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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1995)
Vietnamese celebrate anniversary of war’s end WOULD HOC IH MINH CITV Vietnam (AP) 1 wenty years ago. ( nmmumst tankt rolled down a broad >v«nn« and smashed through the gates of the South Viet names# presidential paUu* to sei/e power and reunite the country On Sunday, mow than 10.000 soldiery, students and « hildrrm paraded down the vime broad. leafy boulevard, carrying flowers and balloons and posing for pictures with their former enemies Americans to celebrate the anniversary of the war’s end. No rts rilninatioie. were heard against the ! ’nited Slates with w hich Vietnam now wants diplomatic and trade tie-. Mayor I nning Ian Sang opened the i erenuuiH*s by pr os ing the patriotism that led so mam to their death hut nev er even mentioned the United States North Vietnam seized power from the last remaining officials of the l' S allied gov eminent on April it), t1 c' a ending a war that cost more than t million lives Most Americans had fled the city only hours earlier in a des perate helii opter evacuation On Sunday Vietnamese si rambled to have their pu tun*s taken with Amerii an journalists and tourists, .md once past the reviewing stand soldiers flashed pe n e signs and thumbs up at an Amerii an veteran with a camera "It was like they Were happy just to see me -.aid left edrick of Tal w Fla., who had part of his right legbloyvn tiyvav in Iftttft bv a mine I look at it detai bed. a-, a i elehratum ol tliei: independent e I low i mild I hold a grudge?" JJ Ms sole wish is to keep the peace in this land I'm so afraid that one das mv son and daughter wilt have to fight a *sar again I would do anything to present that The friendliness is mure than just official nolics lu many Vietnamese. A merit an* • tHtiing lint k represent th© return of eorntnen e and tourism and revival of normal ties with the West after years of relative isolation Behind the smiles however. Vietnamese emotions run deep about a war that set brother against brother l his i eiobration is for the winners said a former southern army officer surnamed "I ran, one of man\ still angry over tin* punishment meted out to them by the vie torious North after Tven some (Communists question whetht*r their lead ers threw away lives no«*dlesHly in open attm kx against tin* mighty I -s> military mm bine sill h as the lUfgt l et offensive A f.«a< tier burst into tears when asked about her memories of the war. explaining that maiu relatives fought in the war and not all t nine bat k In like in the United Status whew the war has been openly and hotly debated, the Vietnamese have never - NGUYEN VAN XICM A Coevnun*st guentia duno$ wst been allowed such i alharsis Hut across the sp<s tnim of political v iewv Vietnamese young ami old wcm emphatii m agreement that they nm or want uoothiT war Never never «itl Tran. >t No urns dares to say that terrible word " Nguyen \ ui Xii h, fit). used to sot tmohy traps lor Amor a an soldier-, as a (ntmminist guerrilla Mv soli- wash is to keep tin- jnsii i> in this land," he said Tin so afraid that one das ms son and daughter will have to light a war again I w ould do anything to prevent that Mayor Sang s spits h emphasized the ui hiovenionts ot peai espis tally the new hurst of is onouiii development in Ho (‘.hi Miuh C dtv i ailed Saigon before to'. Viol mini's w onomv slagnated for the first decade after remit Hi alum, hut free market reforms sira e the late 1'tttOs have brought marked new prosperity That was redo* tml m die lav ishness ot the anniversary < elebralions, which residents said were the biggest and most lighthearted ever Although hundreds of soldiers and militia man bed in tin- parade, there were no tanks or other armaments, and most of the man hers were < ivibans who waved tiny |ia|Mir Vietnamese flags flowers or balloons Most .-I the .its ■ V million residents i mild only watch the parade on television \s is i ommoii for sm h events in Vietnam the parade route streti hed only three long hliM k-. and tlie sidelines were t ompletely tilled with par ticipants awaiting their turn to march. Survivors, rescuers solemnly remember liberation of Dachau 1)A< HAl . Germany (AP) On a killim; giound here N.i/.i Ss men murdered inmntes lor 12 veers, survivors and theirGl res inters solemnly marked the Midi anniversary Sunday of the lib ••ration of Nazi Germany's first concentration camp During prayer services and speeches in a steady ram. they said fascism's • rimes must nev er be repeated its victims never forgotten. "Never again fascism, never again war, never again Dachau.' said Max Mannhriiner, a 7a-year old ( Ve< h-horn lew who survived the camp. Over 30.000 inmates died here murdered, worked to death or simply allowed to succumb to disease When 1' S Army units liberated the camp, they found railcars full of corpses and bod ies stacked like cord wood out side the crematorium Us-ause the SS had run out of coal to burn them. Some 2,000 people from at least U'> countries survivors and their families returned for the half century anniversary along with ft*) t! S veterans and their family members They wen* hosted bv the Havanan state gov eminent and activists, who fielieve in keeping alive the mem ory of wartime atrocities Sheltering themselves with umbrellas, a column of survivors walked past uatchtowers and now-vacant plots where filthy barrai ks had stood The procession moved past sites where guard dogs ripped prisoners apart and past the moat surrounding the t amp where nth ers were shut dead The survivors went to the cre matorium. where SS guards hanged prisoners from hooks and then threw them into the ovens The head of Germany's Jewish commumtv, Ignat/ Buhls, thanked the American lilieroiors of Dachau Among the c amp's survivors was the woman who would Ix’t utile Ins wife We bitterly resent those whose arrogance imposed their evil on humanity, said John Mi Govern nt I'olrdo. Ohio. pres ident ot die -t'2m! Rainbow Dive sion Veterans' Association. The veterans group, he added, dis tinguished clearly between the N,i/.i war criminals anil IihI.iv s dentin r.itn Germany If is only by being aware of past »t\< esses and usurpation of individual rights, vividly demon strated by 12 years of twrfwrisin at Dachau, that the ever present throats to your own liberty i an lie thwarted," Mt Govern said Bavarian stole Gov, Kdmund S tot her told the survivors and sev eral thousand (airmans.' I ashameil that the » runes against those people wore jnTjkitrated by and in the name of Germans ” Adolf Hitler's political oppo nerits were the first to !*• mart-had through Dat haii s gates on Mart h 22. t‘i t 1, a few weeks after he came to power They were fol lowed by i lergvmen, the handi topped. homosexuals Jews. 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