Westminster City Council members are condemning leaders of the local nonprofit VietRISE for allegedly revising Vietnamese history, calling it offensive.

It’s happening in a town that’s home to Little Saigon, an ethnic enclave that arose as scores of Vietnamese refugees began arriving after the fall of Saigon in April 1975, with many having served in the South Vietnamese army – a prime target of North Vietnamese communist forces.

The town’s also home to one of the largest Vietnamese populations outside of Vietnam.

The accusation came after VietRISE hosted an event in Garden Grove teaching Vietnam’s history and posted a series of slides on their Instagram page titled “The August Revolution: Vietnam’s Fight For Freedom.”

The slides quoted Ho Chi Minh and referred to the August Revolution

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