I’ve told this story before at Belmont Club but I’ll repeat it because it’s on topic.

Years ago, I was on a ferry boat from Korfu Island to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. While on the boat, I met a ship’s engineer (a Yugoslav) who had worked on a supertanker travelling through the South China Sea during the boat people crisis. The ship’s engineer told me that the sea was black with people floating on little boats and rafts. He said that his ship’s captain did the right thing and took on board as many people as he could until the entire deck of the supertanker was packed with people. The captain then reset course for Hong Kong. My eye witness told me that as the supertanker passed through the mass of floating rafts and boats, they were capsized and their occupants pitched into the ocean. Unfortunately there was nothing the ship’s captain could do because he had already taken on-board as many as he could carry and needed to get them to Hong Kong as soon as possible.

I’m reminded that the biggest technical problem the Nazis had during the Holocaust was disposing of the bodies. With this other holocaust, the North Vietnamese showed themselves to be smarter than Nazis.