The Vietnamese Movie Every American Should See
The diary of Viet Cong physician Dang Thuy Tram has been made into a movie - one everyone should see.
America has no clue about the monumental suffering it caused and continues to cause to the people of Vietnam.
Few Americans realize how their country came to be involved in a war on the Vietnamese people. They don't realize that the US blatantly lied when it claimed that the Vietnamese had attacked a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Nor do they know that the hostilities against Vietnam were carried out only to support war industry profits. Few realize that the U.S. needlessly murdered over 3 million Vietnamese and deliberately contaminated vast parts of the country with dioxin, which continues to cause hundreds of thousands of birth-defects and premature deaths.
Some may have heard about the Phoenix Program in which tens of thousands of civilians were tortured and murdered just because they might not fully support the U.S. agenda. Those who have heard about the program don't realize that many American soldiers were also murdered because they might not fully support US policy or the secret criminal operations that were being conducted under the cover of the war.
Nor do Americans realize that Ho Chi Min, the leader of the Vietnamese struggle for independence, fought for the Allies during WW II against the Japanese in exchange for Vietnamese independence from the brutal French. Almost no Americans know that Ho Chi Min idolized the United States and wanted to implement a democracy. Nor do they know how deeply America betrayed Vietnam when it handed the country back to French as a slave plantation after the war and forced the country to seek help from Russia and China in its continued struggle for independence.
With the release of the movie "Don't Burn" more Americans can see things from the Vietnamese perspective and realize how noble and courageous a people they are and how grave were the American atrocities.
Perhaps some day as a nation we will have the intelligence, courage and honesty to beg for forgiveness from the Vietnamese and can make some attempt to atone for our sins.
Please visit http://calitreview.com/248 for a review of Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
For a review of the movie - http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50556
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The diary of Viet Cong physician Dang Thuy Tram has been made into a movie - one everyone should see.
America has no clue about the monumental suffering it caused and continues to cause to the people of Vietnam.
Few Americans realize how their country came to be involved in a war on the Vietnamese people. They don't realize that the US blatantly lied when it claimed that the Vietnamese had attacked a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Nor do they know that the hostilities against Vietnam were carried out only to support war industry profits. Few realize that the U.S. needlessly murdered over 3 million Vietnamese and deliberately contaminated vast parts of the country with dioxin, which continues to cause hundreds of thousands of birth-defects and premature deaths.
Some may have heard about the Phoenix Program in which tens of thousands of civilians were tortured and murdered just because they might not fully support the U.S. agenda. Those who have heard about the program don't realize that many American soldiers were also murdered because they might not fully support US policy or the secret criminal operations that were being conducted under the cover of the war.
Nor do Americans realize that Ho Chi Min, the leader of the Vietnamese struggle for independence, fought for the Allies during WW II against the Japanese in exchange for Vietnamese independence from the brutal French. Almost no Americans know that Ho Chi Min idolized the United States and wanted to implement a democracy. Nor do they know how deeply America betrayed Vietnam when it handed the country back to French as a slave plantation after the war and forced the country to seek help from Russia and China in its continued struggle for independence.
With the release of the movie "Don't Burn" more Americans can see things from the Vietnamese perspective and realize how noble and courageous a people they are and how grave were the American atrocities.
Perhaps some day as a nation we will have the intelligence, courage and honesty to beg for forgiveness from the Vietnamese and can make some attempt to atone for our sins.
Please visit http://calitreview.com/248 for a review of Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
For a review of the movie - http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50556
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