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Vietnam Courts Microsoft and Vice Versa
wbren writes "Bill Gates and Vietnam's Prime Minister Phan Van Khai have signed two 'memoranda of understanding' regarding Microsoft's presence in Vietnam, according to this AP story. They met Monday at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters for a closed door meeting and a tour of Microsoft's "home of the future". The agreement reached is expected to strengthen Vietnam's IT industry, as well as provide software training for 50,000 of the country's teachers. Khai's visit also triggered protests in Seattle, reminding everyone of Vietnam's human rights record."
No protests in Ho-Chi-Minh-City yet about America's human rights record ?
I don't need a signature.
I should note the picture of the Vietnamese man summarily executing a Vietnamese prisoner is an RVN (US puppet government) official shooting an suspected NLF prisoner, polls show young Americans often think it's the reverse.
The pictures of the dead villagers and child are the My Lai massacre, when US troops walked into a hamlet and massacred everyone
The naked girl running was just napalmed by the US air force
The monk who is burning did that to himself, he is protesting the US puppet government's treatment of Buddhists.
The girl screaming over the dead body is a picture of an American over an American. College students protested Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and the Ohio National Guard shot four students dead (and two students protesting were killed at Jackson state as well).
Then there's other things not pictured, the US bombing of Vietnam dikes, the prison on Con Sen Island (which was as bad, or worse, than the Hanoi Hilton and treatment of John McCain etc. that you always hear about on US TV, but which never gets mentioned), the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, the mining of North Vietnam's harbors, strategic hamlets, the US dropping 500,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia (which probably killed people in the hundreds of thousands) and so on and so forth. It's not pretty...by the way, I'm an American, but I don't support the US"s rich man's wars, poor man 's fights...