Vietnam's most powerful Communist Party leader dies

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 19, 2024 8:09 pm

HANOI, Vietnam — Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said.

During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the Communist Party, thousands of people were arrested on corruption charges and a crackdown on dissidents and activists intensified in the one-party state.

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