2017 Hanoi hostage crisis | |||
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Date | April 15–22, 2017 | ||
Location | |||
Caused by | Arrest without warrant of four villagers | ||
Goals | Release of captured representatives | ||
Methods | Hostage taking | ||
Resulted in | Hostages released based on promises which were broken; police raid three years later. | ||
Parties | |||
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Lead figures | |||
• Lê Đình Kình • People's Committee chair Nguyễn Đức Chung | |||
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Casualties | |||
Death(s) | 4 (3 polices + Lê Đình Kinh) | ||
Injuries | 2 | ||
Detained | 38 | ||
Charged | None |
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Thirty-eight Vietnamese police officers were taken hostage by villagers in Đồng Tâm commune, Mỹ Đức district, Hanoi on April 15, 2017, after police arrested four villagers without a warrant in a land dispute.[1][2][3] The hostages included district People's Committee deputy chief Đặng Văn Triều, Deputy Chief of Public Security Nguyễn Thanh Tùng, district party committee propaganda chief Đặng Văn Cảnh, and two journalists.[4][5] Two days after the initial hostage-taking, three detainees were released by the police in Hanoi; one was the main representative of the people in the land dispute, Lê Đình Kình, an 82-year-old man who was injured and hospitalized. In response, the villagers released 15 policemen; three more escaped.[2][6]
On April 22, the villagers released the rest of the hostages after securing concessions from the government.[7] Three years later, one thousand policemen returned to the village and killed its representative.[8]
Disputes over land rights are common in Vietnam, and government agencies reserve the right to seize farmland for construction and investment projects.[9] The crisis was a rare act of defiance in Vietnam, where anger at official corruption and land seizures simmers but is usually met with a forceful response from the police.[10]
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