by lorenzo » Sun 08 May 2005, 10:20:18
As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the Americans by rice farmers and coconut girls in Vietnam, we must begin to ask ourselves the question about war damages.
With the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to pay war damages to the nations it had attacked during WWI. This sum amounted to 132 billion Reichsmarks, which would mean a sum of some US$ 1100 billion today.
Germany has also paid the survivors of the extermination of the jews huge sums of money.
We must now ask the same logic of reparations for the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian victims of the brutal and illegal war of the Americans in South East Asia.
If we know that, on average, holocaust survivors received around US$ 10,000 per capita, and at today's value, Versailles reparations amounted to approximately US$ 1000 per capita (we calculate this as a sum per victim), how much should the US pay the Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians who survived their aggression?
Knowing that the Americans killed around 3 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Laotians, and 500,000 Cambodians (grand total: 3.7 million women, children, babies, old men, rice farming boys and girls), we offer the following poll options:
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