OC: Fall of Saigon, Vietnam's Black April (4/30)

CBC News; Orange County Tribune, 4/16/22; Nguyen, CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Vietnamese are in North America because the USA followed France's colonial adventure in South Asia with a disastrous and illegal war that mired the nation for years (Thuan Le Elston).

Vietnamese refugees aboard US Navy boat evacuating during “Black April,” 1975 (Wiki).

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Black April observed Saturday in OC, California

Will Vietnam refugees ever fit in?

The City of Westminster, Orange County, California, hosts its annual Black April event on Saturday, April 30th, 2022, from 10:00 to 11:30 am at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park, 14199 All American Way.

Members of the public are welcome to attend, and the event includes remarks from elected officials, a moment of silence, and the presentation of a memorial wreath.

American soldiers have fun torturing (waterboarding) enemy "g**k" as CIA trained them to do.

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US had lots of bombs to get rid of for private profit.

April 30th -- known as “Black April,” or Tháng Tı Ğen -- is a day to lament and reflect upon the fall of Saigon and the failed US military intervention in South Vietnam, which took place April 30, 1975.

As many as 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers [with many, many more innocent civilians in Vietnam, Cambodia (that led to the Cambodian genocide), and Laos (Operation Menu), who were all subjected to illegal bombing and other US war crimes] and nearly 60,000 American soldiers died during the U.S. War on Vietnam.

• The American gov't gave us the Vietnamese Holocaust

Vietnam War, 1970: CBS camera rolls as invading platoon comes under fire by those defending their country

(CBS Evening News) In March of 1970, CBS News Correspondent Richard Threlkeld was embedded with a US platoon invading the jungles of Vietnam near Cambodia. The G.I.'s came under fire from North Vietnamese forces as Threlkeld’s crew documented the intense firefight. This original report aired on the “CBS Evening News” on 3/27/70.

Cambodia was nearly destroyed by US bombing

Approved through a resolution of the city council in 2019, Westminster became the first city globally to recognize Black April Memorial Week.

Leading up to the ceremony, the city flies the South Vietnamese flag at half-staff at the Vietnamese-American War Memorial (to honor our dead and ignore the deaths our country caused) at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park from April 23 through April 30.

At its upcoming Wednesday, April 27 meeting, the City Council is expected to proclaim April 30, 2022 as Black April Day in commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

For more details about the event, visit westminster-ca.gov or call the Community Services Department at (714) 895-2860. Source