Saturday, November 20, 2021

The Refused Handshake

 Via Lê Bá Dzũng

                            May be an image of 2 people, people standing, military uniform and outdoors 

 Translated from Vietnamese.

The person in the picture on the left is the VNCH Trungle Nguyen Son. And the person on the right hand is the central police station Bui Tin - People's Army reporter - VNDCCH.
Nguyen Son is an officer of the 23rd Division/ League of 2 Army Battalion. In October 1972, Trung Si Nguyen Son was sent to Saigon to study the Intermediate Thai Extreme Education course, then was transferred to the Comprehensive Mathematics of the Ministry of Chuy Trung Ung/ Biet Dong Quan/ QLVNCH in early 1973.
 
February 5, 1973, Lieutenant General Nguyen Son and many other soldiers of Mathematics were appointed to protect the guests at an international press conference in Saigon, the meeting was for the launch of the Military Commission The Four Sided Unity.
 
That time Trung Si Nguyen Son stood on the right side on the entrance to the meeting room. Before hundreds of international fake signatures, Trung Ta Bui Tin stepped in to shake hands with Trung Si Nguyen Son in order to show people the friendship of the communist officer. Unfortunately, Trung Si Nguyen Son straightly refused not to shake hands with Trung Ta Bui Tin with the sentence: "I am on a duty to be handed over, I can't shake hands with him."
 
Trung Ta Bui Tin laughed and clapped Trung Si Nguyen Son's shoulder before going into the meeting room.
 
It was an iconic act for the two parties' attitude towards the Paris Agreement. The VNCH side rejected the election of the establishment of a 3-part federal government according to the Paris State Council - later confirmed through the statement of the establishment of "4 Zero" by the President of VNCH Nguyen Van Thieu.
 
Central Ta Bui Tin will later become the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Journalism - Speech Agency of the Vietnamese Democratic Party. However, September 1990 Bui Tin went to France to the annual conference of the newspaper L'Humanité (Humanité, newspaper of the National Assembly of the National Democratic Party) France), then decided not to go back to the country but appeal to France, with the reason to "fight for freedom, democracy and human rights" in his own way. From then on, he became a criminal offender until he died.
 
Mr. Nguyen Son is 70 years old this year, still alive in Vietnam.
 
~~Truc Duong

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