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The Article ' Terror Of Little Saigon ' By A.c. Thompson

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The article “Terror in Little Saigon” written by A.C. Thompson, who works with the media ProPublica and Frontline from PBS television system in two years to implement the report about the assassination of journalist of Vietnamese origin in the US. The article is very popular on ProPublica because many Vietnamese want to know the truth from “Terror in Little Saigon”, and they hope that they can get more information from ProPublica as well as comment their thought about “Terror in Little Saigon”. From 1981 to 1990, five journalists Vietnamese Americans in cities across the US have been assassinated, and many others in the community were threatened and terrorism. The journalists were assassinated because they work for the Vietnamese newspaper with circulation of small communities served Vietnam refugees in the United States after the fall of Saigon in late April, 1975. Frontline and ProPublica were investigating, exploring and finding the evidence to give a general point of the murderous event. Many Vietnamese newspapers that have criticized a famous anti-communist organization called the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam that wants to restart the war in Vietnam. As the article provides, “Those U.S. chapters, it seems, had already opened what amounted to a second front, this one in America: Front members used violence to silence Vietnamese Americans who dared question the group’s politics or aims. Calling for normalized relations with the Communist victors

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