"The 'boat people' were primarily ethnic Chinese Vietnamese. The 'chose to go' motif is rank obscenity you should be ashamed to write,"
I'm sure you have a g'o' boy excuse for why they left
After a war of that sort, the losing side usually does a runner
There were no purges - after over a quarter of a century of war , - 14 years of which were waged by the g'ol' Us of A with their B52s, ther napalm and their Agent Orange (which even wiped out the pilots who dropped the filth) the Vietnamese has neither the time nor energy left to turn on those who lost the war - though it would heve been understandable (not acceptable) if they had - those who could afford to paid to leave, the rest stayed
HOW THE WAR ENDED - if you have an alternative account, feel free to offer it.

Hoew a Yank can suggest atrocities towards the losing side is beyond belief
The Vietnam war was a massive unpunished war crime - unpunished because the perpetrators were too powerful to be brought to book
The worlds most powerful and oppressive country against largely untrained volunteers - brom the bombers with theeir chemical weapons - right through to the GIs in Saigon who payed to see Vietnamese girls fucked by animals
Even back home, the KENT STATE SLAUGHTER of student protestors
All this was compounded byty your threat to BOMB THEM BACK INTO THE STONEAGE

The two warmest visions I have of politics is of the staff of the Saigon Embassy being airlifted from the roof and of Thatcher leaving Downing Street in tears
You and yours should hang your head in shame - you never have and you never will
Jim Carroll