Joseph Cao: “I will be introducing the Vietnam Human Rights Act very soon.”

The passage of the Vietnam Human Rights Act through the House speaks very loudly of where we are as a government.

What transpired in Vietnam after the Communist takeover could only be described by analogously linking the tragedy of Vietnam to such unconscionable events in human history as the Holocaust, the Killing Fields and the Great Purge.

We ask that this House and this administration will heed the voice of the oppressed around the world, particularly those of the people of Vietnam.

April 30, 1975, was the day of infamy for the millions of Vietnamese whose future was dashed when their freedom was extinguished by the brutal assault on South Vietnam by Communist forces in blatant violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accord.