Vietnamese Anti-Communist Groups Gain Members in U.S.

Vietnamese Anti-Communist Groups Gain Members in U.S.

Vietnamese anti-Communism

Former Southern Vietnamese government and military personnel form separate Anti-Communist groups to oppose the Hanoi Government. The different goals of the groups were to create guerrilla insurgencies in the border regions of Vietnam and to win the people's support to overthrow the new Communist government. The Vietnamese refugees in the United States, while being ant-Communist are skeptical about the power of these groups to cause change.

FOX BUTTERFIELD

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New York Times Company

Jan 7, 1985

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Copyright New York Times Company Jan 7, 1985

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Vietnamese Immigration Anti-Communist

1980s

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"an anti-Communist resistance movement that provoked complaints from the Hanoi Government in late December has been rapidly gaining adherents among Vietnamese refugees in America, though many of them question its effectiveness."

Old Disputes Divide Veterans:
"There are three rival groups of Vietnamese veterans, divided by old issues like differences between northerners and southerners and allegiance to different military cliques."

Former Colonel and founder of the Vietnamese Marines, Pham Van Lieu:
" We don't have to overthrow the Communists by killing. We don't want to kill any more, but we think the Communists have so discredited themselves by corruption, repression and economic mismanagement that we can win by getting the moral support of the people."