Quê Mẹ 141

Table of Contents

• Flamenco Thi Vũ
• Open letter to the new Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Võ Văn Ái
• Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry rejects Que Me’s appeal for amnesty of religious and political prisoners: “There are absolutely no political prisoners, only criminals, in Vietnam.”
• List of members of the new SRV Government Quê Mẹ
• On the coming Francophone Summit in Hanoi: Appeal for Human Rights in Vietnam FIDH & VCHR
• Hanoi daily “Nhan Dan” denounces FIDH/VCHR appeal for human rights at the Francophone summit
• How to tune in to Radio Free Asia in Vietnam and overseas Quê Mẹ
• Press Statements by VCHR & IBIB :
  – At the UN Human Rights Sub-Commission, VCHR calls for the abrogation of Decree 31/CP on “Administrative Detention”
  – International PEN Congress calls on the Francophone summit to press for the release of imprisoned writers
  – Underground Buddhist human rights movement calls on the UN to prevent a “cultural genocide” in Vietnam PTTPGQT, VCHR
• Confessions from the Official Press: Destruction, devastation, disrepair… Vietnam’s cultural heritage in peril today Nguyễn Huệ Chi
• Nguyen Trai and the Ca Bla On Ang Na Cuc Nang Sutra: study of the Buddhist Sutra’s translation into Nom script in the XVth Century (4) Lê Hữu Mục
• The performing arts and the cinema in relation to social life Thân Trọng Kỳ
• Markus Wolf, “The Man Without a Face” (1) Trần Bình Nam
• 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 (3) Lê Phát
• Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner