Event: Commemorate the Fall of Saigon

Date and time:  Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 11:30am
Location:  Boston City Hall Plaza at 1 City Hall Sq, Boston, MA 02201-1020
Dress code: Black and white if you can.  We are in mourning while the Vietnamese communists still celebrate as a national “victorious” holiday.

To Vietnamese Americans, April is called “Black April Month” because millions of Vietnamese people have died due to the fall of Saigon since April 1975.  American troops withdrew in 1973 after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords was signed.  South Vietnam was on its own while North communist Vietnam was backed militarily and financially by Chinese communists and Russian communists.  North Communist Vietnam took over South Vietnam by military force on April 30, 1975.  Hundred thousands Vietnamese people fled the country and millions of Vietnamese people both from North and South Vietnam have died in the communist prisons as prisoners of war and while trying to cross borders by boat, on foot through jungles and they are known as “boat people” as a general term.  Countless cases of people were robbed, raped and killed and gone missing till this day and their family have no closing. It is unimaginable for people to comprehend how horrible the persecution and life was for the people who used to serve in the South Vietnam government and all agencies including professors, artists and all of their families too.