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Vietnam: Behind the Journalists' Jailings

Our Correspondent
Oct 24, 2008
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The conviction of two senior journalists in Hanoi last week had more to do with tussles within the leadership of the ruling Vietnam Communist Party than anything else. The much-derided show trial of the journalists and two anti-corruption investigators indicates the intensity of the conflict between the party's conservatives and reformists. The loser ap…

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