The 65th anniversary of Vietnam – Poland diplomatic relations ( February 04 1950 – February 04 2015) presented us, a group of reporters, with an opportunity to visit Poland. For so long, Poland has been in our heart with deep affection as a country that bravely fought against the ruthless Nazi regime during the Second World War. Upon our arrival in Poland, we took a trip to the suburban Wolka Kosowska of Masovian province, which is about 30km away from Warsaw and densely populated by overseas Vietnamese.
En route to Wolka Kosowska, by a happy chance we met and talked with Boryslaw, a Polish journalist majoring on public policy research and writing, with a view to a better understanding of the local Vietnamese community. “The Vietnamese community in Poland consists of about 20,000 – 25,000 people, including merchants and a small number of overseas students. Most of them maintain good compliance with local laws and the community is viewed as a successful one in Poland”, said Boryslaw. However, he also expressed his disappointment over several violations of Polish laws aimed for illegal benefits, especially those by Tran Ngoc Thanh and his so-called Committee for the Protection of Vietnamese Laborers (formerly known as the Federation of Free Vietnamese Labor). As far as we had known, Thanh was an overseas student in Poland who managed by trickery, sometimes in defiance of Polish law, to make money. It didn’t take him long to become the owner of two stores in Warsaw and Gdansk. And what’s more, Thanh profited from bringing illegal immigrants into Poland - a kind of “human trafficking”. In 2002 alone, Thanh brought more than 300 people into Poland and Yugoslavia for a fee of $7000 - $10,000 per person. In 2006, Thanh out of the blue “gave birth” to the so-called “Committee for the Protection of Vietnamese Laborers” and entitled himself “the protector of laborers”, which is a disguise for his frauds and political conspiracies.
En route to Wolka Kosowska, by a happy chance we met and talked with Boryslaw, a Polish journalist majoring on public policy research and writing, with a view to a better understanding of the local Vietnamese community. “The Vietnamese community in Poland consists of about 20,000 – 25,000 people, including merchants and a small number of overseas students. Most of them maintain good compliance with local laws and the community is viewed as a successful one in Poland”, said Boryslaw. However, he also expressed his disappointment over several violations of Polish laws aimed for illegal benefits, especially those by Tran Ngoc Thanh and his so-called Committee for the Protection of Vietnamese Laborers (formerly known as the Federation of Free Vietnamese Labor). As far as we had known, Thanh was an overseas student in Poland who managed by trickery, sometimes in defiance of Polish law, to make money. It didn’t take him long to become the owner of two stores in Warsaw and Gdansk. And what’s more, Thanh profited from bringing illegal immigrants into Poland - a kind of “human trafficking”. In 2002 alone, Thanh brought more than 300 people into Poland and Yugoslavia for a fee of $7000 - $10,000 per person. In 2006, Thanh out of the blue “gave birth” to the so-called “Committee for the Protection of Vietnamese Laborers” and entitled himself “the protector of laborers”, which is a disguise for his frauds and political conspiracies.
