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North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.

A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon

May 1, 2015Conflict

As Americans and many South Vietnamese rushed to leave Saigon in April 1975, journalist Nayan Chanda stayed to see what would happen after the Communist takeover.

Several dozen Vietnamese demonstrators protest against what they described as human rights violations in the former South Vietnam on April 30, 1998 at city hall in Orlando, Florida.

Forty years after Vietnam, a refugee relives his journey from Saigon to San Francisco

April 17, 2015Conflict

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