Exposing Rise's new trick

At first glance, “Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship” in 2025 seems to be a perfect program with outstanding content such as being able to help individuals who are passionate about social work, have been and are implementing “projects” and “initiatives” to serve the community to receive financial support to be able to maximize their impact on the community…

But in fact, this is just a new trick of Vietnamrise (Rise), a peripheral organization of Viet Tan, an organization listed by the Ministry of Public Security as a terrorist organization. The program was launched by the leaders of Rise with the aim of connecting, attracting, and developing forces among young people and students with potential for future development, in order to carry out a "color revolution", a "street revolution" to overthrow the political regime in Vietnam.

Subject Hoang Tu Duy, leader of "Viet Tan" and members operating Rise.

Previously, around the end of 2024, on the fanpage, Rise announced the program "Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship". To promote and attract a large number of participants, the leaders of Rise simultaneously gave attractive introductions such as: Currently, Rise promotes people's participation through two programs including specialized training courses and movement support programs to accompany the community they are participating in. The program will accompany individuals on their 6-month development journey, through main activities including training, coaching, financial support and community connection for personal initiatives...

The participants also informed about the program's highlights such as personal leadership orientation; financial support, in-depth courses on leadership in civil movements as well as creating opportunities to connect, learn and cooperate with other Fellows, enhance understanding and sympathy for other movements in Vietnam... Among the contents, the highlight is financial support. Accordingly, Fellows have the opportunity to receive financial support of up to 15 million VND to implement their own service and development initiatives.

On the social networking site, Rise also provides instructions on how to apply and the schedule. With such favorable “terms”, some students have signed up to participate. However, after signing up and attending some classes, many people have given up participating because they clearly know the intentions of the subjects.

To understand the nature of the so-called “Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship” program, we must first understand "Rise" and Angelina Trang Huynh.

Previously, to carry out its plot and intention, Viet Tan directed the establishment of a number of peripheral organizations, disguised as subversive organizations in many fields and areas. These organizations thoroughly exploited the names of social, professional, and religious clubs; used the guise of fighting for "democracy", " human rights ", "patriotism", "protecting the Fatherland"..., to incite gatherings, protests, and disrupt security and order.

Typical of these are the peripheral organizations Rise and Voice, which have implemented many plans for sabotage activities. These include using media channels to disseminate articles and images with negative content about the political and social situation in the country; interacting with a number of community groups and social organizations, organizing a number of online training courses, events, programs, and competitions using the cover of "civil society" to propagate, promote, and attract participants, especially young people, students, to increase the influence of the organization such as: training courses "Learning about building social movements", "Communication skills", "Civil society vocational school"; online seminars "Workers' rights", "Leading movements in challenging contexts"; event "Social Movement Festival - SMF"; prize-winning contest "Vietnam Social Debate"; financial support program to implement domestic "civil society" projects and initiatives...

On March 2, 2020, three core members of Viet Tan, including Trinnitry Pham Hong Thuan, Angelina Trang Huynh (Huynh Pham Phuong Trang) and Nguyen Quoc Trinh, publicly resigned from Viet Tan and announced the establishment of the so-called Rise organization with the slogan "Rise: Change within reach" registered as a non-profit environmental organization, established in the US.

Angelina Trang Huynh is the executive director; the advisory team includes Nguyen Manh Hung, former Deputy Head of the BBC Vietnamese Service, currently a VOA contributor; Nguyen Khoa Dieu Quyen (wife of Truc Ho, SBTN spokesperson).

These are the leaders and key figures in Viet Tan, who have committed many acts that violate Vietnam's national security.

The purpose of Rise's program is to connect, attract, and develop forces among young people and students with potential for future development, building a generation of young Vietnamese who understand "civil society" and have sympathy and favor with Rise. In fact, the intention of the subjects is to gather, develop forces, and carry out Rise's sabotage plans to overthrow the political regime in Vietnam.

To carry out the intention, Huynh Pham Phuong Trang directed the media team to increase promotion and expansion for the program "Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship" through Rise's media channels (Facebook, website) and directed a number of media team members to spread information about the program in associations and groups with many members to increase access to the number of young people and students registering to participate in the program.

After its establishment, Rise has provided financial support to a number of domestic subjects to carry out anti-Party and anti-State activities under their direction and guidance. A typical example is the case of Le Quoc Anh (born in 1991, residing in Ward 9, My Tho City, Tien Giang Province).

Regarding the above incident, on November 28, 2023, Tien Giang Provincial Police said that the Security Investigation Agency had issued a special wanted notice for Le Quoc Anh for the act of "Making, storing, disseminating, and propagating information and documents aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" under Article 117 of the 2015 Penal Code. Previously, Le Quoc Anh was hooked up by Rise leaders to participate in online training courses on civil society, gradually luring Le Quoc Anh into joining the organization. After that, Le Quoc Anh regularly contacted and received money to conduct anti-Party and anti-State activities under the direction of Rise leaders.

Regarding the benefits when the subjects complete the program "Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship", the leaders of Rise commit that the selected cases and scholarship recipients will receive in-depth training on the ability to organize and lead social movements; connect, learn, and cooperate with other civil society organizations to improve understanding of the current civil society movement in Vietnam; and receive support of 15 million VND to implement initiatives in practice and develop their own capacity.

The leaders of Rise have directed the "training group" to create an online registration link for those who want to register for the "Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship" program. They require candidates to submit their application (including application form, personal project, personal information) so that Rise can contact them for interviews and review their eligibility. Rise will notify the successful candidates of the results and provide detailed instructions on how to participate in the "Fellowship Rise - Movement Leadership Scholarship" program.

In fact, this is just one of Trang's new tricks. Previously, Trang and the core members of Rise organized many courses with the above content. But then, the participating members discovered the nature. Because in reality, many people who attended did not receive the incentives as advertised.

In some cases, after mistakenly participating in programs and training courses on "civil society" of reactionary and opposition organizations, especially Rise and Viet Tan, they have committed illegal acts that have been handled by Vietnamese law. For example, some cases such as Pham Thi Doan Trang, Le Quoc Anh... Therefore, many cases have given up participating. In order to continue to carry out the motive and purpose of the subjects which is to oppose the regime, the subjects continue to launch new tricks to carry out their intentions...

Source: https://cand.com.vn/Chong-dien-bien-hoa-binh/vach-tran-chieu-tro-moi-cua-rise-i759812/