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    Quote Originally Posted by Thepartisan View Post
    I thought those re-education camps where from the south Vietnamese army traitors. And some of those where killed for sure.
    You're quite mistaken here. Reeducation camps were used for a variety of purposes, including the consolidation of power for the northern leadership. That included a "weeding" of VC cadre who might have ideas that were different than the direction given by Hanoi (and there were many of them). And before you tar the SVN as traitors, I suggest you take a look at the history of Vietnam. The north did not have a deadlock on nationalism.

    Now maybe we should get back on topic for the thread....
    Last edited by Steve Blair; 06-04-2007 at 06:14 PM.
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