Reply #27: Depending on what years you use and which sources [View All]

[Thothmes]

you read, the total of Vietnamese casualites during the war years varies widely. In an April 3, 1995 article in Agence France Presse, Vietnameses officals estimate North Vietnames military casualties to be around 1,700,000. Noam Chomsky's Reader from 1987 estimates Vietnames civilian casualties to be around 3,000,000. These figures probably cover from the early 60s through the end of the war in the mid 70s. The exact death toll of the Vietnam war will most probably never be know exactly.