I believe Congress is compelled to speak out forcefully against the oppressive. inhumane policies of the Communist Government of Vietnam being imposed on its people and those of neighboring countries at great human cost. I would call special attention to an excellent editorial in the Washington Post of October 12. 1979. which expresses quite accurately the outrage which most Americans feel about this situation. While all Americans are concerned about the deplorable plight of the Indochinese refugees. I would suggest that so far we have been focusing too narrowly on the symptoms rather than the cause of this human tragedy. In the rush to help the refugees. all the wouldbe rescuers in the international community are avoiding the fundamental cause of the refugee exodus itself. It is regrettable. after many nations in Southeast Asia have fallen to the Communists. that our people are only now fully comprehending the human tragedy of Communist oppression. Now. however. it has become painfully evident that hundreds of thousands of human beings in Southeast Asia have been killed since the Communist takeover. and that many thousands more are dying in their desperate attempts to flee the same fate.
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