Following up on denial
By Matthew Hoy on July 23, 2007
I mentioned a couple of days ago Sen. John Kerry's denial that any "bloodbath" occurred in Southeast Asia after the American abandonment of South Vietnam. I also menitoned an Orange County Register investigation that found at least 165,000 killed in communist Vietnam's "reeducation" camps. Today, James Taranto provides some more details from that Register investigation.
- An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials.
- 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe.
- Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed.
- Prisoners were incarcerated for as long as 17 years, according to the U.S. Department of State, with most terms ranging from three to 10 years.
- At least 150 re-education prisons were built after Saigon fell 26 years ago.
- One in three South Vietnamese families had a relative in a re-education camp.
Of course, none of that ever happened, if you listen to Sen. Kerry.
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I suppose the folks who parrot that line will be pretending to believe it.
Nobody is stupid enough to actually believe it, so they'll be lying.
Lying about mass murder. To make a political point.
Seems that there's a moral issue here, somewhere.
And the thing is, the folks who will be doing it, outside of the pols and msm folks, will be the nice lady next door, your kid's teacher, possibly the preacher at your church, or certainly the head of the deacons.