A lot of the problems one reads about concerning Vietnam are these squabbles and worse over land rights with the government.
3 police officers killed. Maybe thousands of police officers were at this scene.
Police Attacked First in Vietnam’s Dong Tam Clash, Witness Reports Say
2020-01-16
Vietnam's prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc honors police officers killed in the clash at Dong Tam in a Jan. 16, 2020 ceremony.
State Media
Police attacked first in a deadly clash over a land dispute in Hanoi’s Dong Tam commune on Jan. 9 that claimed the lives of an elderly community leader and three police officers, a new report drawn from multiple witness reports says, contradicting official accounts.
Released on Thursday and circulated to human rights organizations and foreign embassies in Vietnam, the report, published in English and titled “Fighting Over Senh Field: A Report on the Dong Tam Village Attack,†says that villagers fought back only after being assaulted by police in the latest flare-up in years of tensions over construction of a military airport near the capital.
State media reports quoting official statements by the Ministry of Public Security say villagers first attacked police with grenades, petrol bombs, and knives, but witnesses to the clash describe “thousands of police officers†first bursting into the village firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/clash-01162020175741.html
