| | Repression in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
 | | Desbarats' estimates of the level of repression are consistent with my own conversations with Vietnam refugees who came to the West, though of course people who spontaneously discuss such matters are self selected and hostile to communism, and therefore not statistically reliable, but are sufficiently reliable for order of magnitude. |
 | | In addition, and particularly important, in an aidememoire to Amnesty International in 1981, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam specifically rejected the principle of nonretroactivity by claiming that the laws of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam had been applicable to all citizens of South Vietnam from 1945 onward. |
 | | In this perspective, it is quite obvious that highranking members of the Army and civil administration of Vietnam could be considered to have blatantly transgressed the law of the land and therefore deserve severe punishment. |
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