[DOWNLOAD] "Operation Babylift: An Adoptee's Perspective." by The Humanist # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Operation Babylift: An Adoptee's Perspective.
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 486 KB
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN APRIL 1975, under the manufactured threat of a mass slaughter of infants and children by advancing North Vietnamese forces, Western relief agencies and orphanages in South Vietnam, and finally the U.S. government, pressed into action a daring "rescue" plan dubbed Operation Babylift. Vietnamese children under the jurisdiction of the relief agencies and orphanages--along with any other child who was either handed to them or picked up off the street--were to be sent out of the country and placed with adoptive parents in Western countries. The operation was controversial; aside from the fact that not all the children evacuated were orphans and adoption documentation was often sketchy, the cargo plane that lifted the initial group of evacuees crashed, killing 141 of 149 children on board. Nevertheless, by the time the Vietnam War officially ended on April 30, 1975, approximately three thousand infants and young children had been taken out of Vietnam for the purpose of adoption.