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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1557)	5/21/2003 1:29:38 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

One would have expected a huge purge of imperial collaberators. Here even you are recognizing this characteristic of communist revolutions. You did see mass killings in Hue during the Tet offensive. Performed by the Viet Cong - native South Vietnamese communists. But the Tet offensive largely wiped out the VC and the war continued with North Vietnamese draftees replacing them. The overthrow of South Vietnam when it came was not a typical revolutionary overthrow but was a conquest by the North Vietnamese army. North Vietnam had gone through its revolutionary period decades before. Still even if South Vietnam's fall was followed by less mass killings than was typical for new communist regimes, this isn't to say this was benign. Only that hundreds of thousands were killed instead of millions. Here is some info from a site which attempts to make estimates of casulties following the Vietnamese communist victory of 1975 (numbers given are the low-medium-high estimates): unnatural rehabilitation camp deaths 26K-95K-232K executions 50K-100K-250K deaths at sea of boat people 100K-400K-1000K hawaii.edu