I had not the slightest intention to deliberately hurt anyone by posting these lyrics. If I have done that, I'm very sorry.
Many if not all good songs telling a tale are one-sided. I could imagine a great song about the boat people, but I can't imagine that adding verses about the NVA or the boat people for the sake of balance would make anything else but ruin the above song. Just try to imagine any old ballad with added verses à la "now let's hear the story from the other side".
MacColl's song expresses beautifully how many youths in Europe (including me) felt about that war then.

Wolfgang