The Geneva Agreements concerning Viet Nam clearly stipulate:
“Each Party undertakes to refrain from any reprisals or discrimination against persons or organizations on account of their activities during the hostilities and to guarantee their democratic liberties.” (Article 14 (c) of the Agreement on the Cessation of hostilities in Viet Nam).
“The competent representative authorities of the northern and southern zones of Viet Nam, as well as the authorities of Laos and Cambodia, must not permit any individual or collective reprisals against persons who have collaborated in any way with one of the parties during the war, or against members of such persons’ families.” (Point 9 of the Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference).
Thus, with regard to millions of people (as the Vietnamese Resistance was a national resistance in all fields) who are living in south Viet Nam, and who participated in the Resistance war under the leadership of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, whatever their political affiliation or the form of their participation in the Resistance war may be, and in regard to their families as well, the south Viet Nam administration must:
a) Refrain from any reprisals or discrimination (either individual or collective); and
b) Guarantee their democratic liberties.
Nevertheless, it has continually violated the above-mentioned stipulations over the last six years and more.
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