Speaker. since the end of the Vietnam war. the Vietnamese Government has admitted to holding over half a million people In reeducation camps inside Vietnam. with estimates pushing that number upward to 2 million people. Most of those sentenced to reeducation were guilty of no crime. They were sent to prison because of their political or religious beliefs. In the 101st Congress. I Introduced House Concurrent Resolution 113. calling upon the Government of Vietnam to release these prisoners without delay. and to negotiate with the United States to allow these prisoners to emigrate. A Senate companion to this resolution was passed unanimously by the House and Senate In June 1989. Fortunately. the Congress was not alone In condemning the Vietnamese Governments imprisonment of these detainees.
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