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To: DIRTYSECRET
57k lost lives later

I didn't watch it. Did it cover the million (mostly Catholic and Evangelical converts) who were massacred between 1947 and 1954 in N Vietnam?

42 posted on 09/18/2017 11:24:47 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

No mention of a massacre that I recall but it did cover the large number of Catholics & Buddhists who left the North in that time.


49 posted on 09/18/2017 12:54:00 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: spintreebob

From Wikipedia:

In the early 1950s, the Communist government in North Vietnam launched a land reform program, which, according to Steven Rosefielde, was “aimed at exterminating class enemies.” Victims were chosen in an arbitrary manner, following a quota of four to five percent. Torture was used on a wide scale, so much so that by 1954 Ho Chi Minh became concerned, and had it banned. It is estimated that some 50,000 to 172,000 people perished in the campaigns against wealthy farmers and landowners. Rosefielde discusses much higher estimates that range from 200,000 to 900,000, which includes summary executions of National People’s Party members.


50 posted on 09/18/2017 12:56:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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