From: vinsight@netcom.com (Chan T. Vninsight)
Subject: Hanoi Calls For Vigilance
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:15:47 GMT


HANOI CALLS FOR INCREASED VIGILANCE

Excerpt from Hanoi Voice of Vietnam Network on Jan. 27, 1992, article by
Chu Phung titled "It Is Our Regular Duty To Secure Political Stability"

"....Hostile forces have positively exploited our economic difficulties
and exacerbated dissatisfaction among our people. As for some
socioeconomic problems, a country like ours which has suffered many
years of war, cannot resolve all of them overnight. This is also a
painful problem of many other countries in the world, including the
developed ones. They have further instigated the problems of
nationalities and religions. They hope that with this scheme they will
be able to incite the masses against our regime just like they did in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and even at Tiananmen
Square in China.

"The enemy's assault forces have carried out these schemes and
operations, primarily through the mass media, using very reactionary
contents. Their audiovisual facilities have sent huge amounts of
information to our country on a 24-hour basis. If we do not screen out
the information carefully, the inherent poison will on a long-term basis
impregnate the soil and will eventually strengthen its effect. In the
so-called campaigns of "Shifting Fire to the Homeland" and of "Making a
River From Small Streams" alone, the number of reactionary books,
magazines, and documents smuggled into our country, has reached the
figure of a few tonnes. They have even mailed documents through the post
office to home addressed unfamiliar to them, making believe that they
have many supporters. They have even deceitfully published fake issues of
Nhan Dan, Quan Doi Nhan Dan, and Hanoi Moi to carry their deceitful
writings.

"Most of the few million overseas Vietnamese have looked to their
homeland. However, there are also reactionaries in exile who have
established dozens of reactionary organizations and dozens of
reactionary newspapers, and they have also sent ephemeral news like that
of Hoang Co Minh to the homeland.

"Along with those notoriously reactionary political activities, the
enemies have also dumped decadent cultural works into our country,
including books, newspapers, music and video tapes in order to propagate
a lifestyle completely strange to socialism and Vietnam's ethics, human
dignity and culture. Such cultural works have depraved some people,
especially youths, which the enemies have considered a way to erode the
foundation.

"We should also mention the plots and operations to buy off and attract
our scientists and intellectuals in which they pay special attention to
those who have a chance to stay close to high-ranking cadres of our
party and state. They are keen to look for dissatisfied opponents and
those who hold viewpoints contrary to our party and state, whom they
usually claimed as a way to erect a banner and to elect a leader in
order to muster other dissatisfied people so as to carry out the
so-called political degeneration within our regime. These are specific
maneuvers of the peaceful evolution scheme and activities of hostile
forces against our country. They in fact want to overthrow our regime by
these maneuvers. Evidently, we will never forget the lessons learned
form the maneuvers normally used by the enemies to create turmoil,
changes, and riots, and to directly intervene, even by military force,
which might probably occur..."

-- 
Vietnam Insight (vinsight@netcom.com)
Chan Tran, editor