When America or USA in involved in a war, right after the war, Hollywood goes into overdrive churning out pro American jingoistic movies, rarely is the other view ever shows. This surprisingly extends even to the literature, there is very little work focusing on the alternative perspective.The alterative perspective is especially fascinating to me with regards to the Vietnam War, and Iraq, both cases when American intervention wasn’t called for. Recently the diary of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram, a North Vietnamese physician, spent four years in South Vietnam during the war treating injured Communist soldiers. She was killed by U.S. force in June 1970, at the age of 27 has been published, and she has gone onto become a minor celebrity in Vietnam.
Bernnon Jones a doctor and social worker who served in Vietnam writes in IHT about the diaries
Her diaries also provide a fresh glimpse at the human dimensions of the Communist fighters - their fears, affections and foibles. It's a depiction that is much at odds with the simplistic caricature painted of them in America at the time as soulless, sadistic "gooks."
I am eagerly looking forward to reading a translated, which is yet to be published.
How the Diaries were found
STAR WARS ON CHENNAI METBLOG
Srivatsan,
"The alterative perspective is especially fascinating to me with regards to the Vietnam War, and Iraq, both cases when American intervention wasn’t called for"
More than being merely "the alternative perspective", its the actual truth.
Here's what journalists [who have been ON THE GROUND in Vietnam, risking their lives] say about it. It's the true picture, far more accurate than the American media coverage [though Seymour is anAmerican journo].
American media watch organization FAIR, writes about the Gulf Of Tonkin incident, and the series of American lies, which started the whole war
John Pilger, on the Vietnam War
Seymour Hersh
Posted by
Bala (Karthik) |
6:57 PM
The diary sounds interesting. Will watch out for its translation. Thanks for the post.
Posted by
Echo/Lavanya |
5:27 PM