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Viewing cable 06HOCHIMINHCITY902, NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HOA HAO COMMUNITY

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06HOCHIMINHCITY902 2006-08-14 04:28 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO9259
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH
DE RUEHHM #0902 2260428
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 140428Z AUG 06
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1287
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 1353
RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 0907
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 000902 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
SUBJECT: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HOA HAO COMMUNITY 
 
REF: HCMC 630 AND PREVIOUS 
 
1. (SBU) We met twice in June and July with Le Phuoc Sang, 
Chairman of the Central Executive Council of the Hoa Hao 
Buddhist Church based in Garden Grove, California.  Sang was a 
leader of the Hoa Hao community before 1975 but fled to the U.S. 
before the fall of Saigon.  According to Sang, after being a 
"fierce opponent" of the Communist Party for decades, he decided 
to work for reconciliation and the "stabilization and 
development" of the Hoa Hao community in Vietnam.  Sang said he 
first returned to Vietnam in February 2006 to hold preliminary 
talks with the GVN.  At that time, he was not allowed to travel 
to the Mekong Delta to consult with the Hoa Hao community.  When 
he returned in June, however, he was warmly welcomed by the GVN. 
He was received by then-President Tran Duc Luong and the 
outgoing Chairman of the Fatherland Front Pham The Duyet.  He 
also was allowed to travel to the Mekong. 
 
2. (SBU) Sang said that in his meetings with GVN officials, he 
had proposed three major initiatives: 
 
-- The establishment of a National Institute for Hoa Hao 
Buddhist Studies which would train Hoa Hao clergy.  The 
Institute would be located in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta. 
(Sang was director of the Hoa Hao University in An Giang 
province before 1975.) 
 
-- The creation of a Foundation for Hoa Hao Charities based in 
Vietnam that would coordinate domestic and international 
charities to improve conditions for the Hoa Hao community in 
Vietnam. 
 
-- The opening of a branch of Westland University in Can Tho to 
offer training in a wide range of fields.  According to Sang, 
Westland University was licensed by Washington State in 2004 and 
has a campus in California.  Sang is affiliated with the 
University. 
 
3. (SBU) Sang said that GVN officials supported these ideas.  He 
noted that Can Tho City had offered him 20 hectares of land for 
a Westland University campus and had invited the University's 
administrators to visit the city for further discussion. 
 
4. (SBU)        Sang said that he had told the GVN that he rejected 
the radical approach of Hoa Hao activist Le Quang Liem.  He had 
proposed ideas to resolve conflict between the GVN and the Hoa 
Hao community.  He said he had advised the GVN to restructure 
the GVN-recognized Hoa Hao Executive Council and elect a new 
slate of leaders mutually acceptable to the GVN and the Hoa Hao 
community.  He had pushed the GVN to remove the ban on the Hoa 
Hao community's use the Hoa Hao religious flag, to publish the 
full writings of the Hoa Hao founder, to allow the Hoa Hao to 
commemorate the founder's disappearance day, and to return 
church property expropriated by the GVN.  Sang estimated that 
perhaps five to ten percent of the Hoa Hao community in the 
Mekong Delta supported Liem. 
 
4. (SBU) During one meeting, Sang introduced us to Huynh Van 
Nong, a cousin of the Hoa Hao founder.  He called Nong the 
"legitimate successor" to the founder and a respected member of 
the Hoa Hao community capable of voicing Hoa Hao grievances to 
the GVN in a peaceful way. 
 
5. (SBU) Meanwhile, the Hoa Hao group led by Le Quang Liem 
announced the formation of a provincial representative board in 
An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta.  The group announced that 
it would create a network of provincial representative boards in 
key Hoa Hao centers.  In early July, Liem's group also sent a 
letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung announcing that it was 
planning to hold a ceremony on July 25 to commemorate the first 
death anniversary of Tran Van Ut in Dong Thap Province in the 
Mekong Delta.  (Ut, a follower of Liem, committed suicide via 
self-immolation in September 2005 during a police raid.  Ut was 
involved in an altercation with police in June 2005 during a 
rally organized by Liem.)  According to a reliable contact 
within the Hoa Hao community, many members of the Hoa Hao 
community in Dong Thap attended the family-run ceremony.  Liem 
did not attend and authorities did not intervene. 
 
6. (SBU) Comment:  Liem's faction sharply criticized Sang's 
return to Vietnam as a betrayal of his anti-Communist roots and 
the "true Hoa Hao faith."  Whether or not Sang can emerge as a 
constructive force within the fractured Hoa Hao community 
remains to be seen; the GVN almost certainly remains suspicious 
of his motives.  Some of his proposals for compromise also are 
difficult for the Party to accept.  For example, while Sang's 
call for allowing the Hoa Hao flag to be flown again may have 
resonance for the Hoa Hao, its wartime symbolism would alarm 
Party hardliners.  End Comment. 
 
WINNICK