‘Refugees face death’
(N.Z.PA.-Reuter) SYDNEY. More than a million refugees trapped behind North Vietnamese lines faced; extermination, the executive secretary of an Australian charity, the Rev. Geoffrey Parish, said in Sydney. “People who left North Vietnam early in the war to live in the south have been automatically marked down by the Communists for extermination," Mr Parish said shortly after returning from South Vietnam. Mr Parish, executive secretary of Austcare, a refugee aid organisation, said: “If Saigon falls it will be the biggest blood bath since the Second World War." Mass killing had already begun with the Communist takeover of Da Nang. Mr Parish said. “I was told in Saigon that when the advancing Communist troops took Da Nang they went from; house to house machine-! gunning any person they! found in their path." he said. Mr Parish said his! organisation hoped to raise about Ssm in Australia this month to assist refugees.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33813, 9 April 1975, Page 8
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