How many Vietnamese (Vietcong + Vietminh) died in the Vietnam War?

Question

How many Vietnamese (Vietcong + Vietminh) died in the Vietnam War?

Answer 1

It's hard to estimate how many Vietnamese were killed during Vietnan. The North Vietnamese refused to release these numbers (for political reasons). In 1995 they released a report showing the number of Vietnamese killed in combat at 1.1 million and the number of Vietnamese civilians killed at almost 2 million. Making the total number of Vietnamese killed or missing during the Vietnam War at approximately 3 million (if the numbers released are actually accurate). Another 600,000 soldiers were listed as wounded. There are no figures on the number of wounded civilians.

Answer 2

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America did not enter the Vietnam war at the beguining and many argue that we should not have been there at all. It started out as a civil war in, you guessed it, Vietnam between the Vietcong (communist Vietnamese) and the Vietminh. France came to fight against the Vietcong and america helped fund them. It was basically a war against communism. After a while America sent in troops but at that time the US military is not as big as it is now so they started the draft. Basically all men over the age of 18 who were not disabled, in college or needed substatialy in the US were sent to war depending if a "draft monkey" pulled their birthday out of a hat. If they evaded the draft unsuccessfully they faced prison time or getting sent anyway. Some fled the draft by moving to Canada or harming them selves so that they were unfit to serve. The solders who went and fought (involuntarily) were not treated like hero's upon their return but rather as monsters. They were sent to fight a war (which our side lost btw) that they had 1 no place in and 2 did not sign up to be there. When they returned home they were disrespected and dishonored. They did not choose to be there, they were fighting someone else s fight because if they didnt they would die. Luckily now a days out Vietnam vets are more respected. People believe it is a "fluke war" because the us lost. The us government did not even dean it a war but mearly a conflict. One of my friends in my humanities class asked the teacher "is the reason they did not call it a war is because we lost?"

Answer 3

Vietnam War Civilian Casualties

Answer 4

About 750,000 South Vietnamese About 1,000,000 North Vietnamese plus about 3 million civilians

Answer 5

there are figures up to 2,700,000 for North Vietnamese killed in War, and about 450,000 south Vietnamese. but these figures are estimates at best, and pretty ballpark, since they fought a mostly guerrilla war, and the dead where often removed from the field., or not really known or reported by the North Vietnamese.

Answer 6

The small country of Vietnam threw the U.S. invaders out. A great victory for the little guy.

Answer 7

estimated 2 million Vietnamese communists were killed in the war

Answer 8

Probably arround 3 or 4 million/ civilians as well

Answer 9

We'll never know with any good degree of accuracy - but here are the latest estimates:


"South Vietnam
dead: ~250,000
wounded: ~1,169,763
North Vietnam
dead: ~600,000
wounded: ~600,000

Vietnamese civilian dead: 2,000,000–5,100,000*


"Even today the number of those killed, military and civilian, in the period covered (1959–1975) is open to debate and uncertainty. To illustrate the problem, below are three reference works by three or more authors listing casualty figures. What is remarkable about them is that the only ones that seem to match are the ones that must be, at best, approximations. None of the figures include the members of South Vietnamese forces killed in the final campaign. Nor do they include the Royal Lao Armed Forces, thousands of Laotian and Thai irregulars, or Laotian civilians who all perished in that peculiar conflict. They do not include the tens of thousands of Cambodians killed during the civil war or the estimated one and one-half to two million that perished in the genocide that followed Khmer Rouge victory
1. Harry G. Summers, The Vietnam War Almanac. Novato CA: Presidio Press, 1985.
U.S. killed in action, died of wounds, died of other causes, missing and declared dead—57,690. South Vietnamese military killed—243,748. Republic of Korea killed—4,407. Australia and New Zealand (combined)—469. Thailand—351. The Vietnam People's Army and NLF (combined)—666,000. North Vietnamese civilian fatalities—65,000. South Vietnamese civilian dead—300,000.
2. Marc Leepson, ed, Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
U.S. killed in action, etc.—58,159. South Vietnamese military—224,000. Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand—not listed. DRV military—not listed. DRV civilians—65,000. South Vietnamese civilians—300,000.
3. Edward Doyle, Samuel Lipsman, et al, Setting the Stage. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1981.
U.S.—57,605. South Vietnamese military—220,357. Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand—not listed. DRV and NLF deaths—444,000. Combined DRV and RVN civilian deaths—587,000.
A fourth Source, John Rowe's Vietnam: The Australian Experience. Sydney: Time-Life Books Australia, 1987, gives a figure of 496 Australians killed in action or died of wounds.
Documents declassified by the Vietnamese government in 1995, claim that 5.1 million Vietnamese died during the conflict with the United States. [122]"


"Vietnam War Casualties

Estimating the number killed in the conflict is extremely difficult. Official records are hard to find or nonexistent and many of those killed were literally blasted to pieces by bombing. For many years the North Vietnamese suppressed the true number of their casualties for propaganda purposes. It is also difficult to say exactly what counts as a "Vietnam war casualty"; people are still being killed today by unexploded ordinance, particularly cluster bomblets. Environmental effects from chemical agents and the colossal social problems caused by a devastated country with so many dead surely caused many more lives to be shortened. In addition, the Khmer Rouge would probably not have come into power and committed their slaughters without the destabilization of the war, particularly of the American bombing campaigns to 'clear out the sanctuaries' in Cambodia.

The lowest casualty estimates, based on the now-renounced North Vietnamese statements, are around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed. Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. The accuracy of these figures has generally not been challenged.
The Vietnamese list over 200,000 of their own soldiers Missing in Action .. "


"Also on the American "side" were 223,748 South Vietnamese soldiers
killed, as well as 5,282 of other nationalities. (See
http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html for the breakdown)

A total of approximately 300,000 so far...

Vietnamese casualties are far less specific, and they were
deliberately falsified prior to 1995, leading to some of the
confusion. According to the Agence France Presse (French Press Agency)
as reported on http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html , "...the true
civilian casualties of the Vietnam War were 2,000,000 in the north,
and 2,000,000 in the south. Military casualties were 1.1 million
killed and 600,000 wounded in 21 years of war. These figures were
deliberately falsified during the war by the North Vietnamese
Communists to avoid demoralizing the population."

So approximately 5.1 million total Vietnamese casualites.

And a grand total of approximately 5.4 million.

Another reference coroborrating this number is at:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/casualty.html

Answer 10

Not enough.