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Re-education camps (Vietnamese: Trại cải tạo) were prison camps operated by the communist Việt Cộng and Socialist Republic of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War. In these camps, the government imprisoned at least 200,000-300,000 former military officers, government workers and supporters of the former government of South ...
South Vietnam 103 Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam: Shelling of Highway 1: April 24–Sep 28, 1972 Highway 1, between Quảng Trị and Huế, South Vietnam 2800 People's Army of Vietnam: Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard: August 30, 1973 Cai Lậy District, Định Tường province: 32 killed Viet Cong: Re-education camps [8] 1945–1987 ...
The film traces the story of a family's struggle for survival in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, to North Vietnam's communist regime.After her South Vietnamese Army husband Long, is imprisoned in a North Vietnamese re-education camp, Mai, her son Lai, and her mother-in-law escape Vietnam by boat in the hopes of starting a new life in Southern California.
After the North Vietnamese takeover in April 1975, one million or more people were sent to "re-education" camps, often for several years, and the government attempted to destroy private enterprise, especially businesses owned by the Hoa. In September 1978, 1,220 "boat people" left Vietnam on an old ship and landed in Indonesia.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
After the fall of Saigon to North Vietnam's People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the ARVN was dissolved. While some high-ranking officers had fled the country to the United States or elsewhere, thousands of former ARVN officers were sent to re-education camps by the communist government of the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Five ARVN ...
After a community was identified, the VCI would threaten local leadership with reprisals if they refused to cooperate or kidnap local leaders and send them to reeducation camps in North Vietnam. Local leaders who continued to refuse to cooperate or threatened to contact the Saigon government were murdered along with their families. [ 14 ]
French re-education camps, announced in 2016; Internal exile in Greece, prison camps on barren islands for political dissidents by the government of Greece during the 20th century; Re-education camp (North Korea) Samchung re-education camp, a military detention camp in South Korea during the 1980s; Re-education camp (Vietnam), prison camps ...