Quê Mẹ 136

Table of Contents

• The tree-top refuge – (Essay) Thi Vũ
• Let’s follow our National lineage, not the Party line Võ Văn Ái
• Heart Failure in the Politburo: Vietnamese Communist Party’s Eighth Congress meets in Hanoi Tạ Hồng
• Irresponsible Policy leads to Fiasco: Increased rice exports – death of the domestic market Gabriel Kolko
• In Vietnam, Buddhist monks lead protest to repression Cameron W. Barr
• Tribute to Hoang Xuan Han, eminent scholar and gentleman Võ Văn Ái
• At UN Human Rights Commission: VCHR denounces “1995: A Black Year for Human Rights in Vietnam” Quốc Nhân
• Poem: From internal exile in Nghia Hanh Thích Huyền Quang
• On the death of an old friend, remembering our years in reeducation camp Ký giả Lô Răng
• Poem: Thich Hue Thau Thi Vũ
• The Convict who never stood trial – manuscript sent clandestinely from Hanoi (1) Trần Thư
• Silently, a rose flies away and vanishes into the Hong Kong skies Phạm Công Thiện
• Tea Tales Vĩnh Phúc
• The History of the World Nguyễn Hiến Lê (G.s.)
• The current situation of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Thích Chánh Lạc
• Poems: Sao ta nỡ – Hồn thiêng Nguyễn Như Không, Thích Viên Lý
• Press Statements by VCHR & IBIB :
  – Gravely ill, UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang demands return to Hoi Phuoc Pagoda
  – Thich Hai Tang faces death threat in jail
  – Thich Quang Do, Hoang Minh Chinh and Do Trung Hieu receive the Hellman/Hammet award for persecuted writers
  – Thich Quang Do transferred from Ba Sao Prison to Camp B.14
  – Due to pressure from the UN, Thich Hai Tang released from solitary confinement at Prison B.14
  – French PEN Club honours Thich Quang Do, Thich Tue Sy, Thich Tri Sieu and Ha Si Phu as Honorary Members: PTTPGQT, VCHR
• 30th April 1996: Vietnamese activist drives excavator through the gates of the Vietnamese Embassy in Paris Quê Mẹ
• Readers’ Forum Hà Trung Ngôn, Nguyễn thị Bình Minh, Nguyễn Văn Cường
• Quê Me’s Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner