Viet Activist’s Sentencing an Omen of Worse to Come

In April of 2016, a massive kill of farmed and free-swimming fish in the vicinity of Vietnam’s Vung Ang Industrial Zone, 430 km. south of Hanoi shaped up as a classic conflict between industrialization and the environment as well as a developing test of the new Vietnamese regime’s political acumen.

It is now clear that in the struggle between the environ…