The United States has charged many times that the North Vietnamese are in violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war. Those charges are certainly true. But this forced movement of 300.000 Vietnamese refugees leaves America open to the charge of violating article 49 of the Geneva Convention that prohibits individual or mass forcible transfers. If we expect the North Vietnamese to live up to the Geneva Convention. we must also strictly adhere to the rules of that international treaty. It should be noted. Mr. Speaker. that the movement of 300.000 refugees has already begun. At least 14.000 peasants have already been transfered from South Vietnams northernmcst province 450 miles away from their homes. The American people deserve a full explanation of AIDs policy of forced transfer that appears to be a mere repetition of policies that have failed for years and cost America so much in lives and money.
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