“Provisional National Government of VN” is a terrorist organisation

“Provisional National Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation

The “Provisional National Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation in accordance with Vietnamese and international law, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam has announced.
“Provisional National Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation ảnh 1The “Provisional National Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation in accordance with Vietnamese and international law, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam has announced (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The “ProvisionalNational Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation in accordance withVietnamese and international law, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnamhas announced.

The ministry’s announcement of that terrorist organisation was posted on itsportal on January 30.

According to the announcement, the “Chinh phuquoc gia Viet Nam lam thoi” (Provisional National Government of Vietnam) was previouslyknown as the “Tan Dan Chu” (New Democracy) organisation. It is headquartered at2807 Anaheim, California 92814, the US, with phone number of 7605233011 andwebsites at chinhphuquocgia.com, cuutuchinhtri.org, phamvanlong.com, and cpqgvnlt.com.

The organisation is led by Dao Minh Quan(Dao Van), a US national in Santa Ana, California, the US. Quan was born onJuly 27, 1952 in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and has proclaimedhimself the Prime Minister of the “Provisional National Government of Vietnam.”

The others include Quach The Hung, born onApril 1, 1948 and residing at 5386 Somerset St, Los Angeles, California 90032,the US; Kelly Trieu

(Trieu Thanh Hoa), a US national born in 1968; and PhamLisa (Pham Anh Dao), born in 1979 and residing at 614 Progressive Way, Denmark,South California 29042, the US.

The “Provisional National Government of Vietnam” was established in the US in1991 by Dao Minh Quan (former Lieutenant of the Sai Gon puppet army), and otherpuppet forces.

After the establishment, Quan and some otherheads of the organisation visited Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong (China)and Southeast Asian nations to recruit forces. The recruited refugees were laterrepatriated in order to conduct terror and sabotage activities in Vietnam.

In 2015, the heads of the “ProvisionalNational Government of Vietnam” instructed underground units in Vietnam todevelop forces and establish “volunteer delegations”, seek venues to set upbases, and purchase weapons to prepare for spontaneous and terror acts.

However, their plots were promptly uncoveredand prevented by the Vietnamese security agencies, with Ha Ngoc Han, Mai XuanNghia, Luong Tuan Vinh and Nguyen Van Hoi arrested. For Mai Xuan Nghia, he fledto Laos and then infiltrated back into Vietnam together with Dao Quang Thuc.The duo made a plan to buy weapons for terror attacks, but they were uncoveredand arrested by competent Vietnamese agencies.

In 2017, the heads of the “ProvisionalNational Government of Vietnam” living outside Vietnam stepped up efforts to expandforces and formed such groups as “Phuong Hoang,” “Mang Xa,” “Biet dong quan,”and “Dai Viet,” aiming to terrorize, sabotage and assassinate officials.

They sent Phan Angel (Phan Thi Dao, a USnational born in 1956) and Nguyen James Han (Nguyen Thanh Han, a US nationalborn in 1967) to Vietnam to provide finance and directly instruct sabotage activities.

Under the instruction of the heads of the “ProvisionalNational Government of Vietnam”, other members living in Vietnam petrol-bombed destroying320 vehicles violating traffic law kept in the warehouse of the Bien Hoa citypolice in the southern province of Dong Nai on April 8, 2017.

They also planted petrol bombs at theparking lot and the entrance gate of the international terminal of Tan Son NhatInternational Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on April 22, 2017. They planned tocarry out other plots to cause explosions at headquarters of several publicagencies and a number of factories. However, their plans were stopped bycompetent Vietnamese agencies.

In April 2017, competent Vietnamese agencieslaunched legal proceedings and detained 15 people who are members of theorganisation on charges of “conducting terrorism against the people’sadministration” in line with Article 84 of Vietnam’s 1999 Penal Code.

In December 2017, the Ho Chi Minh CityPeople’s Court held a trial on the case and sentenced those involved from 4-16years in prison.

According to the announcement, the“Provisional National Government of Vietnam” is a terrorist organisation,therefore, anyone, who participated in propagandizing and inciting others tojoin, sponsor, and receive sponsorship from the organisation, took part in theorganisation’s training courses, and followed the instruction of the organisation,has committed “terrorism” and “terrorist sponsor” and will be treated pursuantto Vietnam’s law.-VNA

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