Quê Mẹ 139

Table of Contents

• European Parliament Resolution condemns violations of human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam Quốc Nhân
• An Elderly citizen’s Petition to the Government Võ Văn Ái
• Springtime pilgrimage to the Western Lake, in quest of Nguyen Du’s graceful heroine Lê Vân
• Leon Tolstoi’s testament on Compassion Inna Malkhanova
• The President’s secret journey: Ho Chi Minh’s incognito trip to China in 1950 to seek military aid, revealed for the first time by a North Vietnamese journalist (1) Lê Phát
• Press Statements by VCHR & IBIB :
  – VCHR Statements at the UN on persecution of Buddhists, Catholics and Cao Dai
  – campaign to suppress the Buddhist Youth Movement
  – 200 young Buddhists prepared to self-immolate in Vietnam
  – The government ban on Theravada monks’ traditional religious practices
  – US Delegation at the UN condemns Vienam’s repression of Buddhists, Catholics and Protestants
  – Irish Delegation presses Hanoi to cease religious persecution
  – VCHR calls on UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene on behalf of UBCV monk Thich Tri Tuu PTTPGQT, VCHR
• Nguyen Trai and the Ca Bla On Ang Nang Cuc Sutra: study of the Buddhist Sutra’s translation into Nom script in the XVth Century (2) Lê Hữu Mục
• Eminent lawyer and critic Nguyen Manh Tuong dies in Hanoi Võ Văn Ái
• Vietnam revisited (2) Hoàng Xá
• The Convict who never stood trial – manuscript sent clandestinely from Hanoi (2) Trần Thư
• Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner