Two anti-China activists Nguyen Viet Dung and Do Thanh Van beaten by plainclothes agents in Hanoi on March 14
by Defend the Defenders, March 14, 2017
Vietnam must bring the Gac Ma massacre in 1988 and the Chinese invasion of the country’s six northernmost provinces in 1979 in the student’s textbooks to teach the next generations about the country’s history and its relations with the northern nation, said retired Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc.
Gen. Thuoc made this suggestion in his interview given to the Phap Luat Viet Nam newspaper on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the loss of Gac Ma (Johnson South Reef) in Truong Sa (Spratlys) to China.
On Mar 14, 1988, China’s naval forces killed 64 unarmed Vietnamese construction soldiers on Gac Ma and invaded the reef. Beijing later militarily invaded six other reefs from Vietnam in Truong Sa and in recent years, it turned them into seven artificial islands.
The invasion of Gac Ma was the first Chinese step to illegally occupy Truong Sa.
However, the Gac Ma massacre has not been mentioned in Vietnamese textbooks while the brutal Chinese invasion of the Vietnamese six northernmost provinces was shortly described in historic textbooks.
While netizens have posted numerous articles on social networks about the Gac Ma massacre and the Chinese invasion in 1979, few state-run newspapers cover the news.
Meanwhile, social networks reported that security forces in Hanoi on Mar 14 detained numerous activists who tried to gather in the city’s center to pay tribute to the 64 fallen soldiers on Gac Ma. Authorities also sent plainclothes agents and militia to the private residences of many local activists to prevent them from joining the gathering.
Many anti-China activists have been detained, beaten and imprisoned in trumped-up criminal charges in the past few years.
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March 14, 2017
Vietnam Urged to Bring Gac Ma Massacre to Student Textbooks
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Two anti-China activists Nguyen Viet Dung and Do Thanh Van beaten by plainclothes agents in Hanoi on March 14
by Defend the Defenders, March 14, 2017
Vietnam must bring the Gac Ma massacre in 1988 and the Chinese invasion of the country’s six northernmost provinces in 1979 in the student’s textbooks to teach the next generations about the country’s history and its relations with the northern nation, said retired Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc.
Gen. Thuoc made this suggestion in his interview given to the Phap Luat Viet Nam newspaper on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the loss of Gac Ma (Johnson South Reef) in Truong Sa (Spratlys) to China.
On Mar 14, 1988, China’s naval forces killed 64 unarmed Vietnamese construction soldiers on Gac Ma and invaded the reef. Beijing later militarily invaded six other reefs from Vietnam in Truong Sa and in recent years, it turned them into seven artificial islands.
The invasion of Gac Ma was the first Chinese step to illegally occupy Truong Sa.
However, the Gac Ma massacre has not been mentioned in Vietnamese textbooks while the brutal Chinese invasion of the Vietnamese six northernmost provinces was shortly described in historic textbooks.
While netizens have posted numerous articles on social networks about the Gac Ma massacre and the Chinese invasion in 1979, few state-run newspapers cover the news.
Meanwhile, social networks reported that security forces in Hanoi on Mar 14 detained numerous activists who tried to gather in the city’s center to pay tribute to the 64 fallen soldiers on Gac Ma. Authorities also sent plainclothes agents and militia to the private residences of many local activists to prevent them from joining the gathering.
Many anti-China activists have been detained, beaten and imprisoned in trumped-up criminal charges in the past few years.