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Somewhere along the Thailand border, we arrived, lived and anguished in one of those refugees camps...We existed among many thousands other Cambodian refugees, in a Vietnamese refugee camp among other huge refugee camps, like a tiny island in the vast archipelago, a floating debris in a sea of inhumanity. There we lived, prayed, and survived probably one of the harshest time in our lives.

These are only the pictures in our possession, and our stories. If you stumble across this blog site, please post any pictures, stories for our children to understand how their parents escaped, have lived, and are building a life as they have today....

Send stories and pictures to hungfng2.vnlr@blogger.com and they will be posted here for all to see.

Transit Camps

The refugees at the border camps eventually got interviewed, accepted, and settled in a third country: Australia, Denmark, Malaysia, French, Sweden, and many others. Many got accepted by the US. All the refugees who were accepted for resettlement were transported to Panatnikhom transit camp for a month or so to complete the paper work, and to be screened for health before flying to the final destinations.

For those who went to the US, they had to go to either Bataan or Galang to study English and to learn about the life in America

Below are the links to the stories and pictures of the camps that had become part of our journey to freedom. Gaylord Barr captured those moments at Pulau Galang and Bataan when he worked at the camps as an English teacher. Trinh Huy Chuong, a refugee from border camp, had the luxury of a camera to capture the pictures at Panatnikhom during the short time he was there.

Thank you Gaylord and Chuong for sharing these priceless memory.

- Pulau Galang Refugee Camp - Indonesia
- Bataan - Philippines Refugees Processing Center (PRPC)

- Panatnikhom

May 14, 2008

Nha Tho Dong Rek

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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Vai hinh anh chup luc moi ve trai Dongrek nam 1983. Trong hinh co thay Cuong, thay Ton, thay Dai, chu Tung, chu Da, va co ?? dang doc sach thanh
Hinh thu 3 la cha Martin (dang xuc dau cho chu Da). Co ai nho ten cha trong 2 hinh dau khong?

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Anonymous said...: Neu nho khong lam co doc kinh thanh ten Lan; May 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Đúng rồi, Tôi cũng nhớ người đó tên là Lan.

Cô Lan và cô ??? sống chung trong nhóm của
thầy Đài + Quân + anh cùa Quân ???

anh của Quân tên là Chương (không chắc lắm)

Thành Lê; May 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Lan và Bửu. 2 cô ở chung với thầy Đài, Quân, Dương (làm OPD); May 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM

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