Volume 20, Number 10 · June 14, 1973
Thieu's Prisoners
By Joseph Buttinger
Hostages of War: Saigon's Political Prisoners
by Holmes Brown, by Don Luce
Indochina Mobil Education Project, Washington, D.C., 112 pp., $1.50 (paper)
Rescapés des Bagnes de Saigon: Nous Accusons
by Jean-Pierre Debris, by André Menras
Les Editeurs Français Réunis, 224 pp., 17 F
Not since I started writing about Vietnam in 1955 have I been confronted with a task as urgent and at the same time as complex as the subject of political prisoners in South Vietnam. Both books under review are rich in statistics, case histories, authentic documents, and personal experiences, but they contain by no means all the existing material dealing with the distressing and politically explosive question of what has happened and is still going to happen to the men, women, and children who fill the prisons, detention camps, interrogation centers, and the many local jails in the territories of South Vietnam controlled by the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu. I also have read three brochures on the subject published in Paris (two in French and one in English), and more than a dozen copies of letters and appeals by prominent Vietnamese leaders and humanitarian organizations addressed to the International Commission of Control and Supervision and to the Four Party Joint Military Commission.
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