Thu, Dec 11, 2003 - Page 5 News List

Vietnam's anti-crime executions continue unabated

APPEALS IGNORED Although Vietnam has reduced the number of crimes eligible for the death penalty, the pleas of rights groups to stop judicial killings are shrugged off

AFP , HANOI

Spectators are welcome to attend the grisly spectacle, but the victim's family is rarely informed. Instead they are ordered to come and recover personal belongings two or three days later.

The body of the executed is only made available to their families for formal funerals three years later.

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