50,000 Ousted From Vietnam Communist Party in Past 4 Years
Vietnam’s Communist Party has purged about 50,000 members in four years to root out corruption, an official Vietnamese newspaper reported.
“The loss was huge but essential,” the army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan said of the expulsions from December, 1986--when the party began nationwide reforms--to September, 1990.
The article was seen in Bangkok on Wednesday.
Vietnam’s party, which now has nearly 2 million members, has governed the country since the Communists defeated the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April, 1975.
“While life is ‘still hard’ and even worse, many cadres are living a life 10 times as lavish as those in the old days,” the article said.
In certain rural areas, it said, “corruption has become widespread and under-the-counter dealings and authoritarianism have not been checked.”
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