Indochina: Five Years of Communist Rule


 

Publication Date: April 1980

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Gregory T. Markey

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Asia and the Pacific

Type: Report

Coverage: Cambodia Vietnam

Abstract:

April 30 marks the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese. Specifically, it will establish that there was a series of bloodbaths, not primarily in the sense of personal governmental vendettas (which there were), but in the more literal sense of blood made to flow so copiously from wars and governmental social policy that it has nearly drowned the societies of Indochina.