April 4, 1991 four Vietnamese men entered a Sacramento Good Guys electronics store and strategically held forty one people hostage. Within the extended time frame that they were holding those hostages, three of those held were shot. Furthermore, during the negotiation process, these Vietnamese men requested not only bulletproof vests in an exchange for hostages, but also obscure items. These items were “…forty 1,000 year old ginseng plants or roots….ten of the ginseng plants cooked [by the police] to make tea and serve them…$4 million and transportation to Thailand to shoot Viet Chong…forty people capacity helicopter…[and] .45 caliber pistol…” (Poland, 2011, p. 158). At the end of the ordeal, it was found out these gentlemen were Hong Kong
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From the early 1950’s to early 1970’s during U.S. military involvement in Laos, Indochina, opium and heroin were flown by “Air America” into many countries, including Vietnam. As a result of CIA’s drug smuggling, Southeast Asia became the source of 70% of the world’s opium and heroin. South Vietnam was completely corrupted by a heroin trade that came from Laos, thanks to the CIA. The Hmong culture in Laos provided 30,000 men for the CIA's secret Laotian army. But in the process, opium production took over Hmong culture. To support the Hmong economy, the CIA's “Air America” transported raw opium out of the Laotian hills to the labs. By mid-1971, Army medical officers estimated that fifteen percent of American GIs were addicted (Stich 142).
On November 3, 2006 the DEA received a crime-stoppers tip that Joelis Jardines’s home was being used to grow cannabis. On December 6, 2006 two DEA agents took a drug dog, Franky, without a warrant to the Jardines home and walked onto the front porch where Franky signaled narcotics. The DEA agents then obtained a warrant based on the evidence that Franky detected drugs on the Jardines
All trade in China was channeled through the city of Canton and was regulated by a group of Chinese merchants known as the “cohong” who imposed irregular taxes. No direct contact between the foreigners and Chinese were allowed. Such limitations and conditions caused dissatisfaction among the foreign merchants, in particular the British, who ...
The Vietnam War and how it has been viewed in history has changed drastically over time. At first, during the early parts of the war the American Public was deceived by the government to think that the Viet Cong were monsters and American troops were there for the greater good and to stop the spread of communism. American Soldiers were portrayed as Heroes fighting for the common good and each was good inside. American technology and weapons were seen as superior to the enemy and the film showed battles where American’s earned victories. However, as the American public began to become aware of what really happened in Vietnam a very different narrative began to take shape. Hamburger Hill represents what America thought of the Vietnam War after
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Captain Earnest Medina was in charge of giving orders to the Charlie Company and in the early evening of March 15th a meeting was called. CPT Medina told the company that the next morning they would be moving into My Lai and attacking Vietcong forces there. He told them that all the civilians would be at the market or would have already been moved out by the time that the soldiers arrived to carry out their planned attack. He said all that would be left in the village would be the Vietcong of the 48th battalion and Vietcong sympathizers. It was never clear what CPT Medina had said to do in the event of coming across civilians. Medina claimed in court that he had told the GI’s not to kill women and children, to us...
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The 1986 during the Vietnam war, the slaughter at My Lai Massacre “is an instance of a class of violent acts that can be described as sanctioned massacres (Kelman, 1973): acts of indiscriminate, ruthless, and often systematic mass violence, carried out by military or paramilitary personnel while engaged in officially
“How many people did Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Leng Sary kill? Tens of thousands? You tell the Cambodians, I the Khmer Rouge, that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won’t let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part but don’t tell them what I said before.”
The political and societal ramifications of Vietnam's Tet Offensive indubitably illustrate the historical oddity of 1968. 1967 had not been a bad year for most Americans. Four years after the profound panic evoked by the assassination of John Kennedy, the general public seemed to be gaining a restored optimism, and even the regularly protested Vietnam War still possessed the semblance of success (Farber and Bailey 34-54). However, three short weeks following the eve of 68, Americans abruptly obtained a radically different outlook. The Tet Offensive, beginning on January 30, 1968, consisted of a series of military incursions during the Vietnam War, coordinated between the National Liberation Front's People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF), or "Viet Cong," and the ...
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"Cambodian Genocide Program: Slideshow of S-21 Prisoner Photographs." Cgp.research.yale.edu. Yale University Cambodian Genocide Program, Web. 17 Dec. 2013. http://cgp.research.yale.edu/cgp/cts/cts_slideshow.jsp
By 1971, the Cultural Revolution in China had ended in failure and conditions in Hong Kong calmed,” Gloria Lannom states, yet it took a while for Hong Kong to rebuild its economic standings because of this fact.