Surviving Communist `Reeducation Camp' Series: REDISCOVERING VIETNAM Series Number: 1/2

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 15, 1994| Author: Robert G. Kaiser | Copyright information

Americans and South Vietnamese foresaw "a bloodbath" if the Communists won the Vietnam War. One calculation publicized by the United States Information Agency in 1970 predicted that 3 million people could lose their lives after a Communist victory.

Nguyen Huu Co was one of the predicted victims. Co was briefly South Vietnam's defense minister in 1965, and was for many years a general in the army - positions that made him a prime candidate for a bloodbath.

Co actually held no important job after 1965, because he and Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam's last president, did not get along. Co ...

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