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Article about the Military Tribunal trial of Trương Đình Dzu
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Original title: "dzu", Keever's title: "'Peace' Candidate Truong Dinh Dzu Sentenced to Five Years of Hard Labor by Military Tribunal." Article draft about the trial and sentencing of former South Vietnamese presidential candidate Trương Đình Dzu. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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dzu 1 (normass/deepe)
SAIGON,
JULY 26-Much to the embarrassment,
if not surprise,
ten a.m.
com
who
pany
of the American officialdom here, the trial of Truong Dinh Du Dau,
ad had ad publicly advocated "talks" with the Viet Cong, began at
before a five-man military tribunal and an understrength
battalion of ca television cameramen and jounrlias journalists reporters.
Dzu, the 51-year-old "peace" candidate who lost the Vietnamese
Presidential election to Nguyen Van Thieu last fall, sat confidently
HE
WAS,
for on the front row of wooden benches beside his pink-robed wife and
became symbolic of the immensely tangled,
if
m
not conflicting, relations between the American and Vietnamese
officialdoms since the Holulu Honolulu Conference ended last week-end.
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Jy nam
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The man-in-the-street Saigonoce did not appear very interested in
the trial, since Dzu is widely regarded in Vietnamese circles as a "corrupt
opportunist," as one explained. But, the repercussions in Saigon may be
quite different--and open to exploitation from Viet Cong pop propagandalats
or the leftists nationalists. But, gu's prot the Vietnamese government's
"protective custody" of Dzu in a Saigon police station and thi today's
trial session court session charging trying him for advocating "talks"
with the National Liberation Front-or the Viet Cong-have drawn criticm
from pressure from the American officialdom, inforo informed sources report,
Bring UN- democr
as well from liberal circles abroad.
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dzu 3
Ironically, the Vietnamese government appears to be applying a
two-fiasted policy: it has recently become much more liberal in its
domestic affairs by granting relatively significant degrees of more freedom
internally, while at the same time using a steel glove to
A
the line where the freedom ends im on the inter highly explosive
issue of its relations with the Viet Cong.
draw
Government sources report
that Prime Minister Tran Van Huong has ordered reviews of many political
prisoners detainees and that they must immediately be either be tried
- AND Hund
REDS HAVE BEEN RELEASED
or s released
rather than allowed to
remain for long periods in government
jails, as was the previous notre notorious practice.
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dzu 4 (normass/deepe)
The courtroom, inside a heavily sentried compound,
waterfront,
was extremely austere
and dilapidated.
on the Saigon
The room was stuffy;
three of the five fans pirouetting from the pester plaster-board ceiling worked.
dimly-lighted; only four of the twelve neon lights were in
And it was
working order.
Six Vietnamese military policement, with M-16 new M-16's
pointed oil ceiling-wards, moved through the room. Then the judge,
entered the froom,, flanked by a captain,
Major Trieu Khac kỳ Huynh,
two lieutenants and one master-sergeant, all of whom took seats in the
the
BENCH.
Then, the charge against Dzu was read:
"activities that weaken
armed forces
the anti-Communist will of the South Vietnamese army and people."
Specifically, that on April 14 and 15, after being releasted from
protective custody, Duz Dzu had told Wenter correspondents of United
Press International and the Times of London he advocated "talks" with the
SAYING # Coalition GOVERNMENT.
ith Them WAS
UNAVO. (C
arr
appropriate
National Liberation Liberation Front, Then on April 29,
judge signed an order for Dzu's dent dotent detention and the next day,,
He
Sent to
the lawyer was temporarily detained at the Police Directorate.
National
On
July 18, Dzu was then sent to Chi Heb Hoa/prison on the outskirts
Sargon on charges or swindle and embezzlement,
Then, on July
BROUG
to
23, these charges were dropped and the next day Dzu was on trial for
the New CHARGE
weakening the anti-Communist spirit of the in South Vietnam.
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The judge, in reading the charge,
reminded Dzu that the
Vietnamese constitution,
the two-house legislature and the President
had outlawed the National Liberation Front, on the grounds it was
in simply a "tool" of the North Vietnamese Communists.
The judge asked
Dzus "Do you admit the North Vietnamese arg
standing
in front of the
judgearrying out aggression
Dzu/replied that was only an hypothesis,
in the South?"
on which the Vietnamese government based its position.
or a theory,
The judge
replied that it was the position of the government and of the elected
a two-house legislature, and hence the position of the Vietnamese people.
Dzu countered that he only proposed "talking" with, not
negotiating with, the Liberation Front. It is a realistic way, said,
to end the war, he said.
Then the pro official prosecutor, also any Vietnamese Army
major, made an emotional speech against coalition governments, recalling
in Vietnam when the Communists made a coalition with the
and later a liquidated the
the 1945 experience i
nationalists,
nationalists.
Communists liquidated the ne
He said Dzu's guilt was similar to that of a young student,
e sentenced eari
PRINTING
False
a Student
iN A
Forleen
this week, f'to five years hard labor/ for publishing.
Pro-Communist articles"
D
NEWS
ND
the
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dzu 6 (normass/deepe)
Then the defense lawyer, wearing a long black robe with fur necktrime
a former social welfare
strode forward. The lawyer was Tran Ngoc Lieng,
minister in the Nguyen Cao Ky government and a long-time friend of Dzu..
At one time Lieng, D and Dzu reported shared a the same law office with
Nguyen Huu Tho, President of the National Liberation Front, and Dzu
once defended Mr. Tho against charges an indictment of helping the
similar to the one feuing Be Lieng was defending Dzu against this
week.
the law
The defense based his argument on five points. First,
specified action must be taken to jeopardize the anti-Communist spirt of
the country, but Dzu's interviews to the Western journalists were merely
expressions of opinion protected by freedom of speech in the Vietnamese
constitution. Second, Dzu had made an official statement to the
Vietnamese police asking why the Vietnamese government advocated talks
with the North Vietnamese regime, which was totally Marxist-Leninist
Communists, while he, Dzu, advocated talks only with the National Liberation
Front, which was part nationalist and part Communist in composition. He
said he proposed to talk only with the nationalist elements in the
National Liberation Front.
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Phan
Third, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, who was recently named to and then fired
from his ministerial post in the present government, had expressed
publicly the same view as Dzu-but Dr. Dan had only bee dismissed from
his job and was not brought to trial. Why was Dr.
one Vietnamese free to
Stativg
express an opinion while another was tire tried for ring the same opinton.
Fourth, Lawyer Lieng said that according to a dispatch in the Christian
Science Monitor (no date or dateline specified), Ambass American
Ambassador Averill Harriman in Paris said, "If the National Liberation
Front decided to lay down their arms then they would be accepted to
participated in South Vietnam's political life." Dzu had made the same
statement before, Lieng argued, adding "for this point we must agree
that wes
Vietnamese are quite intelligent people who could,
on some occasions, predict things accurately."
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Indeed, Lieng argued for his fifth point, President Nguyen
Van Thien had returned from the Honolulu Conference just last week
and pledged Ms himself to ado allowing a "one-man, one-vote"
South
type of election for all the Vietnamese as a solution for the war--but how
GOVERNMENT D'D Not
could the Communists vote if the President did talk with them. So,
AS DZ B
President Thieu had just manim said the same thing in a different
the Dzu's defense rested his case.
way. On this refrain,
The five military officers, serving as a ti the tribunal, left
the room
a nd antored into one hour and fifteen minutes deliberated
Bach cast his decision by secret ballot.
the case.
Then,
the five re-entered;
the major read the verdict: five years
fuel with
of le hard labor in prison without an additional sentence of exile
upon completion of confinement. the Verdict is
gres
At 12:45, Dzu was escorted to a paddy-wagon.
CHANK
Story was
By ReigN PRESS).
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teamily
Covered
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Date
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1968, Jul. 26
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Subject
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Trương, Đình Dzu; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Military courts; Political persecution; Contested elections
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F38
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
