Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Site 2 , 1984-1986 - set 11 Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Site 2 , 1984-1986 - set 11

Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

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Our friend Sieu Sean Do (aka Do Chi Sieu) is writing his biography and needs friends' support. Below is information Sieu has created to raise fund for this book.

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Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Nong Samet 1984 - set 10 - Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Nong Samet 1984 - set 10

Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

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Our friend Sieu Sean Do (aka Do Chi Sieu) is writing his biography and needs friends' support. Below is information Sieu has created to raise fund for this book.
Click on the link below to find out how
http://www.gofundme.com/5x6awg

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A place called home - Photo courtesy of Stéphane Rousseau

To the refugees then, these volunteers were living in paradise. They must have good food, beautiful place, nice cars, wonderful walkies talkie, full of power. Now that we all know how a comfortable life feel like. We live in place where food is bountiful and convenience a given, we just realize the volunteers must abandon their comfortable lives to come to the dangerous border to save us, to lend us a hand when we were the most helpless.

Here is a photo of the place Stephane used to live and worke for the refugees at the border camps. How many of us could be willing to do the same to our fellow refugees who are still everywhere around the world: Ethiopia, Somalia, Burma, Syria...to name a few?

Notre maison, à Andy et moi, à Tapraya
(Our home - Andy and me) in Tapraya

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Return to Aranyaprathet, 2010 - Photos courtesy of Stéphane Rousseau

The refugees at the border camps knew the name of the places where the volunteers departed each morning to come to the camps and returned at night:  Aranyaprathet, Tapraya, Banthai Samart...but we really never had a chance to go there, never envisioned what the towns look like.

Until now. These are photos of Aranyaprathet (know as Aran by refugees)  taken by Stéphane Rousseau, an UNBRO camp officer during our refugee time, to show the town many of us only know by name, and the organizations we remember by heart, when he revisited Aran in 2010

Thanks Stéphane for sharing these photos.

The photo album could be viewed here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/112529052878961710519/ReturnToAranyaprathetFeb2010?noredirect=1#

This used to be the location of the former UNBRO Warehouse.
Now occupied by Lotus, KFC...




And this, on the other side of the street, used to be the UNBRO Office








This was the very last office of UNBRO-UNHCR which I opened in 1994 and occupied,
as the Last of the UNBRO Mohicans..




What used to be the COERR office, from where Monta and all her COERR Medical Team friends used to leave every morning before heading to Site 2








The street across the Thalat Thorung (in front of Ploen)




The famous recognizable clock of Aranyaprathet's entrance, now lost in the middle of an intense traffic.


The photo album could be viewed here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/112529052878961710519/ReturnToAranyaprathetFeb2010?noredirect=1#

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My Biography - Sieu Sean Do

Our friend Sieu Sean Do (aka Do Chi Sieu) is writing his biography and needs friends' support. Below is information Sieu has created to raise fund for this book. 

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Dear Friends and family,


As many of you may already know, I am a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and of the war between Cambodia and Vietnam. At the age of eleven, I was forced to leave my country and moved to Vietnam. After living there for seven years, I fled to a refugee camp in Thailand where I joined the International Red Cross and trained as a physician’s assistant. 

I was considered a young medic among the team and my language abilities gave me an opportunity to help doctors and delegates to bridge communication gaps. From 1982 to 1985, I served over 8000 refugees at the Thailand border. In 1985, the Danish Red Cross selected me to study in Denmark, where I lived for five years until my arrival to the United States in 1989. 

Currently, I am fundraising for the writing of my autobiography. This project will require tremendous commitment, time and energy. It will take about eighteen months to complete the book. Your contributions will allow me to retell an unsung history--my experiences of living through the Khmer Rouge genocide, my witnessing medical volunteers, and many other non-profit organizations selflessly dedicated their lives for our survival. I hope these stories can be passed down to our younger generation and to others who have yet to know how refugees lived at the border between Cambodia and Thailand. 
Respectfully,

Sieu Sean Do

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Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Nong Samet 1984 - set 9 Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

Hình ảnh trại tị nạn biên giới Nong Samet 1984 - set 9

Photo courtesy of Do Chi Sieu

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