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Viewing cable 08HANOI569, VIETNAMESE PRESS AND PUBLIC CONTINUE TO FIRE AWAY ON

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08HANOI569 2008-05-14 10:16 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Hanoi
VZCZCXRO3911
RR RUEHCHI RUEHCN RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHHI #0569/01 1351016
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 141016Z MAY 08
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7830
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH 4723
RUEHZS/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HANOI 000569 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON PHUM PGOV KCOR KPAO SOCI PREL VM
 
SUBJECT: VIETNAMESE PRESS AND PUBLIC CONTINUE TO FIRE AWAY ON 
ARRESTS OF JOURNALISTS 
 
Ref: A) HANOI 563; B) 07 HCMC 1136; C) 07 HANOI 2088; D) 07 HANOI 
1016 
 
HANOI 00000569  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: Widespread criticism continued in the Vietnamese 
press and blogosphere over the arrest of two journalists for their 
reporting on the PMU-18 corruption scandal and high-profile figures 
have offered their support to the journalists. The case is widely 
seen as reflecting power struggles within the Communist Party and 
the Government of Vietnam, and as undercutting the credibility of 
the GVN's stated commitment to fighting corruption.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) On May 14, Vietnamese press continued to run hard-hitting 
editorials criticizing the arrest of Tuoi Tre's Nguyen Van Hai, 
Thanh Nien's Nguyen Viet Chien and their alleged police source in 
connection to 2006 reports on the Project Management Unit Number 18 
(PMU-18) scandal. (Ref. A).  Tuoi Tre's front-page editorial said 
its readers expressed indignation and sent over 2000 letters -- a 
"record number" -- expressing sympathy for Hai. 
 
3. (SBU) For its part, Thanh Nien said its offices were "swamped" 
with phone calls from people calling for the journalists to be 
released and asserted that many National Assembly members, 
Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials, academics and ordinary people 
have said Chien's arrest was "unjust and harmful to the common 
good." 
 
4. (SBU) Thanh Nien ran long exposes from high-level opinion-makers 
who have questioned the arrests.  The Government Inspectorate's Tran 
Van Truyen was quoted as saying that the charges "against these 
reporters are not very clear."  Tran Dinh Trien, head of the Vietnam 
Bank Association's Legal Department, doubted the validity of the 
charges in Thanh Nien and offered to serve as Chien's legal counsel. 
 Many other high-profile figures have come to the defense of the 
journalists and have offered to help win their freedom. 
 
5. (SBU) Huy Duc, a long-time Vietnamese journalist, wrote in his 
blog that the arrests "could easily make the public think that 
people fighting against corruption are being attacked back" but he 
added that some officials "used the newspapers as a means to further 
their own cause" in the investigation or for promotion. 
 
Future "Counter-blows?" 
--------------------- 
 
6. (SBU) In other developments in the case, yesterday the MPS 
charged but did not arrest MPS Major General Pham Xuan Quac in 
connection to the 2006 PMU-18 reports.  A police contact told us 
Quac took direction from "a Politburo faction" in releasing 
information to the journalists on the PMU-18 case.  The MPS unit 
that Quac used to head -- he "retired" from his position in 
December, 2006 -- carries out investigations of major criminal 
cases.  It remains to be seen how this faction will fight back, if 
at all, over Quac's arrest, the police contact added.  The MPS' 
General Security Department, a separate office within the large MPS 
bureaucracy from Quac's own, took the lead in assembling the case 
against Quac. 
 
7. (SBU) Vietnamese Law Association President Pham Quoc Anh, who is 
reputed to be aligned with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, on May 14 
was quoted in Tuoi Tre as saying he advised the Director of the 
Supreme People's Procuracy to handle the case of the reporters 
"carefully."  He also warned that the Party allowing former Vice 
Minister of Transportation Nguyen Viet Tien, who oversaw PMU-18, to 
resume work at the ministry at about the same time it has led the 
charge against the journalists might cause the public to pursue 
"counter-blows." 
 
Comment: When Buffaloes Fight... 
-------------------------------- 
 
8. (SBU) There is a Vietnamese saying that when buffaloes fight, 
insects die.  In this case the arrest of the reporters is widely 
seen as the continuation of the high-level dispute that emerged in 
the PMU-18 scandal.  According to this view, one faction believed to 
be connected to Prime Minister Dung exposed the scandal in an effort 
to weaken current Party Secretary General Manh and Manh's faction is 
now fighting back. 
 
9. (SBU) In this struggle the press has not been a disinterested 
party.  Indeed various bloggers have accused Thanh Nien 
Editor-in-Chief Khe of only allowing his reporters to investigate 
certain individuals.  While no one has accused Thanh Nien of falsely 
accusing people, they have accused the paper of being selective in 
its accusations.  Late last fall, for example, bloggers reported 
that Khe had stopped the publication of articles linking HCMC Party 
Secretary Le Thanh Hai to corrupt land deals.  Tuoi Tre, which is 
regarded as more independent than Thanh Nien, ran the articles about 
Hai's links to dubious land deals, resulting in reprimands for both 
the editors and reporters. 
 
HANOI 00000569  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
 
10. (SBU) This dispute continues with the results far from clear. 
What is clear is that the ham-handed manipulation of the press in 
this case has raised public concern about the GVN's commitment to 
fighting corruption. 
 
11. (SBU) This cable was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City. 
 
MICHALAK