CA SCR85

Proclaims April 2022 as Black April Memorial Month in California to commemorate the Vietnam War and remember lives lost during the conflict.

Recognizes the 47th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and honors the estimated 58,200+ U.S. service members, 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers, 2,000,000 civilians, and 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters who died or went missing.

Honors Vietnamese American refugees who fled Vietnam after 1975, with approximately 500,000 escaping by boat in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, and recognizes over 580,000 Vietnamese residents currently living in California.

References the Vietnamese Boat People Monument in Westminster, Orange County, inaugurated in April 2009 with a statue and memorial inscribed with names of tens of thousands of people lost at sea.

Calls for remembrance of human rights values, freedom, and democracy, and encourages Californians to reflect on the ongoing situation in Vietnam regarding human rights abuses including religious persecution, political suppression, and human trafficking.