Category: Democratic Voices

  • Vietnam Crony Communists Resist Constitution Backlash

    By Bloomberg News – Apr 8, 2013 12:38 AM ET While filming a documentary about Ho Chi Minh as his compatriots battled U.S. forces in the 1960s, Tran Van Tan observed how the Communist leader’s embrace of a simple lifestyle endeared him to Vietnam’s poor. Five decades later, Tan says the Communist Party’s leaders are…

  • Ho Thi Bich Khuong — democratic voice from Vietnam

    “As long as I breathe, I will keep fighting.” Ho Thi Bich Khuong former victim of labor trafficking, human rights advocate, prisoner of conscience, recipient of the Hellman-Hammett Award Ho Thi Bich Khuong, born in 1967 in Nam Anh, Nam Dan, Nghe An Province, is a human rights advocate victimized by Vietnam’s government. She was…