Looking back on my own coverage for the Sunday Times of the South Vietnamese war effort of 197075. I think I concentrated too easily on the corruption and incompetence of the South Vietnamese and their American allies. was too ignorant of the inhuman Hanoi regime. and far too willing to believe that a victory by the communists would provide a better future. But after the communist victory came the refugees to Thailand and the floods of boat people desperately seeking to escape the Cambodian killing fields and the Vietnamese gulags. Their eloquent testimony should have put paid to all illusions. Mr.
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