Tân Vietnamese soldier

Việt Tân (Left for the reform the Vietnam) (Vietnamese Việt Nam Canh Tân Cách Mạng Đảng or Việt Tân in summary) is an active network in Vietnam and throughout the world, which wishes to promote the Démocratie and country by peaceful means reforms it. It was founded on September 10th, 1982 by the vice-admiral Hoang Co Minh, then elected first president of the party. The Vietnamese Communist party being only authorized in Vietnam, Viêt Tân has no legal existence there.

Current leaders

  • President: C Hoang Diem
  • General secretary: Thai Ly Hung

Viêt Tân held his 6ère Congrès in September 2006. Its members elected the central committee, with at its head Do Hoang Diem as president and Thai Ly Hung as general secretary.

Objectives

Viêt Tân wishes to establish the Démocratie and to reform the Vietnam by peaceful means. The organization proposes to be based on the forces and the resources of the Vietnamese people itself to establish a democratic government. Viêt Tân wants to improve the social wellbeing and to restore the civil laws by promoting pluralism in Vietnam.

History

The April 30th 1980, the plain National front of release of Vietnam is founded by various groups in Vietnam, with at her head Hoang Co Minh elected president. Two years later, the group is then reorganized and takes the name of Tân Vietnamese soldier, when it becomes a clandestine world network. While the purpose of the first entity was to reverse the Communist regime through a popular rising, the second tends to renovate Vietnam by average policies and peaceful.

During the period of 1982 with 1987, Hoang Co Minh directed the organization until it is captured and killed by official Vietnamese at the time of a clandestine operation in Vietnam the August 28th 1987. During the period which followed, Viêt Tân is remained an clandestine organization.

The September 19th 2004, the organization was publicly presented under the official name of " Party for the reform of Vietnam ". Its posted political program stresses the use of peaceful means to establish democratic pluralism in Vietnam.

The May 29th 2007, the president of the party Do Hoang Diem is invited by the president of the United States George W. Bush with three other activists Vietnamese-American at the White House to discuss the climbing of repression against the dissidents in Vietnam and to the next visit to the Prime Minister Nguyen Minh Triet in the United States. President Do Hoang Diem has enjoint the president of the United States to make pressure on Vietnam so that it respects the human rights and asked the United States to support in a way open the democratic change to Vietnam.

Arrests in 2007

The November 17th 2007, three members of the Tân Vietnamese soldier, the French citizen Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, a journalist and corresponding for Radio operator Chan Troi Me, and the American citizens Nguyen Quoc Quan (a researcher in mathematics), and Truong Van Ba (a restorer), were stopped in district 11 of Ho Chi Minh city. They were taking part in a seminar on the democracy, when 20 police officers invested the places. Were also stopped the Vietnamese citizen inhabitant of Thailand Somsak Khunmi and two citizens: Nguyen The Considering (a business manager) and his/her brother Nguyen The Khiem.

Three days later, the November 20th, the police force stopped another Vietnamese Nguyen Viet Trung, with Phan Thiet. Nguyen Viet Trung is a businessman born in 1979, the youngest brother of Nguyen The Considering. The arrests were confirmed by the government only the November 22nd. During the press conference, the official ones refused to say which laws had been violated, and did not give any information about Nguyen Quoc Quan, whose fate remains unknown.

Reporters Without Frontières immediately condemned these arrests by alerting the press. Vis-a-vis these arrests, Viêt Tân launched a worldwide campaign under the name of " Release to them " who includes/understands a petition on line asking the assistance of the governments American, French and for inhabitant of Thailand to obtain the immediate liberation of these individuals.

Recent actions

  • November 2007: Countryside Release them!
  • March 2007: Worldwide campaign to support the militants for the democracy in Vietnam
  • September 2006: Testimony at the time of Caucus of the Congress of the United States on the Human rights.

External bonds

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