Government of Free Vietnam
Government of Free Vietnam (GFVN), is a anti-communist organization that was established on January 19, 2003, and is based in the United States.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Chanh is the Prime Minister, Mr. Ngo Trong Anh, former Minister of Transportation and Public Works of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), serves on the advisory council. Mr. Nguyen Huy Dau, serves as Minister of Justice and is the former Judge of the Saigon Superior Court, former Professor at the Saigon University, School of Laws, former Counsel General in New Delhi, India and former Ambassador to Morocco. General Linh Quang Vien serves as Vice Prime Minister, he is a graduate from Republic of Vietnam Army Command and Staff College at Leavenworth, USA and French Staff College in Paris, France.
The organzation agenda is to undertake a regime change in Vietnam by political or military force. They had members arrested in Vietnam and also in Thailand for bomb attacks and suspected preparation of bomb making activities.
They have a secret military base base KC-702 in the jungles of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Their organization consist of over 7,000 members and 75 chapters in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
In October 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Van Duc Vo, a GFVN member accused of planting bombs at the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand.
The Communist Governmnet of Vietnam has asked the United States to use its influence to stop the activities of the Government of Free Vietnam because they consider them a terrorist organization.
External Links
- Government of Free Vietnam
- Inaguration Ceremony of The Government of Free Vietnam (Photos)
- Leadership of the Government of Free Vietnam
- Government of Free Vietnam Publicity and Organizational Materials at UC Irvine, Southeast Asian Archive
- Terror Made in the U.S.A.
- Vietnam Calls O.C. Group Terrorists by Los Angeles Times
- FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY: Despite political constraints, a group of democracy-loving Vietnamese expatriates living in southern California is working to regain political control over their homeland
- Hanoi urges U.S. to punish anti-Vietnam plotters