50 Years On, Vietnamese Remember Land Reform Terror


(RFA - 2006.06.08)

BANGKOK -- Vietnam this year marks the 50th anniversary of a little-known political campaign known by the innocuous-sounding name of "land reform," in which hundreds of thousands of people accused of being landlords were summarily executed or tortured and starved in prison. More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show. Former Hanoi government official Nguyen Minh Can, who was part of the campaign to change direction following the terror, said it amounted to "genocide." "The land reform was a massacre of innocent, honest people, and using contemporary terms we must say that it was a genocide triggered by class discrimination," he told RFA's Vietnamese service.


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