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Courtesy of Jim Laurie
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After the fall of Saigon, where we witnessed North Vietnamese tanks roll into the city, Communist authorities began first to interview and then to round up soldiers and civilian officials of the old Saigon government. More than 300,000 were interned in “re-education” camps. Some higher ranking officers remained imprisoned for up to 17 years. Hanoi propaganda officials provided visiting foreign reporters in April 1985 a tour of an area near Hue Vietnam where one camp was located. This short video captures the sur-real scene provided to a hundred or so journalists.
