Subject:      VI: Protestors jailed in Vietnam

VN: protestors teed off


     HANOI, Oct 12 (Reuter) - Vietnam has jailed a woman and is taking
legal action against several other people following violent clashes
between villagers and police over the construction of a luxury Hanoi
golf course. 

     An October edition of the An Ninh Thu Do Police journal said 
Pham Thi Oanh had been sentenced to 12 months in jail for her 
part in action in March and May against police trying to evict 
villagers from land earmarked for the course. 

     The report, seen by Reuters on Saturday, said another person
had been tried and given a suspended sentence. It added that court
proceedings were being planned against several others. 

     Villagers at the Kim No commune on the the outskirts of Hanoi
told a Reuters journalist earlier this year that one woman had died
and scores of others had been injured in a clash on May 13 between
some 1,000 local people and around 500 police. 

     The woman was said to have drowned after falling into a 
water-hole during violence which erupted when security forces moved
into the area and began tearing rice-plants from the field following a
failed attempt to appropriate the land in March. 

     The police journal report did not mention the death but said
security officials had been injured and illegally held by 
"extremists" who forced them to write confesssions.

     The planned golf course is part of a $177 million project
involving the South Korean Daeha group. Company officials were not
contactable on Saturday but have previously declined to comment on the
case.