Doan Van Toai

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Doan Van Toai (born 1945 in Vietnam) became an antiwar activist, a supporter of the National Liberation Front and vice president of the Saigon Student Union in 1969 and 1970, and author of The Vietnamese Gulag. It was published in 1986 by Simon and Schuster Publishing Group, New York (ISBN 9780671603502 ISBN 0671603507) , 351 pp.

Toai spent time in jails in South Vietnam for antigovernment activities as a student leader. After the invasion of the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he became a senior official of the Ministry of Finance under the Provisional Government. He soon disagreed on purely professional grounds with a superior official and was quickly and unceremoniously tossed into jail, for 28 months. He left Vietnam in May 1978 and like Truong Nhu Tang, went into exile in Paris.

Doan Van Toai is also author of these books : Documents on prisons in Viet-Nam ; A Vietcong Memoir (Mémoires d'un Vietcong, w/ Nhu Tang Truong, David Chanoff); 'Vietnam' A Portrait of its People at War (w/ David Chanoff); PORTRAIT Of The ENEMY The Other Side of Vietnam, Told Through Interviews with North Vietnamese, Former Vietcong and Southern Opposition Leaders (w/ David Chanoff).