The Ashes of War

Are the millions of South Vietnamese people, whose lives were irrevocably changed by the coming and passing of a single major event in their history, the unconditional surrender of their country to its mortal enemies, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong, on April 30, 1975.

The Communists, once in control, completely ignored the articles of the nineteen seventy-three Paris Peace Accords, which ensured democratic freedoms, freedom from reprisal, and the right to self-determination for the people of South Viet Nam. Then the victors set about punishing the vanquished.