(1)<\/a>\u00a0: \u201cthey made fake documents, fabricated evidence, falsely accused innocent comrades (i.e. Cambodian Communist cadres), then used intimidation and torture to extract confessions of crimes they had never committed. These [Cambodian communist cadres] were subjected to such atrocious psychological and physical sufferings that many subsequently committed suicide\u201d<\/i>. General Le Duc Anh, the military commander in Cambodia was linked to this affair\u00a0;<\/p>\n– The \u201cSau Su Affair\u201d in 1991\u00a0:<\/b> Before the VCP 7th Party Congress, there was a power struggle within the VCP, and a faction led by Vo Nguyen Giap was gaining favour over the orthodox line. In order to undermine this, GD2 recorded the fabricated testimonies of an agent named \u201cSau Su\u201d calumniating Vo Nguyen Giap, Tran Van Tra and other top cadres in his group. These documents were so realistic that \u201cthey deceived the Politburo, the VCP Secretary-general and the Central Committee and many other faithful Party members… This grave slander affair led to deep schisms within the Party and the military leadership which still bear a significant damaging influence today\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n
– The T4 Affair\u00a0:<\/b> T4 was the name of a fictitious secret agent created by GD2, who was supposedly infiltrated into the CIA. This \u201cagent\u201d filed \u201chundreds of written and oral reports. The aim was to slander Party cadres and government officials by providing so-called \u201cinside information\u201d from the CIA on cadres who were allegedly being manipulated, or said to have links or affiliations with the CIA. Those accused included Vo Nguyen Giap, Vo Van Kiet, Phan Van Khai, Le Kha Phieu, Mai Chi Tho, Truong Tan Sang\u201d<\/i> and many others. <\/p>\n
Nguyen Nam Khanh\u2019s letter cites extracts from the GD2\u2019s \u201cNews Bulletins\u201d on various top-level cadres, e.g.\u00a0: <\/p>\n
– \u201cRe Vo Nguyen Giap\u00a0:<\/b> After the 8th VCP Congress, the CIA ordered \u201cgroup Z\u201d (the group led by Giap) to mobilize support for their views and ideas. They were to use \u201cHo Chi Minh thought\u201d in order to reject Marxism-Leninism, separate the two ideologies and use Ho Chi Minh thought as a basis to launch a movement for \u201cpeople\u2019s democracy\u201d<\/i> (News bulletin 49\/96TR, 7.7.1996)\u00a0;<\/p>\n
– \u201cRe Mai Chi Tho<\/b><\/i> (aka Nam Xuan, former Minister of the Interior, brother of Le Duc Tho, note by the VCHR)\u00a0: \u201cCharles Rey, the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, visited Nam Xuan at his home. This is abnormal. We do not know the contents of this meeting…\u201d<\/i> (News bulletin 5.10.1999). Also on Mai Chi Tho, during the \u201cSau Su Affair\u201d, the GD2 reported\u00a0: \u201cWarning \u2013 Mai Chi Tho and his clique are about to stage a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat\u201d<\/b><\/i>. <\/p>\n
– \u201cRe Nong Duc Manh\u00a0:<\/b> We are informed that Nong Duc Manh is working in connivance with Minh Phung<\/i> (a firm involved in one of Vietnam\u2019s largest graft scandals, note by the VCHR). Tang Minh Phung had done a lot of favours for comrade Manh, who was very displeased when Minh Phung was arrested\u201d<\/i> (News bulletin No 351\/97\/TR, 17.12.1997).<\/p>\n
Nguyen Nam Khanh affirms that the GD2\u2019s agents are infiltrated everywhere, and they use all means of communication, including the Internet, to foment divisions within Party ranks and protect their own political prot\u00e9g\u00e9s. They do not hesitate to entertain relations with the criminal underworld, \u201cproviding intelligence service passes to members of the Nam Cam criminal gang, and working closely with them\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It is uncertain whether these issues were indeed discussed at the VCP Central Committee\u2019s 10th Plenum. Previous efforts to \u201creform the Party from within\u201d by veterans such as Nguyen Van Khanh, the late Nguyen Van Tran and others have rarely been taken into account, and indeed have often led to expulsion from the Party or arrest, as in the cases of the late Lt.-General Tran Do or military historian Pham Que Duong. <\/p>\n
Commenting on this document, VCHR President Vo Van Ai said\u00a0: \u201cNguyen Nam Khan\u2019s letter reveals the existence of a veritable State within the State, exposing a situation far worse than we imagined. Those who think there is an on-going \u201cdemocratic\u201d debate within the VCP should think again after reading this… The Party\u2019s ubiquitous secret services have no qualms about using slander, torture and political assassinations to control the Party and State leadership, and serve the interests of a covert group of individuals…\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n
For Mr. Ai, \u201cthe existence of this powerful secret service has grave implications, not only for VCP leaders but especially for the ordinary men and women of Vietnam, the workers, intellectuals, independent religious leaders, political dissidents and critics from all walks of life… As long as Vietnam is ruled by secret and omnipotent forces like the GD2, there can be no hope of progress towards the rule of law. The millions of dollars provided by the World Bank, UNDP, IMF and the international community to finance Vietnam\u2019s Legal System Development Strategy (LSDS) and other \u201cpro-democracy\u201d programs will be wasted unless the reign of impunity of the VCP and its secret services is brought to an end\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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\nThe full text of the letter of Nguyen Nam Khanh (in Vietnamese)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>(1)<\/a> Many high-level Cambodian Communists had begun to resent being maintained under Vietnamese tutelage. Pen Sovan, Defence Minister and Secretary-general of the Kampuchean People\u2019s Revolutionary Party, who was handpicked by the Vietnamese, had to be summarily dismissed for his defiant attitude towards Hanoi in 1981. He was sent to Vietnam and placed under house arrest for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has obtained a copy of a letter sent by a high-ranking military veteran to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) leadership which sheds new light on the inner workings of the VCP\u2019s military intelligence services, and exposes deep schisms within the leadership of the VCP. The revelations in this letter …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-vchr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Major-General Khanh addressed his letter (dated 17 June 2004) to VCP Secretary-general Nong Duc Manh, the Politburo and the VCP Central Control Committee, urging that these \u201cextremely serious issues\u201d<\/i> be raised at the 10th Plenum of the VCP\u2019s Central Committee in Hanoi in July 2004. Grave power abuse within the military intelligence is well known to the Politburo, he said, but \u201dthe crimes have never been elucidated and certain top Party leaders have never been sanctioned… This situation is causing great concern amongst Party members regarding the transparency of our Party\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n