Lesson 1: The reactionary organization Viet Tan and its illusions

(Baonghean)As reported by Nghe An Newspaper, in 2 days (January 8-9, 2013), Nghe An Provincial People's Court tried and sentenced 14 subjects to 82 years in prison for the crime of "activities to overthrow the people's government" directed and manipulated by Viet Tan organization. So what is Viet Tan organization? What is its origin, purpose and method of operation? Nghe An Newspaper will provide some information so that readers and people can understand more about this reactionary organization...

The war has ended, the Vietnamese people have closed the heroic past to integrate and develop. However, hostile forces still do not give up their sabotage plots in all fields and use all means to cause political instability. They even have illusions, want to change the political regime, want to eliminate the leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam, overthrow the people's government in Vietnam. Typical of these hostile forces is the organization "Vietnam Canh Tan Revolutionary Party", abbreviated as "Viet Tan".

The Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security (Vietnam) has investigated and clarified that the group of people of the Viet Tan organization, formerly puppet soldiers, puppet authorities, and civil servants of the old regime who fled before and after 1975, headed by Hoang Co Minh, former Brigadier General, Vice Admiral of the Navy of the old Saigon government. The process of establishing the Viet Tan organization is as follows: On April 30, 1980, in the state of California (USA), Hoang Co Minh, along with Dang Quoc Hien, Duong Van Tu, Nguyen Kim, Truong Tan Loc and Nguyen Huy (all officers of the old Saigon regime) established the organization "Overseas Militia Force" to fight against the Vietnamese revolution through armed activities. In 1981, Hoang Co Minh merged with the organization "Free Vietnamese" in Japan of Ly Thai Hung and the organization "Vietnam Restoration", to establish the organization "National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam", led by Hoang Co Minh. In 1982, in the mountainous region of Udon (Thailand), Hoang Co Minh established the “Vietnam Reform Party”, abbreviated as “Viet Tan”, to command all activities of the “National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam”. The platform and regulations of Viet Tan clearly stated the purpose of “ending the communist dictatorship…”, conducting armed terrorist activities, and opposing the socialist regime of Vietnam. With an expanded organizational system that seemed grand and impressive, in fact Hoang Co Minh and his accomplices were just a group of terrorists, swindlers, fame-seekers, power-hungry and money-hungry from “collected” sources, defrauding a number of overseas Vietnamese. In fact, Minh and his unemployed “comrades” in the US established the exiled reactionary organization Viet Tan just because of the illusion of wanting to continue being “bosses”.

Viet Tan has taken advantage of a small number of overseas Vietnamese for personal reasons, motivated by resentment, dissatisfaction, and some who have illusions and nostalgia for the old regime to lure and attract them. In addition to financial exploitation, Viet Tan has not hesitated to praise them, such as "democratic warriors", "progressive intellectuals", "knights of the times"... to create illusions for this group of people. Since its inception, Viet Tan has swindled money from many overseas Vietnamese and carried out activities to divide, sabotage, threaten, and even use violence against political organizations or individuals who do not obey them. In the United States, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has also established a special project to investigate a number of Viet Tan leaders for crimes of illegal business, tax evasion... Foreign press has also exposed the tricks of Viet Tan to defraud overseas Vietnamese.

With its crazy ambition, from the Udon base (Thailand), from 1982 to 1989, "Viet Tan" conducted 3 campaigns: "Eastward Advance 1", "Eastward Advance 2" and "Eastward Advance 3", sending armed groups to infiltrate Vietnam to act as "secret bases", carrying out riots and terrorist activities with the aim of overthrowing the Vietnamese people's government. Vietnamese security forces coordinated with Lao armed forces to surround, pursue, capture and destroy these stubborn people, including Hoang Co Minh, and confiscate many weapons and other means.

However, this group of exiled reactionary remnants still refused to give up their plots and ambitions to oppose the government of the Vietnamese people. With crazy illusions, they played many tricks to attract public attention. Abroad, Viet Tan launched the "yellow flag campaign" to stir up anti-Vietnam sentiment among some Vietnamese reactionaries in exile abroad; taking advantage of the "Vietnamese American Political Action Committee" (VPAC) to propagate against our State. On September 19, 2004, in Berlin (Federal Republic of Germany), they held a "launching ceremony", publicizing the Viet Tan organization, then announced it in several places around the world such as the US, Norway, France, Belgium..., to gather forces, create prestige and carry out plots and intentions against Vietnam. This organization also formed a "crossing the river" group and a "national alliance group" with the purpose of sending people back to the country to conduct terrorist activities, distribute leaflets... to incite, riot, and cause confusion among the masses. Typically, in mid-2007, Viet Tan sent its accomplices to Vietnam to carry out the "Eastward Advance 7" campaign, distributing leaflets, calling for a boycott of the 12th National Assembly election of Vietnam. More aggressively, they planned to publicize the Viet Tan organization in Vietnam by the end of 2008. At the same time, they continued to send reactionary, dissatisfied, and opportunistic political elements under the guise of overseas Vietnamese intellectuals such as Nguyen Quoc Quan, Nguyen Ngoc Duc, Nguyen Thi Thanh Van... to infiltrate Vietnam through both open and illegal channels across the Vietnam-Cambodia border.

The mission of these subjects is to train, gather forces, mobilize, and encourage their comrades in the country, disrupt security and order, distribute leaflets against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and entice relatives to join the association... Many subjects of the Viet Tan organization have been prosecuted and tried by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for treason, bandit activities, and terrorism. However, the Viet Tan remnants have not given up armed activities, inciting riots, and demonstrating against Vietnam. Therefore, the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security has put the Viet Tan organization on the list of terrorist organizations and notified the United States on April 4, 2007.

When armed and terrorist activities in Vietnam failed, Viet Tan changed its activities to the method of "peaceful evolution" and "non-violent" struggle. It did not give up its goal of eliminating the role of the Communist Party and overthrowing the people's government in Vietnam. Taking advantage of the renovation policy of our Party and State, Viet Tan continued to send many subjects to infiltrate Vietnam under many different names such as visiting relatives, tourism, investment, trade, education, repatriation to organize propaganda, develop forces and openly organize in the country. At the same time, thoroughly exploit information technology to conduct acts of searching, contacting, attracting, and recruiting a number of domestic subjects to become members of the organization and assigning tasks to these subjects to carry out activities such as disseminating reactionary articles and documents on the Internet, taking advantage of issues of sovereignty over seas and islands, fighting against negativity... to incite and incite the masses to protest, incite workers to strike, and take unpaid wages in order to plot activities against our state. Recently, the Viet Tan organization led by Do Hoang Diem and key leaders such as Luong Van My, aka "Duong", "Tran", Nguyen Kim, aka "Tan", Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, aka "Thao", Nguyen Ngoc Duc, aka "Quang", Nguyen Hoang Thanh Tam, aka "Thanh", Ngo Trong Duc, aka "Minh", Nguyen Quang Quan... have gone to several Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, and Cambodia to attract, entice, and send a number of domestic subjects abroad for training and recruitment into the Viet Tan organization. Viet Tan's plan is to use many methods and tricks to demand pluralism and multi-party opposition, to carry out the intention of publicizing Viet Tan in the country, under the guise of "non-violent struggle" and "national reform" to eliminate the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam, overthrow the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, sabotage the achievements of the revolution, and sabotage the people's government that generations of Vietnamese people have shed so much blood and intelligence to regain.



The defendants at trial.

Returning to the case of 14 defendants who were recently tried and sentenced to 82 years in prison by the People's Court of Nghe An province for "activities to overthrow the people's government" under Clause 1, Clause 2, Article 79 - Penal Code. During the period from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2011, these subjects were repeatedly sent abroad by the Viet Tan organization for training, coaching, introduction of the principles, purposes and action plans to overthrow the people's government by the form of "peaceful evolution". Notably, the "Quang Trung 711" training course in Thailand from July 25 to 30, 2011. The content of the training course is “non-violent” struggle methods and propaganda, instructions on “history of Viet Tan organization and Viet Tan websites”, “program to overcome firewalls and network security”, “announcement of international and Vietnamese situations”, “methods of selecting people to join the organization”, “inciting “wronged people”, “leadership skills”, “how to deal with security agencies”… All expenses for trips to Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, the United States… and training courses are paid by the leaders of the “Viet Tan” organization abroad. After completing the training courses, these subjects are “inducted” into the organization by Viet Tan. These subjects are also provided with money and equipment such as computers, cameras, secret cameras, phones… by Viet Tan and instructed to use aliases to return to the country to carry out criminal activities to avoid detection by authorities.

Returning to Vietnam, they carried out the following tasks: propagandizing to develop forces, inciting the masses to cause disorder and instability, writing articles distorting the Party's viewpoints and policies, taking advantage of the anti-corruption fight to carry out political schemes under the direction and manipulation of Viet Tan's "core" elements abroad. The actions of these subjects were part of the activities serving the "illusion" of overthrowing the people's government and eliminating the leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam by the Viet Tan organization. This was clearly shown in the defendants' statements during their work with the investigation agency as well as at the trial. Especially the statement of defendant Ho Duc Hoa (alias Thin), born in 1974, permanent residence in Hamlet 4, Quynh Vinh Commune, Quynh Luu District, Nghe An - a participant and active activist for the Viet Tan organization. Hoa said that during the training courses, the core members of Viet Tan gave lectures on "non-violent struggle methods" which clearly stated the goal of Viet Tan: "Using non-violent struggle methods to eliminate the leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam, implementing a pluralistic, multi-party system", "Viet Tan's activities have 4 stages: preparation stage; force building stage; flag raising stage, publicizing Viet Tan in the country and the final stage, mobilizing the masses, forcing the Communist Party of Vietnam to accept implementing pluralism, multi-party system"...

Thus, although it has changed its form many times and has been “breathed on” by forces that are against Vietnam, over the past several decades, Viet Tan has only been a mixed group of small groups of people with anti-people and anti-national ideology, and has only been a tool for foreign countries to sabotage the country. The fact that Viet Tan has changed from “armed” and “terrorist” activities to “peaceful” and “non-violent” activities is only a change in its method of operation with a more sophisticated form of “peaceful evolution” under the guise of “democracy”, “human rights”, and “green revolution” as has happened in some countries around the world, but the nature and purpose of this reactionary, terrorist organization in exile have not changed at all. This is not a new trick, but the method of operation that the reactionary organization Viet Tan has long applied to our country’s revolution, the ultimate goal of this organization is to overthrow the people’s government - the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The plots, tricks and illusions of the reactionaries are so crazy, vicious and cunning, therefore, more than ever, all classes of people need to heighten the spirit of revolutionary vigilance, prevent and smash all their plots and plans of terrorist and sabotage activities in order to protect our Party - the vanguard of the working class, the working people and the Vietnamese nation; protect our State - a state of the people, by the people and for the people!

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