I could not believe my eyes when I saw the headline from the Web site of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The headline read: "Mercedes Benz Leads Vietnam Auto Sales Growth". According to Mercedes-Benz Vietnam (MBV) office, the sales of Mercedes-Benz in Vietnam rose 70 percent last year despite a horrible economic slowdown.
The cost of the standard option Mercedes Benz is about $100,000 U.S. dollars or higher. Aside from the actual cost of the car, the owner of a brand new Mercedes Benz has to pay an additional 70 percent tax on imported cars and parts. However, the sales of luxury foreign cars such as Mercedes Benz did not drop in Vietnam, instead it rose 70 percent last year.
Overall, sales of Mercedes Benz rose to 2,119 units, led by 1,146 units of the 16-seat Sprinter van. The average Vietnamese, if he was lucky to have a job, earned less than $600 U.S. dollars a year, even if an average Vietnamese work for over 100 years without spending his salary on food and other essentials, he still could not afford to buy a Benz, so who bought all these luxury automobiles in Vietnam ? I'll give you a hint, look at what cars the Vietnamese officials and their children is driving. Never in the 5,000 history of Vietnam has any government been so corrupt as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Never in Vietnamese history has the gap between the rich and poor been so wide as it is today.
The government officials in Vietnam and members of the Vietnamese Communist Party often calls themselves "servants of the people", it's funny how all the socialists "servants" lives the life of the rich and infamous while their "masters", the people of Vietnam wallow in poverty.
I was looking through some of my notes on Vietnam and ran across this forgotten gem from last year. On December 21, 2008, Madam Bảy Vân, the wife of the former Chairman of the Vietnamese Communist Party Lê Duẩn did an interview with the Vietnamese bureau of the BBC. Madam Bảy Vân reveals several important facts including how the North Vietnamese "lend" the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos to the People Republic of China for "safe keeping" in 1958. At that time, the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos belong to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), so I'm not sure how the North Vietnamese could lend territories that don't belong to them to China. That is like the U.S government "lending" provinces in Mexico to China even though the provinces doesn' belong to the U.S. Some of the key points in Madam Bảy Vân interview is how reluctant the PRC was in helping the North Vietnamese and what kind of sacrifice the North Vietnamese was willing to endure.
Here is what Madam Bảy Vân has to say: "China was afraid that the vietnamese would defeat the Americans. China [ the People Republic of China] wanted Vietnam [the North Vietnamese] to wait until China becomes stronger, then China will help the Vietnamese pushed the Americans out to the Eastern sea. However, Anh Ba (Madam Bảy Vân often called her late husband Anh Ba instead of his maiden name) states that Vietnam has our own ways of doing things, If you comrade help us then we lose 10 millions people [in the war against the South Vietnamese and Americans], without your help, we will lose more people, but we will still liberate our country".
In 1971, 1972, the total population of Vietnam was around 42 millions, with 18 millions living in South Vietnam and 24 millions living in the north. Madam Bảy Vân claimed that her husband was willing to "sacrifice" the lives of 10 millions North Vietnamese or more in the war against South Vietnam until he and the Vietnamese Communist win the war. Usually for every two North Vietnamese who was wounded, at least one dies. So according to Madam Bảy Vân, Lê Duẩn and the Vietnamese Communist Party was willing to suffer a casualty of 20 millions wounded and 10 millions dead in order to win the war. The entire North Vietnamese population was expandable to the North Vietnamese leaders.
Madam Bảy Vân posing with a reporter from the BBC
This revelation shows that the American politicians and military leaders were fools. The Americans thought that the North Vietnamese leaders would quit if they suffered enough casualty, but it was the Americans, who quit. The North Vietnamese leaders don't care about the lost of lives, since their wives and children were often sent oversea to study and only the stupid peasants or those without connections had the "privileges" to die in the war. Also, it was chilling how nonchalant Madam Bảy Vân was when she talks about "sacrificing" 10 million North Vietnamese lives. It was as if she was talking about the lost of 10 million insignificant insects.
In the same interview with the BBC, Madam Bảy Vân also reveal that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam anti-corruption campaigns is just "propaganda and lip service", Madam Bảy Vân should knows something about corruption since she lives in the Phú Mỹ Hưng area. Phú Mỹ Hưng is an exclusive area and even the cheapest house in this neighborhood cost more than $2,000,000 U.S dollars. In Vietnam, there is no loan for mortgages, when you buy a house, you have to pay for the full value of the house at the time of the transaction. The average Vietnamese makes less than $600 U.S dollars a year. The Vietnamese Communist officials and people like Madam Bảy Vân makes only several hundred dollars a month in salary or pension, so how could Madam Bảy Vân and other Communist officials owned villas that cost over several millions U.S dollars ?
The American press often lambasted the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The South Vietnamese officials were usually portrayed as corrupt while the North Vietnamese leaders was often view as virtuous. After the war ended in 1975, those South Vietnamese whom, the American press called corrupt such as South Vietnamese president Thieu, ARVN general Nguyen Van Toan, General Dang Van Quang and other ARVN generals has to work for a living and they usually lived in lower middle class neighborhood until they passed away. Stories about South Vietnamese politicians with millions in secret Swiss bank accounts were just fanciful tales. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam officials and members of the Vietnamese Communist Party is at least 10 times more corrupt than the South Vietnamese ever was, yet we hear no complain about them from the American press.
The Vietnamese is a proud race of people with a history that is as rich and evocative as any other nations in the world. Recent archaeological finds suggest that people have inhabited today Northern Vietnam at least 500,000 years ago. The early Vietnamese was engaged in primitive farming as early as 7000 B.C. Around 3 B.C, the Bronze Age Dong Son culture emerged giving us the beautiful bronze drums and sophisticated bronze weapons. The ancient Viet culture was matriarchal and ancients Vietnamese laws and customs gave women much more rights than other societies in the region.
Ma Yuan Statues
The misfortune of the Vietnamese is that they live near a powerful neighbor who ancient leaders often view themselves being the “children of heaven”, as such they are more “civilize” and “cultured” than their neighbor and has the manifest destiny to rule over their tiny neighbors. The Chinese ruled Vietnam from 207 B.C to 939 A.D The Vietnamese gain their brief independent from China, when the Trưng sisters and their tiny army routed the Chinese in 40 B.C, the Trưng sisters’ government lasted for three years before the Chinese led by the great Chinese general Ma Yuan defeated the Vietnamese. In 939 B.C, the Vietnamese gain true independent from China when the Vietnamese military genius Ngô Quyền defeated the Southern Han forces at the battle of Bạch Đằng River1.
Throughout the 1000 years of Chinese’s domination, the Chinese tries to destroy any evidence that the Vietnamese existed as people long before Chinese’s domination. Vietnamese was force to assimilate Chinese’s culture, speak Chinese’s language and adopt Chinese’s customs. However, despite pressure from their Chinese masters, the Vietnamese did retain their own language, culture and heritage even as they were being enslaved. The Chinese desire to subjugate the Vietnamese and reclaim what they view as their properties did not stop after the Vietnamese regained their independent,Chinese dynasty from the Sung, Yuan, Ming and Qing have invaded Vietnam using different pretext but none could subjugate the Vietnamese.
The Lost of Vietnamese territories to China during Ho Chi Minh era
According to the official documents published by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1979, the PeopleRepublicChina has annexed large area of Vietnamese land since 1956. The white paper “Vấn Đề Biên Giới Giữa Việt Nam Và Trung Quốc” published by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Secretary of Foreign Affairs accused China of taken advantage of the isolation of the area near the China – Vietnam’s border to move large number of Chinese to these areas and blatantly remake Chinese’s map to include these areas as part of Chinese’s territories. of
Annexation through Illegal immigration
Documents from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam revealed that in 1956, the People Republic of China moved large number of Chinese into the Trình Tường area of Quảng Ninh province in North Vietnam and incorporate this area into Kwang Xi province. An entire area of 6 kms deep inside Vietnamese territories was lost to China2. The Trình Tường area was not the only incident, there were 40 separate incidents in 1956 where the People Republic of China use force to annexed land that have belong to the Vietnamese for generations such as the annexation of Thanh Loa and Cao Lộc villages in Lạng Sơn province, Khăm Khau in Cao Bằng, Tà Lùng, Làn Phù Phìn, Minh Tân in Hà Tuyên province, 300 hectares(300 hectares are equivalent to 741.3 acres) of land in the area around the village of Nặm Chay in Hoàng Liên Sơn was also annexed by Chinese illegal immigrants.3
Annexation through Joint Business and military ventures
In 1955, the PeopleRepublic of China sent a large number of engineers and members of the People Liberation Army of China to help the North Vietnamese built the Sino-Vietnamese railroad. However,the Chinese did not leave North Vietnam after the completion of the railroad, instead, the area along thetracks of the Sino-Vietnamese railroad was annexed as part of the new territories of the PeopleRepublic of China. Over 300 m2 of Vietnamese territories in North Vietnam was incorporated into the PRC. In 1974, the North Vietnamese politely asked the Chinese to return the land to Vietnam but the request was refused4.
There were many other incidents involving blatant Chinese’s aggression and expansionism against the North Vietnamese throughout the Ho Chi Minh era. The PeopleRepublic of China had slowly taken part of Vietnamese land around the Bản Giốc Waterfall. On February 20, 1970, the PeopleRepublic of China sent over 2000 heavily armed PLA soldiers and workers to block off the area around the Đàm Thuỷ Hamlet of Cao Bằng province, this was the site of the famous Vietnamese landmark Bản Giốc Waterfall.The PeopleRepublic of China has always recognized this famous area as part of Vietnamese territory but in 1970, China decided unilaterally that the area was to be part of the PeopleRepublic of China’s territories.
Aside from the Bản Giốc waterfall, other area in the Cao Bằng province was also taken by force by the Chinese’s People Liberation Army such as the town of Ái Điểm, Bình Mãng and a large area of land near the border marker #43 and border marker #114 was annexed by the PRC by force. Almost every joint venture between the PeopleRepublic of China and the North Vietnamese during the Ho Chi Minh’s era resulted in the Chinese annexing Vietnamese territories near the site of the joint venture5.
Annexation through the manipulations of border markers
The North Vietnamese claimed that since the 1950’s the PRC has moved many of the border markers deep inside Vietnamese territory, thereby gaining more land through the manipulation of border markers. The manipulation often went unnoticed in sparsely populated area. However, there were incidents of manipulation so blatant and brazen that it attracted the attention of the North Vietnamese officials. One of the most blatant examples of Chinese’s border marker manipulation occurred right under the watchful eyes of the North Vietnamese at the Chi Ma area of Lạng Sơn province.
There was also other blatant manipulation of border mark such as the manipulation at the border marker 1356 at Cao Bằng province, Kùm Mu-Kim, Ngân-Mẫu Sơn involving the border marker # 41, #42 and #43 at Lạng Sơn province in which an area 9 km square was lost to the aggression of the PRC.Over 1000 hectares of land was lost at the Nà Pảng-Kéo Trình area. At Cao Bằng province, the PRC manipulation of the border markers resulted in the lost of an estimated 200 hectare of Vietnamese territories to China6.
Annexation through the use of force
From 1953 to 1967, the PeopleRepublic of China using the People Liberation Army annexed a large number of lands in North Vietnam. In 1953 at the Trà Mần-Suối Lũng near the border marker #136 to #137, the PLA move a large number of Chinese illegal aliens into Vietnamese land in North Vietnam. The illegal aliens established three hamlets in North Vietnam, the Chinese named their new hamlet Si Lung. The illegal aliens’ hamlets later expand to villages and in 1967, large number of commerce, schools and other enterprise sprang forth from these towns.
Similar incidents also occurred at the area near border marker #2 and #3 at Nậm Chảy, Mường Khương in the Hoàng Liên Sơn area. From 1967 to 1968, large number of Chinese of the Mèo extraction from Yun Nan province pours into North Vietnam and illegally occupied a large area of land in North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese regime under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh politely asked the PeopleRepublic of China to remove the Chinese squatters but China refused.
Ho’s regime did nothing but watch the squatters pour in from China. The squatters’ area expanded into large villages. The squatters called their village the “Sìn Sài Thàng”. Sensing the impotent of the Ho Chi Minh regime and the Vietnamese Communist Party, the brazen Chinese squatters expanded their area and in 1976, the People Republic of China moved several units of the PLA into the squatters’ area to “protect Chinese citizens and Chinese land” from the North Vietnamese7.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam "white paper" on the lost of Vietnamese territories to China
While Ho Chi Minh claims to be a “patriot”, Ho and the Vietnamese Communist Party did nothing to stop the PeopleRepublic of China from seizing Vietnamese land. In 1958, Ho Chi Minh actually encourages the PRC’s expansionist behaviors by ordering North Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to send a letter to the PRC’s Prime Minister Zhou Enlai recognizing the PRC sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos. Lưu Văn Lợi, the famous North Vietnamese foreign diplomat later claimed, “Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng had no intention of tackling a juridical question, the question of territory or sovereignty, nor spoke of the Hoàng Sa and the Truờng Sa. He was thinking only of one thing: the bellicosity of US imperialism and the activities of the 7th fleet in the Taiwan straight which were threatening China. These factors led him to make as soon as possible a gesture of support for the fixation of the 12-mile width of the territorial waters so as to help create an obstacle to the US schemes8.”
The explanation by Lưu Văn Lợi is ridiculous if taken in context of the large number of incidents of Chinese's aggression. Why would Ho “lend” the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos to the PeopleRepublic of China for “safekeeping” when there are countless examples of the PRC using force or wiles to annex Vietnamese land? It is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop. Is Ho Chi Minh stupid or he did not care how much Vietnamese territories he has to give away as long he can achieve his own personal goals ? Vietnamese land belongs to all Vietnamese, what right does Ho and his regime has in giving away Vietnamese territories for their own benefit?
Vietnam has lost land to China before, but never in the 5,000 years history of Vietnam had any Vietnamese government given up so much land and territorial water without a whimper as happen under Ho and the Vietnamese Communist Party. Ho was willing to remain silence to Chinese’s aggression in order to continue receiving Chinese’s support for Ho’s war against the South Vietnamese. In 1965, when the Americans sent troops to help the South Vietnamese, the PeopleRepublic of China also sent over 400,000 Chinese troops, technicians and advisors to Vietnam at the request of Ho’s government. Chinese troops occupied large are of North Vietnam from the area near the border all the way to Ha Noi. It is unknown how much land was lost while the PLA was stantioned in North Vietnam9.
1)Phạm Văn Sơn, Việt Sử Toàn Thư: Từ Thượng Cổ Đến Hiện Tại (Sai Gon: Tai Thư Lam An Thư Quan So, 1960), pp. 389-392,406-470. Phạm Văn Sơn is one of three prominent Vietnamese historian of the 20th century (the other two being Trần Trọng Kim and Đào Duy Anh). After 1975, Phạm Văn Sơn was sent to the Corrective Labor Re-Education camp where he was routinely abused. Imprisoned in a leper section, Pham contracted the leprosy and died a horrible death at K2 Tân Lập Re-education Camp. The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam later republished Phams’ works posthumously.
2)Bộ Ngoại giao nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam. Vấn Đề Biên Giới Giữa Việt Nam Và Trung Quốc, (Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Sự Thật, March 1979), pp.25.
3)Ibid, pp.30.
4)Ibid, pp.32-33.
5)Ibid, pp. 33-61.
6)Ibid, pp. 43-55.
7)Ibid, pp. 58-68.
8)Lưu Văn Lợi, The Sino-Vietnamese Difference on the Hoàng Sa and Trường Sa Archipelagoes (Hà Nội: Thé̂ giới Publisher, 1996).Đặc Khảo Hoàng Sa và Trường Sa, Tap San Su Dia. Saigon 1974. PRC's declaration over the islands in 1958 Xinhua archives. Far East Economic Review March 16, 1979, pp. 11. Beijing Review August,25 1979, pp.25.
9)Hoàng Văn Hoan, Giọt nước trong biển cả (Nhà xuất bản Tin Việt Nam , 1986), pp.344-345. Nguyễn Thư Hiền, Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày (Santa Ana: Nhà Xuất Bản Văn Nghệ, 1997), pp.178, 229.
The number of 400,000 Chinese troops and advisors came from Nguyễn Thư Hiền in his book “Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày “, Hoàng Văn Hoan gave the number of 300,000 Chinese troops but probably did not include the number of Chinese advisors and technicians in his figure. Both figures are very similar to the figure cited by Professor Qiang Zhai in his book “China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-1975.
Perhaps no other leaders in the history of Vietnam had ever loved children the way that Ho Chi Minh loves his children. At the Start of the Vietnamese Communist revolution in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh has shown a keen interest in the indoctrination and education of Vietnamese children. Ho Chi Minh teachings and collected works became the basis for the indoctrination of children in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
In his letter to the children during the Autumn Festival of 1951, Ho Chi Minh shown his love for children with the following poem:[1].
In his letter to the children during the Autumn Festival of 1951, Ho Chi Minh shown his love for children with the following poem:
“The autumn moon shine as bright as a mirror
Uncle Ho thinks of children as the Uncle gaze at the moon"
Ho Chi Minh states:
"Of course the adults have to fight to save the country
But children will also have to shoulder part of the responsibility
Once the Japs, the French has been expelled
The children will be pampered"
In his poem"Trẻ chăn trâu" [ The water buffalo herding children ] Ho Chi Minh call on his children to contribute to the war:
"Together we fight to expels the Japs,the French
One day we will be honor
Children Salvation* is the club
A group of saviors
An integral part of the Vietminh*
Our people have to save one another
Is there anyone who is not touch ?
Pity the herds-children of Vietnam"
During the 8th meeting of the Vietnamese Communist Politburo on May 1941, Ho ordered Ðức Thanh Nhiệm to create various children combat groups such as the Ðoàn Thanh niên Cứu quốc Hà Quảng [The Youth Salvation Group of Ha Quang], Hội Nhi đồng Cứu quốc [The Children Salvation Club]. The membership of these groups consists of children from age 10 to 16 but in many case children as young as eight was “encourage” to join these organizations. [3].
Ho Chi Minh's Children Guerrilla Group of Đình Bảng
While The Children Salvation Club might sound like the bourgeois “Mickey Mouse Club” or the Boy Scouts, Hội Nhi Đồng Cứu quốc [The Children Salvation Club] does not sing saccharine sweet songs and do silly things like the Capitalist children clubs. Instead, the Socialist children of Vietnam under the tutelage of Ho Chi Minh were trained on useful skills such as how to dig up mines with their bare hands, how to shoot weapons, how to plant and detonate bombs, how to build and place booby traps, how gather intelligent on the enemies and other “progressive” skills.
A 12-Year-Old ARVN Airbornemascot, despite scrutiny from the international press, no evidence exists that the ARVN uses child soldiers. However, there is ample evidence that Uncle Ho and the Vietnamese Communist Party systematically uses children as tools of war.
The history books and children books of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam are full of stories of children taught to hate, murder and and mostly dying for Ho Chi Minh such as eight years old Lê Vãn Tám who pour gasoline on himself and and set himself on fire to destroy a French armory. Dương Văn Nội, one of the first Communist "child heroes" and the first Communist "decease child hero" to be awarded the prestigious Huân Chương Chiến Công Hạng Hai medal. In the battle of Hanoi in 1946, thousands of children were mustered into combat groups to resist the French. During the early days of the war against the French, almost all the battles against the French were fought with the participation of various children combat groups, especially the daring ambush operations against the French forces [4].
Ho's Children Guerrilla Group
During the war to "liberate" the South Vietnamese from the freedom, liberty and democracy that they enjoyed living under the Republic of Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh did not hesitate to send ten of thousands of Thanh Nien Xung Phong [Assault Youth] and Du kích Thiếu Nhi [ Children Guerrilla Group ] to combat his enemy. While children living under the Republic of Viet Nam control area was "force" to go to school to learn boring and headache inducing things such as reading, writing, math, and science. The progressive children under Ho Chi Minh was taught fun and useful things such as how to murder people, how to steal weapons from the Americans, how to dig up mines with their bare hands. These great skills will no doubt prepared the children of Ho Chi Minh for a great and exciting career as hit men, gangsters, drug dealers, serial killers and other profitable careers in the future. As such, these great combat deeds are described glowingly in the book “Lịch sử Đội Thiếu niên Tiền phong Hồ Chí Minh” [History of the Ho Chi Minh Pioneer Children Group”]:
Most particular are the activities of the children and young children who lived near the “Kill Yankee Belt” near large Yankee installation such as the installation at Binh Đức, Mỹ Tho province, Trảng Lớn installation at Tây Ninh province, Bến Cát installation at Thủ Dầu Một, Chu Lai installation at Quảng Nam province, Nước Mặn installation at Quảng Đà province, Aí Tử and the electronic wall at Quảng Trị province. In these areas, children often commit daring deeds such as working as reconnaissance for local cadres and combat units.”
Let us read about the glorious Children Guerrilla Group of Điện Bàn:
“In just one district, district Điện Bàn of the Quảng Nam province, the Children Guerrilla Group of that district has captured 12 rifles during the August month of 1968... At Củ Chi, during April, 1969 the children had captured 23 rifles and 1 machine gun. When the children could not captured or steal weapons from the enemies, they would try to destroy the enemies' weapons.
On March, 1968 four young children while tending their cows, noticed that the Yankee has lots of weapons and ammunition in their outpost, the children tried to steal the weapons but could not since the Yankee security was tight, they could not do it. The children formulate a plan where they would buy a pack of cigarettes and when the Yankees is in deep slumber during their afternoon nap, the children lit the whole pack of cigarettes, sneak into the Yankee armory, throw the lighted cigarettes at the ammunition under the plastic canopy. The hot weather combines with the lighted pack of cigarettes caused the ammunition to explode killing 7 Yankees and destroying the Yankee ammunition.”
Aside from stealing weapons and digging American mines with their bare hands, the children were taught by Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communist Party the fine arts of hate, killing and maiming:
Vietcong's Children Guerrilla Group setting up booby traps
“Not a small number of Southern children [South Vietnamese children living in the Communist control area] has taken up arms and perform combat duties in various Children Guerrilla Group and regular units of the Liberation Forces. Children fought in various battles and campaigns and have achieved outstanding victories. On April 6, 1964, little Hồ Thăng, a minority child who was only 14 years of age, together with his Children Guerrilla Group has shot down a Yankee plan and captured alive Yankee pilot Tom Poen. Hồ Thăng was given the Nation Liberation Front of South Vietnam's Huân chương Chiến công giải phóng medal. Hồ Thăng fought many battles with his Children Guerrilla Group and courageously sacrificing himself by falling in battle.
Vietcong's Children Guerrilla Group
In 1967, little Rít shot down one Yankee fighter jet. Also during 1967, little Hoài of the Bác ái district (Ninh Thuận province), although he was only 11 years old, he wanted to quit school and follow the Guerrilla Group to kill the enemies. However, because of his small statute, the little boy could not handle a weapon, since he was smaller than his riffle. However, when the Yankee planes attack his Guerrilla base, little Hoài who was hiding in the trenches, utilizes his combat training to shoot down one plane during the attack.
Vietcong's Children Guerrilla Group on patrol
The achievement of shooting down the most Yankee planes using rifles by Southern children [Children in the Communist control area of South Vietnam] was held by little Khung of the Tơla (KonTum province). Khung was one of the youngest among the “warriors who destroy planes”. Although he was only twelves years old, Khung established a remarkable record of shooting down Yankee planes. In 1968, during two continuous days of combat, Khung using his K44 rifle shot down one helicopter, one propeller-driven plane and 1 fighter jet. Little Xi of Quảng Ngãi province with his CKC rifle shot down one L19, 1 Yankee helicopter... The achievement of shooting down Yankee planes by Southern Children [ Children in the Communist control area of South Vietnam] is impossible to fathom[5].”
Naturally, only children of the proletariat, the poor and those without party connections has the honor of dying and being maimed for Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communist Party. The children of the party elites, the “red” ruling class was often sent to study in Eastern block countries, so they don't have the opportunities to die young like children from the lower class.
Vietcong's ethnic minority Children Guerrilla Group on their way to the battlefield
Over three decades have passed since the Vietnam War, with ample de-classified information from all the participants, we can clearly see who was right and who was evil. On the one side, we have Ho Chi Minh and his Party, teaching children to hate, to kill, to extract mines and bombs with their bare hands while children in the Republic of Vietnam controlled area were taught how to read, white, taught about math, science, literature. On the one side, Ho Chi Minh and his party murdered 500,000 rich and middle class people, stole their properties, gave some of the properties to the poor and tax the poor to death so that the new “land owners” have to donate their new land to the co-operatives[6]. On the other hand, South Vietnamese president Diem and Thieu used foreign aids and selling bonds to purchased lands from the rich and middle class and gave the land away for free to poor peasants as well as lowering taxes for the poor. Given these examples, which government is the true government of the proletariat ? Which government is truly evil ? I'll give you a hint, it's evil to use children as young as eight years of age as tools of war.
The gravestone of Private Lê Trung Tương born in 1959, drafted into the Vietcong on April 1968 at the age of nine,sacrificed [killed in action] on May 1, 1971 at the age of
twelve
* Hội Nhi Đồng Cứu quốc = The Children Salvation Group
* Việt Minh = Abbreviated from the Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội [League for the Independence of Vietnam] was a liberation movement founded in South China on May 19, 141.
[1] Những bức thư của Bác Hồ gửi các cháu thiếu nhi nhân ngày 1-6, http://www.dongnai.gov.vn/cong-dan/tin_vanhoa-xahoi/sen200605307/view
[2] Mai Bửu Minh, Bác Hồ với thiếu nhi Việt Nam. http://www.baohaugiang.com.vn/detailvn.aspx?item=4058 (May 30, 2008).
[3] Đào Ngọc Dung , Lịch sử Đội Thiếu niên Tiền phong Hồ Chí Minh và phong trào thiếu nhi Việt Nam (Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Thanh Niên ,2004), pp. 47-49.
[4] Ibid, pp. 137, 170.
[5] Ibid, pp. 422-431.
[6] Bùi Tín, “ Nhìn lại cuộc Cải cách ruộng đất: Những bài học còn nóng hổi” November, 11 2006.
