A Rural Vietnam Village Becomes a Symbol of Land Rights Conflict

Đông Tâm in perspective

By: David Brown

Đông Tâm is an ancient village on the western edge of the Red River Delta, in the north of Vietnam. Administratively it has been absorbed into greater Hanoi, the national capital, now a city of eight million people. Over the past two years, the village has come to exemplify an untreated wound on Vietnam’s body politic, the conflict over l…