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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

January 14, 2008

Nong Samet - 1983

Monday, January 14, 2008

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(Photo courtesy of Le Van Hung)

Nong-Samet- 1983.

Day la` le`u A, B cu?a nguoi` Cha`m. De? y' tha'y nhu~ng vu~ng nuo'c do.ng giu~a 2 gian le`u!

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Unknown said...: Co phai day la NW82 khong anh Hung?

Chinh la toi thuong song trai NW82. Dinh cu nuoc My nam 1983. flyhighdan@yahoo.com; January 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM
ttnbg said...: Anh Tham Bui:
Đây là trại Nong Samet, sát bên cạnh NW82. Hình này chụp lúc NW82 đã đóng cửa (tháng 2/1983) khoảng tháng 6 tới tháng 9 năm 1983. Khi chúng tôi chuyển tới Nong Samet thì NW82 chỉ còn là một bãi đất trống ngay bên cạnh...buồn đến tuyệt vọng; January 6, 2014 at 7:25 PM
Unknown said...: Cam on anh Hung,

Gia dinh em dinh cu vao thang 2, 1983. Vao trai Panatnikom. Den Bataan va dinh cu My thang 9, 1983. Em co di Campuchea va tim duong den trai Nong Chan. Em duoc den Sisaphon 1 tuan nam 2003. Khong the nao di vao trai Nong Chan. Thang 10 nam nai em dinh den de tim mo mot nguoi than. Co the anh Hung giup em tim cach khong? flyhighdan@yahoo.com hoac so 727-656-3139; January 8, 2014 at 2:37 PM
ttnbg said...: Mình không biết đi đến những trại này cách nào, cũng không biết ai đã về thăm lại những nơi này ngoài Stéphane Rousseau. Tham Bui có thể hỏi ông ta đi như thế nào...chúc Tham Bui may mắn, thành công nhé; January 31, 2014 at 3:31 PM

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