Lam Thanh Lem also does not seem like the most reliable source either He s a verifiable assertion from Liem Vo Nhan Tri at the request of the Hanoi government wrote a book Croissance conomique de la R pubique d mocratique du Vietnam Economic Growth in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Having been given this task the author was allowed to access the documents in the Prime Minister s archives where he found and read a top secret report on the number of communist cadres falsely accused and executed 15 000 Ho Ch Minh in an attempt to hide the truth reduced this number to 10 000 when he addressed an assembly of Party members confessing to having killed a number of innocent victims Of course this number of so called innocent victims would be much greater according to Vo Nhan Tr Vo Nhan Tri s Vietnam s Econ Pol since 1975 discusses this document at some length and clearly states that it refers to the total number of innocent victims executed Never is there even a hint about them being party members Vo Nhan Tri s Croissance conomique de la R pubique d mocratique du Vietnam was published by ditions en langues trang res Hanoi in 1967 the author worked as an economist for and in the DRV during the 1960 s Hanoi would not have subsidized the leaking of damaging classified documents so this volume can not possibly contain the above claim There is a huge difference between 15 000 innocent party members and 15 000 innocent people but Liem does not seem to care enough to check The former claim apparently sounded better to Liem and to his editor Frech conservative ideologue J F Revel So that s one verifiable claim from Liem What of his non verifiable claims I think a dubious tag is warranted and perhaps an eventual replacemnent an analogous claim example Arthur Dommen s refrence to 32 000 executions from a former cadre p 340 sourced to Land Reform Rectification of Errors and Intellectual Dissent in North Viet nam 1954 56 Saigon Embassy to State Airgram A 268 November 21 1973 RG 59 NARA Of course the source is Saigon and this must be clearly stated need to be fair would we trust Hanoi on the topic of human rights violation in the South but at least it s not outlandish