Quê Mẹ 137-138

Table of Contents

• Vietnamese resistance movements for national sovreignty and independence in the 1st & 2nd Centuries AD Trần Phổ Minh
• May 1997 be the year in which we truly come to terms with each other Võ Văn Ái
• Reflections on poetry (excerpts from memoirs sent clandestinely from Vietnam) Quách Tấn
• Japan, Taiwan and the APEC Conference in Manila: VCHR’s international campaigns for human rights and religious freedom Đỗ Kỳ
• Vietnam in 1996: political and economic overview Lý Vũ
• Rediscovering Phan Khoi and the 1956 “Hundred Flowers” literary movement Tạ Trọng Hiệp
• Nguyen Trai and the Ca Bla On Ang Nang Cuc Sutra: study of the Buddhist Sutra’s translation into Nom in the XVth Century (1) Lê Hữu Mục
• Buddhism and Culture Phạm Công Thiện
• The Poet Bui Giang Ký giả Lô Răng
• The little child and the dog Trần Hoài Thư
• Selected Poems Bùi Giáng, Lê Chí, Quách Tấn, Thi Vũ
• SOS Newspeak ! Abbreviations are all the rage in the official press Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• The sad fate of an ancient poem Thích Chánh Lạc
• The birthplace of Cuoi, the Vietnamese Moon Boy Vĩnh Phúc
• Quê Mẹ mourns the passing of Doan Duc Nhan Thi Vũ
• Chinese translation of Thi Vu’s poem “Thich Hue Thau” Đoàn Đức Nhân
• Vietnam revisited (1) Hoàng Xá
• What is the state of religious freedom in Vietnam ? Robert Topmiller
• Press Statements by VCHR & IBIB :
  – At the UN in Geneva, VCHR denounces repression of political prisoners in Z30A Reducation camp
  – Continued arbitrary detention of UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang
  – Unfair trials of dissidents Ha Si Phu, Le Hong Ha and Nguyen Kieng Giang
  – Forced repatriation of Boat People
  – Security Police crush demonstration in Z30A camp
  – 200 Security Police raid Linh Mu Pagoda (Hue)
  – Monks Hai Thinh & Hai Chanh arrested
  – In Dalat, Police arrest 35 monks and nuns, and destroy Long Tho Pagoda
  – Arbitrary arrest is an “administrative matter” in Vietnam (!)
  – Two prominent officials in the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church, resign in protest against Govemment interference in religious affairs
  – Thich Hai Tang is released
  – UBCV monk Thich Hanh Duc writes to SRV Prime Minister to protest state seizure of Sơn Linh Pagoda PTTPGQT, VCHR
• National Convention of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam in the USA is held in California PTTPGQT
• Quê Me’s Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner