Quê Mẹ 115

Table of Contents

• Democratic Forum, a political programme with a new solution for Vietnam Forum for Democracy
• VCHR denounces wave of arrests in Saigon at the UN Human Rights Commission VCHR
• Chronology of Vietnamese civilization (12) Thượng Đăng
• Bloodshed on Pulau Bidong island Nguyễn Hoàng Nhân
• Vietnamese workers brutalized by police in Bulgaria: three killed, many seriously wounded Bảo Gia
• Vietnamese in Bulgaria appeal to the international community for help
• Statement by VCHR on infamous “Tax for the reconstruction of the Fatherland” deducted from Vietnamese workers’ wages by Hanoi’s Embassies in Eastern Europe and the USSR VCHR
• Advice to Vietnamese guest workers in Eastern Europe VCHR
• News in brief :
  – The false debate over the Party’s political programme
  – 80% of Vietnamese peasants live under the poverty line
  – Millions of children are illiterate
  – Vietnamese suffer malnutrition from birth
  – Vietnam’s first AIDS victim
  – Unemployment in Vietnam
  – Hanoi gives no help to Vietnamese workers in Irak during Gulf war
  – Every day 20 new “corruption affairs rvealed in Vietnam
  – Foreign investment is playing hard to get
  – New laws on private entreprise
  – New laws regarding commercial companies Quê Mẹ
• Comparing Nguyên Khac Viên’s two petitions to the VCP: 1981-1991 Lý Tường
• University Professor, Vietnam specialist Georges Boudarel was political commissar in Viet Minh Death Camp No 113: former French prisoners of war demand trial for crimes against humanity Hoàng Lê
• Peasants revolt against the local authorities in Giang Xa, North Vietnam Anh Phương
• From Bui Tin to Nguyen Khac Vien: what the petitions mean Hoài Nhân
• Bui Tin: cosmetic changes Trần Phúc Châu
• Thoughts on Bui Tin’s interview Phan Anh Xuân
• The nature of communism Vũ Lâm
• My ghost teacher Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• Corpses (short story) Hòa Thanh
• Check and mate! (short story from East Europe) N.N.
• Children’s Page: The perfume of Grape fruit blossom and the chilli tree Lưu Hải Sơn
• Tet Offensive in Hue, 1968 (memoirs) Tôn Thất Hanh
• 40 years of journalism with Nguyén Ang Ca (memoirs) An Khê
• Science page: Quantum mecanics and reality Thường Long Khánh
• Medical page: Heart conditions Đặng Quốc Cơ (D.s.), Nguyễn Đại Bằng (B.s.)