Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) only needed 12 days to search for, arrest, and indict nearly all the suspected assailants who allegedly attacked the two government offices of the Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur communes in Dak Lak Province.

In a public announcement published [1] on June 23, the Investigation Security Agency of the Dak Lak Provincial Police officially prosecuted 75 suspects on a charge of “conducting terrorism aimed at opposing the people’s administration” under Article 113 of the Penal Code. These defendants face the maximum sentence of death penalty [2] if convicted.