Ministry of Public Security puts Viet Tan on list of terrorist organizations

The Ministry of Public Security has just issued a notice about the Viet Tan organization and officially named it a terrorist organization. Those involved in this organization will be prosecuted as accomplices in terrorism.

Information about this terrorist organization was announced by the Ministry of Public Security on the Ministry's electronic information portal. Accordingly, the Viet Tan organization's full name is "Vietnam Reform Party" with its headquarters located at: 2530 Berryessa Street 234 San Jose, California, USA and "Office 2" in Bangkok, Thailand. This organization has propaganda agencies: "Resistance" newspaper; "Vietnam Resistance" radio station and "New Horizon". The leaders are Do Hoang Diem, born in 1963, American nationality, "Chairman of Viet Tan" and Ly Thai Hung, born in 1953, American nationality, "General Secretary of Viet Tan".

The Ministry of Public Security said that Do Hoang Diem is currently the Chairman of the terrorist organization Viet Tan.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, the Viet Tan organization was founded in 1982 by Hoang Co Minh, former Brigadier General, Vice Admiral of the Navy of the former Saigon government. After that, it recruited members and trained them how to use weapons and explosives to conduct terrorist activities, sabotage, kidnapping, and hostage killings...; carried out the campaigns "Eastward Advance 1", "Eastward Advance 2", "Eastward Advance 3", sending armed groups with 246 members from Thailand through Laos and Cambodia to Vietnam to establish a "secret base", and conduct riots and terrorism, but was prevented and neutralized by the authorities of Vietnam and Laos.

Abroad, Viet Tan established the "K9 Assassin Team" led by core members, specializing in carrying out terrorism and assassinating Vietnamese journalists who reported on the fraudulent activities of overseas Vietnamese by Hoang Co Minh and his accomplices. Currently, Viet Tan continues to recruit, train, and direct members to infiltrate Vietnam to incite protests, disrupt security, riots, assassinate, and kidnap hostages; send people abroad for training, organize online training courses on methods and activities of terrorism and sabotage; disseminate instructions on the Internet on how to make petrol bombs to serve terrorist activities, sabotage, and assassination... Vietnamese authorities have arrested and prosecuted a number of Viet Tan members who committed terrorism crimes such as: Nguyen Quoc Quan, Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, Truong Leon...

In the official announcement, the Ministry of Public Security stated: Viet Tan is a terrorist organization, therefore, anyone who participates, propagates, entices, incites others to participate, sponsors, receives sponsorship from Viet Tan; participates in training courses organized by Viet Tan; operates under the direction of Viet Tan... will be an accomplice to the crime of terrorism, sponsoring terrorism and will be handled according to the provisions of Vietnamese law.

According to TNO