01521 TỘI ÁC TẬP ĐOÀN MA ĐẠO GHPGVNTN ĐÔN HẬU - HUYỀN QUANG - QUẢNG ĐỘ

01521  TỘI ÁC TẬP ĐOÀN MA ĐẠO GHPGVNTN ĐÔN HẬU - HUYỀN QUANG - QUẢNG ĐỘ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" Quân đội Việt Nam Cộng Hòa đã tịch thu và tìm thấy tại ngôi chùa nầy, nằm ở trung tâm đông đúc Hoa Kiều  của Sài Gòn,  tất cả các thiết bị cần thiết cho một trung tâm chỉ huy điều động với đầy đủ thiết bị cần thiết của Cộng sản.  Các tù nhân bị bắt giữ và trả khào trong khu vực xung đột của cuộc chiến xung quanh chùa, Westmoreland tiết lộ, đều khai và mô tả chức năng của nó như là trung tâm đầu não cho cuộc tấn công Sài Gòn. Họ khẳng định, ông nói,  bộ chỉ huy nầy đă được thiết lập vài tuần trước của cuộc tấn công và trong khi đó có sự hiện diện của  Trí Quang trong chùa. Một lượng lớn vũ khí Liên Xô cũng đă được lưu trữ trong một tòa nhà phía sau chùa chính trước khi cuộc tấn công."" South Vietnamese troops capturing the pagoda, in the heart of Saigon's crowded Chinese district, found all the equipment needed for a full-scale Communist command post. Prisoners taken in the fighting around the pagoda, Westmoreland revealed, described its function as the nerve center for the Saigon attack. They confirmed,he stated, that the command post was set up several weeks in advance of the offensive and while Tri Quang was in the pagoda. Large amounts of Soviet-made weapons also were stored in a building behind the main temple before the attack."

Inside Washington: Reds' Buddhist ally
Monday Afternoon, March 4, 1968By PAUL SCOTT

WASHINGTON — Thich Tri Quang was arrested again last week with his top lieutenants for assisting the Communist Viet Cong during their vicious Tet holiday assaults against Saigon and other South Vietnamese cities.

In a special report to President Johnson, Westmoreland has urged support of  Thieu's action as a necessary security measure because of Tri Quang's recent anti-govornment activities. The President was informed Tri Quang provided the in-city
bases from which the Viet- Cong had hoped to turn their recent Saigon and Hue attacks into a general popular uprising.

Best evidence of the Communist alliance with Tri Quang, according to Westmoreland, was location of the headquarters of the Viet Cong; attacks on Saigon in An Quang pagoda, long famed as the seat of the militant Buddhist's operations.

South Vietnamese troops capturing the pagoda, in the heart of Saigon's crowded Chinese district, found all the equipment needed for a full-scale Communist command post. Prisoners taken in the fighting around the pagoda, Westmoreland revealed, described its function as the nerve center for the Saigon attack. They confirmed,he stated, that the command post was set up several weeks in advance of the offensive and while Tri Quang was in the pagoda. Large amounts of Soviet-made weapons also were stored in a building behind the main temple before the attack.

South Vietnamese officials said the command post, staffed by a Viet Cong organization with the code-name "d-214, Hanoi unit," was headed by a North Vietnamese major general, a friend ofTri Quang from the time both served with the Viet Minh against the French.

There, as in Saigon, the pagoda of Tri Quang's militant Buddhisms was the central coordinating point of the Viet Cong attacks and their stubborn defense of the city. More than 100 U. S. Marines lost their lives in recapturing the walled city.

Another U, S. intelligence estimate states that Tri Quang helped plan the Buddhist role in the Communist attacks and then went into hiding after he saw the Viet Cong-North Vietnamese offensive was not strong enough to topple the Thieu government.

In preparation for the Tet assault, the report points out, Tri Quang and his militant
Buddhists waged a prolonged drive for popular support.

Tri Quang, for instance, in December and January dispatched a team of speakers on a nationwide tour protesting government policy. The Viet Cong at the same time let it be known they planned an assault on major cities and promised to replace the Thieu government with a coalition including the miiitatnt Buddhists.
Once the new coalition was formed, according to one captured document, Tri Quang was to be sent to the United Nations to demand immediate withdrawal of U. S. forces from South Vietnam.

In discussing the arrest of Tri Quang with congressional leaders recently, the President told the legislative leaders "One of President Kennedy' biggest mistakes in Vietnam was to let U. S. officials get too deeply involved in Tri Quang's efforts to overthrow the late President Diem. We are still paying for that blunder."Tri Quang's supporters in Saigon are now trying a new approach. They are urging . US. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to intervene on behalf of the militant Buddhist by discrectly advising the Thieu government of the possible damage to its image.