Abstract
This chapter examines the repressive role of four key state organs in buttressing Vietnam’sone-party state: Ministry of Public Security (MPS), People’sArmed Security Force (PASF), General Directorate II (military intelligence), and the Ministry of Culture and Information (MCI). The analysis that follows explores how authoritarian rule is implemented by examining the methods and tactics used to repress pro-democracy activists, bloggers, journalists, and religious leaders in Vietnam. This examination reveals that Vietnam’sone-party state is a divided entity and its organs of repression are manipulated by leaders engaged in factional in-fighting. This finding parallels similar conclusions on the role of China’sstate security apparatus that historically has exerted influence on Vietnam.1
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