; Whereas, after the Vietnam War, the Communist Party of Vietnam is estimated to have caused the deaths of approximately 430,000 people through executions, deportations, and causing people to flee persecution, many of whom were lost at sea; Whereas the Government of Vietnam continues to suppress the basic human and civil rights of its citizens, including freedom of speech, the press, association, and religion; Whereas human rights activists and bloggers in Vietnam face harassment, intimidation, physical assault, and imprisonment at the hands of the Government of Vietnam; Whereas the deaths of approximately 85,000 people during and after the Laotian Civil War are attributable to the incursions of communist North Vietnam; Whereas the USSR and North Vietnam helped install the communist Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (referred to in this preamble as the LPRP ) as the sole political party of Laos; Whereas the LPRP has been accused of committing genocide against the Hmong people, with up to 100,000 people killed out of a population of 400,000; Whereas the LPRP still restricts many of the civil and political rights of its citizens, including freedom of speech, association, religion, and assembly; Whereas the USSR and North Vietnam supported the Communist Party of Kampuchea (referred to in this preamble as the Khmer Rouge ) in overthrowing the government of the King of Cambodia; Whereas, under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge carried out the Cambodian genocide, which caused the deaths of a ¼ of the population of Cambodia in only 4 years; Whereas the Khmer Rouge tortured and executed as many as 17,000 individuals in the S–21 jail in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Whereas the Killing Fields were sites in Cambodia where many Cambodians were killed and left in mass graves by the Khmer Rouge; Whereas experts estimate that the remains of more than 1,300,000 victims of execution are buried at the Killing Fields in Cambodia, representing only 60 percent of the full death toll of the Cambodian genocide