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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (221308)	2/26/2007 11:23:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

After the war, North Vietnam implemented a Soviet style program of forced collectivization and expropriations, and threw everyone connected with the former South Vietnamese government into "reeducation" camps where many thousands died. Conditions in the countryside were also desperate during this period as the army took whatever food there was. There were successive waves of Vietnamese boat people in 1975 - 1977; I've seen estimates from 500,000 and up. No one has the total for those who died at sea from drowning or pirates. That much is common knowledge. Wikipedia doesn't have an article on Vietnam after the war. I did some googling on the boat people and found the CBC archives archives.cbc.ca and this asian-nation.org