chinese ship confronting vietnamese navy ship in south china sea on 27th, june, the Chinese sea survilliance ship kept charging at vietnamese navy boat at high speed and forced it to back off and leave eventually in smoke

in 1988 Spratly Islands Skirmish, three vietnamese navy ships were sunk and 522 vietnamese sailors were killed , 9 were captured .

brutal war, some Vietnamese were killed by sharks according to The associated press.

in 1974 Spratly Islands Skirmish, 947 vietnamese from south Vietnam were killed in war.