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VIETNAM History / United Vietnam
Vietnamese party propaganda
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According
to international estimates at least one third of the boat people
die during their flight - either because their boats capsize and
sink, or because of insufficient provisions on board. Pirates
pose an additional problem. They capture a refugee vessel,
rob all possessions, rape the women and finally kill all people
on board and sink the boat.
In 1979 alone,
more than 270,000 boat people flee from Vietnam. In the
first six months of that year, the Malaysian Coast Guard
forces more than 40,000 Vietnamese boat people on 267 ships
to leave Malaysian territorial waters and to return to the open
sea, where the refugees, including children, are left to their
fate, which, more often than not, means death.
On December
25, 1978, after a series of transgressions at the Cambodian-Vietnamese
border, Vietnamese armies invade Cambodia. On January 7, 1979,
Vietnamese troops occupy Phnom Penh. A Vietnam-friendly government
is installed, Heng Samrin, a Khmer Rouge guerrilla
who before had fled to Vietnam, is declared president.
The new Cambodian
government is not recognized by Western countries. In 1989
Hanoi recalls the Vietnamese troops from Cambodia.
At its 6th
party congress in 1986, and after a decade-long economic crisis,
the Communist Party of Vietnam decides on a far-reaching program
of economic reforms aiming to introduce a liberal economy.
Since then the economic structures of Vietnam have become more
and more capitalistic, although the Communist Party still remains
the sole political power of the country. Whenever the purchased quantity is the double of a previously doubled quantity, then the price is multiplied by 1.6 or, for quantities above 8 kg, by 1.8. Thus, the levels at which discounts become effective are: 1 kg, 2 kg, 4 kg, 8 kg, 16 kg, 32 kg, and so on.
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