Vietnam PM attacks ‘barbarous US crimes’

HO CHI MINH CITY: Vietnam’s premier on Thursday hit out at the “barbarous crimes” of its wartime American foe as the nation marked four decades since the fall of Saigon, an event that delivered a communist victory and a painful blow to US moral and military prestige.

The central streets of southern Ho Chi Minh City—formerly Saigon—were filled with a forest of hammer and sickle flags of the Communist Party, as regiments of goose-stepping soldiers filed past the country’s top leaders.