We had about 2 months of no violence after the big US pull-out official date. Then, the new & not cohesive Communist regime took over. With a ton of corrupt & inhumane officers put into leadership for awhile. Those new Saigon officials opted to go very heavy handed, starting in May of 1978. They violently targeted Chinese Viet citizens, including my family, at that time. My Grandpa had been working on rebuilding the incense factory in Cholon at the time. He was held up, at gunpoint by Viet Communist cops & beaten up - even after giving them all the cash he had (June 1978). The same kinda thugs targeted my Dad, a leading university human rights activist at the time - beating him up & imprisoning him. When Grandpa & Dad were released, Grandpa started to plot our escape from Vietnam. Grandpa said, if we stay now - They'll kill all of us because we are Teochew & we won't stop being Teochew. We are leaving for freedom from endless wars!

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At end of day, it's like this. We may hate our fucking governments. We will hate you more, if you try to interfere with our hatred of our domestic shitty governments. It is not up to any foreign forces to tell any sovereign nations what to do. You cannot even deal with your domestic social issues & your inhumanity towards your own citizens. Fuck right off, trying to tell sovereign nations how to run anything.

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After the official GTFO US invaders date, there was ongoing disharmony because US puppet militants were still running around Saigon & shooting people, indiscriminately. They were hunted down & imprisoned. People hunted down a lot of leftover US invaders too. It was lawless for awhile. Some people who captured US invaders had built their own domestic prisons of torture for any leftover US personnel they found. They were given same tortures that they enacted upon our citizens. In February of 1978, there was a public event with leftover US invaders brought out & the government gave bamboo whips to every Vietnamese citizen, in Saigon, to hit the enemy. The US invaders left behind by their government were beaten by Vietnamese citizens from 8am-8pm. For a full week. 8 US marines died during those beatings. Angry Vietnamese people wouldn't allow their bodies to be sent home & they ripped them off trucks & burned the bodies on the streets of Saigon.

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Making tea & taking a few deep breaths, before continuing our family's saga of surviving invasion war on Vietnam by US terrorist invaders & how we eventually had to flee our beloved home, in 1978.
We survived that invasion. We then faced more persecution from new Communist government regime because our patriarch family has Chinese roots. My patriarch grandparents had fled China due to domestic classist persecution & we have family members in Chinese prisons as longtime political prisoners.
My family have never been nationalists. They've been humanity over borders people. On both matriarch & patriarch sides. My Mom's family is mixed Indigenous Vietnamese & Teochew because her ancestry comes from ancient times when the official Chinese/Vietnam borders didn't exist & nor did the other borders surrounding Vietnam now.

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