Memories of Empire: Remembering the Fall of Saigon | Asia-Pacific Research
Despite sharing the same diplomatic table as the United States, and
forging ahead with trade agreements, Vietnam still remembers.
Remembers, that is, those “countless barbarous crimes,” as the country’s
prime minister calls them, committed by the United States during the
long wars of the 1960s and 1970s. On April 30, 1975, Saigon was
stricken by scenes of evacuation and panic. “Our homeland,” explained
Nguyen Tan Dung, “had to undergo extremely serious challenges.”
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