don't let those 'vietnamese' animals concern you my chin brother, i personally did not even consider them as human, looking here what those america dogs have made their people suffer but they still happily begged for their master
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I was here in 1974 and people were still afraid to talk to anyone resembling Calley and his murderers. What I had not realised at the time was that the Americans had declared most of Quang Ngai province a 'free fire zone' and that 70 per cent of the villages had been razed. When it was My Lai's turn civilians were being killed at a rate of 50,000 a year. This was known as 'collateral damage'.
In 1970 I went to the US and interviewed seven American soldiers who had taken part in mass murder in Vietnam. None had been charged. Each was adamant that he had been under orders to "kill everyone and everything". "A village was a designated playground," one of them said.
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There had been no North Vietnam and no South Vietnam until the Geneva Conference on Indochina in 1954 had temporarily divided the country to await national elections two years later. The record is clear that the Americans sabotaged these elections, for the good reason that they knew Ho Chi Minh would win hands down. "I have never talked with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs," said President Eisenhower, "who did not believe that 80 per cent of the population would have voted for Ho Chi Minh."
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Indeed, the policy known as Doi Moi, or 'renovation', was conceived as a means of breaking out of the embargo that was put in place by the US following its humiliating defeat in 1975. In classifying Vietnam a 'Category Z' country, Washington imposed sanctions more isolating than even those against Cuba. The World Bank was warned off and humanitarian aid was stopped or obstructed; the new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, persuaded the EU to halt shipments of milk to Vietnamese children. The American objective was to continue the war by other means.
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With an initial capital of Dollars 14 million, he has probably already made Dollars 50 million, and he still has a vacant lot. He told me the story of a senior government official who asked him, on the quiet, to explain to him what a share was.
"Is this a country waiting to be ripped off?" I asked. "Yes," he said. "It's part of the education programme of converting into this wonderful world of capitalism." Vietnam is being raped. The dollar has taken over from the Vietnamese dong, giving the US Reserve Bank effective control of the flow of currency. Japan dominates consumer money lending, Singapore the property market and Taiwan and Korea the sweatshops.
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The World Bank now offered loans conditional on the sacking of tens of thousands of workers from public enterprises and the scrapping of public services that were once the envy of other poor countries. Even during the long years of war, primary care where people lived and worked had raised life expectancy to among the highest in the developing world. More babies had survived birth and their first precarious years than in most Asian countries. Now, under the tutelage of the foreign donor community, the government was forced to abandon support for health services; diseases, such as malaria, dengue and cholera, returned. It was as if the Vietnamese were finally being granted membership of the international community as long as they created a society based on divisions of wealth and poverty and exploited labour, in which social achievements were no longer valued: the kind of foreign-imposed system they had sacrificed so much to escape. It seemed, wrote Gabriel Kolko in his classic work, Anatomy of a War, that the Vietnam war would finally end in "the defeat of all who fought in it - and one of the greatest tragedies of modern history".
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"Take the long view," says the DTI, "use Vietnam's weaknesses selfishly. Vietnam's open door invites you to take advantage of its low standard of living and low wages."
I showed this to Nguyen Xuan Oanh, who until recently was senior economic adviser to the Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet. "We have inexpensive labour," he said. "I don't call it cheap labour. It allows us to be competitive on the international market."
Thereupon he extolled growth rates, "tax holidays", public expenditure cuts and the rest of the IMF deity. What is interesting about this man is that not only is he the architect of Vietnam's "market socialism", as he calls it, but he was deputy prime minister in the old Saigon regime.
I said South Vietnam is remembered as having an economy based on a black market, drugs, prostitution and war profiteering.
"We had a bad administration," he replied.
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But you were number two in that administration."
"I tried very hard to help, but not successfully."
I said that an American businessmen here told me that Vietnam would soon be capitalist.
"I hope so," he replied.
I AM CRYING!