Days of Rage in Little Saigon; Portrait of Ho Chi Minh Incenses Vietnamese Immigrants

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 5, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

They are gathering by the thousands outside the little shop on Bolsa Avenue, an unlikely mob of middle-aged Vietnamese carrying protest signs and fresh pain from a war that ended long ago.

This city 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles is home to the largest Vietnamese immigrant community in the nation. It is a striving, prosperous place where the American dream is in full bloom. But ever since a Vietnamese merchant draped a communist flag and a portrait of the late Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh on the wall of his Hi Tek Video store, nothing has been the same.

The streets are filled ...

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