VietNamNet Bridge – Eight members of Viet Tan, an anti-Vietnam terrorist organisation have been arrested by Vietnamese police. Nearly 7,000 leaflets and some weapons were seized.

On November 16 and 17 police arrested six persons on charges of terrorism. On November 23, customs officers at the HCM City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport detected two Vietnamese Americans, Le Van Phan, 55 and Nguyen Thi Thinh, 54, entering Vietnam with a gun and 13 bullets. They were arrested for illegally transporting and using weapons.

According to security agencies, these people are members of Viet Tan, a terrorist organisation. Vietnamese police will cooperate with these men’s national embassies to identify and judge them under Vietnamese law.

In 1982, Hoang Co Minh, a former Saigon regime general, recruited US cohorts and established the so-called “National United Front for the Freedom of Vietnam”. Also in 1982, Minh formed the Vietnam Reform Party or Viet Tan in Thailand to engage in terrorist activities against Vietnam.

From 1982 to 2007, hundreds of Viet Tan members came to Vietnam to develop its terrorist network. The group established a “National Development Board” in Vietnam, in charge of recruiting and managing members, led by Nguyen Quoc Quan, who used the alias Ly Seng and a counterfeit Cambodian passport.

Quan came to Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia to recruit Vietnamese terrorists and sent them back to Vietnam to perform terrorist activities against the Government. However, all planned attacks were thwarted.

Viet Tan, in its “6^th Congress” held in the US, designed “Going to the East 07” plan, aiming to make public its Vietnam cells and establish hostile political organisations in 2007.

Viet Tan sent members to directly instruct local cells to conduct terrorist activities, including the assassination of high-ranking officials to cause social and political instability.

(Source: VNE)