ON BEHALF OF THE COMMITTEE ON VIETNAM
The 50th
anniversary of the end of the War on Vietnam will be
commemorated in Wellington on Friday, 16 May 2025.
30
April 1975 saw the “fall of Saigon” that brought an end to
this horrendous war.
Former members and supporters of
the Wellington Committee on Vietnam (CoV) and associated
groups such as Release All Vietnamese Prisoners of
Conscience (RAVPOC), the Organisation to Halt Military
Service (OMHS) and Medical Aid for Vietnam have been invited
to the gathering. Younger and current anti-war activists
have also been invited.
The gathering has been called
by former chairs of the Wellington Committee of Vietnam in
the early 1970s, Michael Law and Robert Reid, and will
include an “Extraordinary Special Meeting of the CoV” to
mark the occasion.
The events will be held at the
National Library in Molesworth Street,
Wellington.
From 2.00 pm until 4.30
pm Friday 16 May the Alexander Turnbull
Library will have some of its archived material on
anti-war protests on display (especially from the Rona
Bailey Collection).
At 5.00 pm the
reunion meeting will take place in the Malaga
Pasifika Room of the National Library.
The
events will remember the brave struggle of the Vietnamese
people for independence, the horrific action and atrocities
of the US and allied forces in Vietnam and the protest
activity that took place against the war on Vietnam in New
Zealand in the 1960s and
1970s
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