TRẠI TỊ NẠN ĐƯỜNG BỘ VIỆT NAM TẠI BIÊN GIỚI: Site A

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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

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February 04, 2023

Video thánh lễ do cha Pierre Ceyrac tại Site A

Saturday, February 04, 2023

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Khi bộ đội Việt Nam tấn công vào trại Dongrek tháng 1 năm 1985, cả trại phải di tản vào trại Site A trong đất Thái Lan.Chỉ vài ngày sau đó cha Pierre Ceyrac vào thăn và dâng thánh lễ. Thánh đường là khoảng đất trống giửa rừng, bàn thờ là thùng giấy nhỏ phủ khăn trắng. Giáo dân là tất cả những ai, công giáo, phật giáo hay vô thần, đã tin vào ơn lành của Chúa đã gìn giử họ những ngày qua, cùng quay quần quanh cha, hát lên bài thánh ca

Ah vì sao tự nhiên tôi mơ màng
Khi nắng chiều ngã bóng, trời vào tối
Ah vì sao tự nhiên tôi ngậm ngùi
Thương cho mình vẫn xa nước trời.

Xin mời mọi người cùng coi lại cảnh này.
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June 06, 2013

Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: Những tấm hình bây giờ mới thấy

Thursday, June 06, 2013

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Do Chi Sieu just receives some photos taken on the day the first group of refugees were transported to Panatnikhom from Site A, the very first morning after we evacuated to Site A from Dongrek.

On the morning of Jan 25,1985, after an exhausted night in the forest, this group of refugees were blessed to walk about half an hour (or one hour?) to a clearing in the forest, known as Site 2 later in our journey, where the beautiful busses were waiting for them. They would be in Panatnikhom that afternoon, while the rest of us were still looking for each others, crying with each other, erecting shelter, digging trenches, waiting for the brutal unknown lurking on the other side of the border.

These are the photos of the lucky ones, the chosen ones, the happiest ones on earth at the time. We wish to hear the story from them, and share with each other the joy, the jubilant, the sadness, the depressed... the most memorable moment in our life.

Thank you Peter Korslund, and thanks Sieu, for sharing these priceless photos.

4/13/2023 updated: According to Do Chi Sieu, the photos in this post could be taken by Magaret or Peter Pond of ICRC

Peter Korslund, on right, seen in this photo working with two other volunteers at Khao I Dang for the malnourished children under five in the refugee camps.
Peter is the photographer of all the photos in this post.
Thank you, Peter

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May 14, 2013

Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: When we were young....Memory of Refugee Time...(2)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: Những khuôn mặt tị nạn xưa ....

Bạn bè Tị Nạn Đường bộ khắp nơi gởi về blog những tấm hình vô giá, những tấm hình tưởng chừng phai nhòa theo năm tháng,những tấm hình đã theo ta từ những ngày tháng khổ cực năm xưa tị nạn, nhưng vẫn nằm trong những shoe box, ở đâu đó trong garage, tủ đồ cổ....tưởng chừng bị quên dần quên mòn vì những biến đổi vì hòan cảnh, cuộc sống, bôn ba, lam lũ, bận rộn....những tấm hình đó nay vẫn còn đó, nhưng người đâu, bạn đâu, tri kỷ đâu??? Cả bầu trời tràn ngập kỷ niệm chợt tràn về...xoa dịu những nếp nhăn tàn tạ của mình vì kiếp tha hương, mưu sinh cho tồn tại...

Những tấm hình của chúng ta sẽ không bao giờ bị bỏ quên...sẽ sống mãi...cho con cho cháu chúng ta , cho hậu thế biết về dĩ vãng của chúng ta...sẽ trở thành di sản ....văn khố của những "bộ nhân" hay VNLR <Vietnamese Land Refugee>....

Xin chia sẽ bà con bạn bè năm phương bốn hướng....
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