Who was the bad guys in the Vietnam War?

Question

bad guys as in killing innocent people and War Aggression

And leaving Vietnam in ruins after the war.

Answer 1

The Communists. They murdered (took people out of their homes, stood them up in front of their fellow villagers, beat them, tortured them, raped them, and killed them as an example for everyone else to support them) more then a 100,000 victims during the war. That would be the equivalent of My Lai 4 two hundred and eight five times. The single biggest atrocity of the war, rounding up around 6,000 civilians, murdering them, and hiding their bodies in mass graves during the Communist occupation of Hue in 1968, wasn't even reported by the western media. That was during the war. After they had seized control of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 1975 they murdered almost 5,000,000 more citizens of Southeast Asia to disconsolate their victory in the aftermath of the war. Millions of citizens were imprisoned, displaced, and/or forced to flee for their lives AFTER the Communist takeover. South Vietnam's economy, which had been one of the more robust economies in Southeast Asia before 1975 collapsed, and rice (which had been their major export) had to be imported to feed the people.

Answer 2

The US and its allies blocked the elections that the French had agreed to when they were beaten by the Viet Minh and chased out of VN. The elections were to decide whether the country would remain divided or be united. There might not have been a war if the agreed to elections had taken place.



The American war criminal Lt Calley wasn’t such a nice guy. There were bigger issues on the way the war was waged in some regions of the south.



The Americans were beaten and left, but then used an embargo against the Vietnamese - against both their former allies in the south and the former enemies in the north. Equal opportunity aggressors?



Who were the bad guys? Do a bit of research - don't ask simple questions here.

Answer 3

Perhaps the USA. They interferred with a supposedly civil war and caused more deaths of both soldiers and civilians. For example, the My Lai Massacre committed by US troops led to the mass muderings of up to 500 innocent civilians. After the Tet offensive by the communists, the US simply pulled out of the war, leaving the South vietnamese to face the enemy themselves. The war can be considered an embarrassment for the US for getting 'defeated' by such an ill-equipped and less technologically advanced enemy.

Answer 4

'68 Tet offensive the North had infiltrator soldiers migrate into the south,they were issued plaid shirts to distinguish from others.They invaded the city of Hue in the south rounding up all city officials police,office workers in city or governmental jobs and there families and executed most all of them.This happened throughout the war where they would kill those that can be found and made an example of.It also happened in Saigon as well.They did so to put fear into the south and make US think it to costly to continue.This was the start of of our backing out.We were there to help keep communism from forcing the south to unite the nation from being separate.

Answer 5

The Viet Cong and North Vietnam, they were committing aggression against the people of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).

Answer 6

Jake is right, the Northern Vietnamese, who were communist, were agressing on the Southern Vietnamese, who were not communist. The USA stated earlier they would protect countries from becoming communist to contain it. Vietnam was left in ruins by both sides, they both bombed and fought.

Answer 7

Vietkong

Answer 8

It really depends on what side of the war you were on..

Answer 9

All depends on where you were born

Answer 10

Communists were bad guys, like they are also bad guys in Russia, in Korea, in Cuba and in US.