March 2023 ~ TRẠI TỊ NẠN ĐƯỜNG BỘ VIỆT NAM TẠI BIÊN GIỚI

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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

March 31, 2023

Another article about our friend: Sieu Sean Do – Surviving the Atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

Friday, March 31, 2023

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https://blog.grindsuccess.com/sieu-sean-do/?fbclid=IwAR3V2QVSdn8NCPvh_HNi_4w07aqjGgPq9dgHbKJBOikrjkVJy9Ze7N71VoESieu Sean Do – Surviving the Atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia ByGrind Success Updated on March 25, 2023 The Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979 left millions to succumb to death, while many faced forced evacuation from Cambodia. It was April 17, 1975, when the Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Sieu Sean Do, one of the survivors of the Cambodian genocide, witnessed people being taken away to communal farms and rural camps as the new regime began its...

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March 23, 2023

An article about our friend: Sieu Sean Do – Enduring and Persisting through the Cambodian Genocide and Atrocities

Thursday, March 23, 2023

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https://www.californiaherald.com/sieu-sean-do-enduring-and-persisting-through-the-cambodian-genocide-and-atrocities/ Photo by Becky Lee When the Communists took power in Cambodia in 1975, they quickly evacuated all cities and towns, forcing nearly two million people to labor in the countryside. In less than four years, nearly two million people or one in every seven Cambodians died due to famine, starvation, and undiagnosed or neglected diseases. Citizens could be jailed for minor transgressions, and the government built massive jails where individuals were confined, tortured, and killed. The most infamous of these jails...

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