Vinh-The Lam, M.L.S.
Librarian Emeritus
University of Saskatchewan
CANADA
The
Republic of Vietnam (RVN) was declared dead at noon of April 30, 1975. Every South Vietnamese knew that fact. And they also knew
that the RVN lost the war because it had been abandoned by the U.S. For several years, most South Vietnamese
people hated President Richard M. Nixon and National Security Advisor (and
later Secretary of State) Henry A. Kissinger, believing that they had sold out
the RVN and stabbed it in the back with the Paris Accords signed on January 27,
1973. This writing tries to analyze the abandoning of the RVN by the U.S. and
find out who was to blame.
