Thursday, April 30, 2009

34th anniversary of the fall of Saigon

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the NVA and the end of the Indo-China War that had been waging since the end of WW-2. (Giải phóng miền Nam) as they called it.

The North achieved its political goal of reunification at considerable cost and has yet to recover economically from the devastation although some progress has been made. Whilst the US and the Free World military Forces including New Zealand and Australia, had withdrawn some 21 months prior and technically the NVA offensive of 1975 was a "new" war and a breach of the Paris Agreement. MORE . . .

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