End To The American War On Vietnam Remembered 50 Years On

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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