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La communauté vietnamienne exilée évoque la disparition de l'aviateur Lý Tống, alias Aigle Noir, son héros anticommuniste surnommé "le James Bond vietnamien".  Nous avions consacré quelques pages sur les actions de subversion de Ly Tong dans notre mémoire de maîtrise et nous l'avions rencontré à Montréal en 1999. Lire le parcours de ce personnage téméraire et haut en couleurs dans les articles ci-après.Hoài Hương, "Lý Tống, ‘James Bond Việt Nam,’ qua đời ở tuổi 73", VOA, 07/04/2019."Lý Tống, người hùng cướp máy bay để chống chủ nghĩa cộng sản, từ trần", RFA Vietnam, 08/09/2019.Phụng Linh Gửi đến BBC từ Nam California, "Lý Tống, phi công Ó Đen của VNCH qua đời", Hai Ngoai Phiem Dam,  06/04/2019. Orange County Register có bài "Ly Tong is a hero, symbol, renegade", và còn nhiều bài khác nữa. Cũng không thiếu người cho Lý Tống là kẻ ngông cuồng, nhưng điều ai cũng đồng ý là không mấy ai quyết lòng theo đuổi lý tưởng chống Cộng đến cùng như ông. "Anh hung Ly Tong qua doi," Thoi Bao The Vietnamese Newspaper, 07/04/2019."Lý Tống ! Anh Là Ai ? Một Thời Oanh Liệt", Tin Hôm Nay, 22/05/2012. Récapitulatif.Ly Tong, South Vietnamese Legend Who Hijacked Planes to Fight Communism,  Dies at 74Ly Tong, a South Vietnamese Air Force veteran who dropped anti-Communist  leaflets over Vietnam from hijacked planes long after the war’s end,  playing out the fantasies of many defeated soldiers of the south, died  on Saturday in San Diego. He was 74. His family said the cause of death was lung disease. A man who never accepted defeat, Mr. Ly Tong considered it his personal  mission to take back his country from the Communists, who have ruled it  since winning the Vietnam War in 1975. “I have the duty to liberate my country!” he exclaimed in an interview  more than 30 years later. “You cannot enjoy yourself when your whole  country is in pain, in torture.” Mr. Ly Tong became a hero to many Vietnamese refugees in 1992, when he  hijacked a commercial airliner after takeoff from Bangkok, ordered the  pilot to fly low over Ho Chi Minh City — known as Saigon, South  Vietnam’s capital, before the Communist victory — and dumped thousands  of leaflets calling for a popular uprising. He then strapped on a parachute and followed the leaflets down to  certain capture. He was released six years later in an amnesty and  returned to the United States, where he had become a citizen after the  war.In 2000, under the guise of taking flying lessons in Thailand, Mr. Ly  Tong made a second trip over Ho Chi Minh City, sending down a new  cascade of leaflets, which he had signed “Global Alliance for the Total  Uprising Against Communists.” He was arrested on his return to Thailand and spent six years in prison  for hijacking. He was not armed, and no one was hurt on either of his  flights. “The only thing that matters is the Communists still control my  country,” he shouted through a double screen of wire mesh during an  interview at Bangkok’s central jail. “I’m a pilot. This is what I can  do.” He timed his second flight to coincide with President Bill Clinton’s  historic visit to Vietnam, the first by an American president since the  end of the war. Soon after Mr. Ly Tong scattered his leaflets, Mr. Clinton was in Hanoi, the capital, where he delivered a very different message: “The history we leave behind is painful and hard. We must not  forget it, but we must not be controlled by it.”As the years passed and a new generation of Vietnamese-Americans  accepted the unsentimental facts of history, the veterans’ fantasies of liberation became relics of that distant war. But at the end of his life, it became clear that the legend of Mr. Ly  Tong — who proved time and again his loyalty to a country that no longer existed — still compelled devotion. As word spread that his health was failing, visitors converged on his  hospital room in San Diego — as many as 200 people on one recent  weekend. Écouter la suite sur : YouTube