daily, Thanh Nien, reported that South African police had complained to the embassy that one of its officials was conveying rhino horns out of South Africa. Vietnamese authorities allegedly took action against the official, but he was not charged here.
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  • Disgusting hope people are punished

  • Một tin kinh tỡm đã đăng trên báo Đài Loan xuất bản hôm qua, thằng hồ chí minh là 1 tên mắc bệnh chuyên sờ mó trẽ em (molestation). Còn clips mà Hồ hun chụt chụt tên chệt Mao trên net, tờ này tiết lộ, Hồ & Mao là 2 tên bê đê (gays). Ai trong chúng ta cũng đều rõ, tất cả các chủ tịch cộng sản ác độc hay dính phải ~ chứng bệnh cha truyền con nối đáng khinh bĩ này.

  • History has proved that VCs are just murderers, liars, cheaters, robbers and slave drivers. Nothing more!

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