Sunday, March 31, 2013
Hình bác Lâm Nê tại tư gia do Siêu mới gởi.
Bác Lâm Nê sẽ tới Montreal dịp hội ngộ này.
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Bác Lâm Nê sẽ tới Montreal dịp hội ngộ này.
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5 years ago
March 31, 2013
Red Hill - 1983
Easter Day 30 years ago...April 3, 1983
We evacuated to Red Hill. Here we were free from the Khmer Rouge guard. Very few pictures exist at this location.
This photo was
taken just before we rode on the open back of the yellow truck to the
border, to bring back the field hospital tent for the MSF (Medicine
Sans Frontières) , early April, 1983
The MSF white tent served as field hospital had been left at the border when everyone was ordered to evacuate to Red Hill. The tent was close to the anti-tank ditch, and right in front of the mine field where dozen Cambodian refugees had been lying death, blown apart by exploding mines, for quite sometime. Their bodies were bloating under the intense heat, and nobody dared to come in and retrieved the bodies for burial, even their relatives, for fear of live mines still around. (the relatives eventually hired some "chú cùi", the defecting "bộ đội" , or PAVN- People Army of Vietnam, who came in and dug the hole right next to the body and buried the death, for 100 Baht a body)
Several days after evacuating to Red Hill, MSF nurses, Marie Claude and those in the picture, asked if we could send some volunteers to ride with them back to the border, to take apart the tent and get back to Red Hill as quickly as we could, to avoid being targeted by Bo Doi artillery. We all knew the risk then, but we volunteered anyway. I guess we could not say no to all their kindness and generosity.
The picture was taken just before we rode to the border. Not everyone in the picture rode back though. I only remember Thach Khe Mara and me, with two or three Khmers, and probably one or two of us rode in the cab with one of the nurses. I am pretty sure there were more than 4, but do not remember who ...(Hung)
We evacuated to Red Hill. Here we were free from the Khmer Rouge guard. Very few pictures exist at this location.
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| This photo is sent anonymously to our blog. It says the photographer is Patrick Chauvel, a famous French war journalist,
taken on April 10, 1983, one week after we arrived at Red Hill
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Below are a few more rare photos, courtesy of Vu Hoang Quan
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| In front of a tent just set up after the evacuation from the border Quan and Marie Claude of MSF. Dũng and Bình looked on in the back ground |
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| This picture is probably taken in Red Hill, (but could be in Nong Samet) Marie Claude, anh Đài, Quân, Trọng, and others |
The MSF white tent served as field hospital had been left at the border when everyone was ordered to evacuate to Red Hill. The tent was close to the anti-tank ditch, and right in front of the mine field where dozen Cambodian refugees had been lying death, blown apart by exploding mines, for quite sometime. Their bodies were bloating under the intense heat, and nobody dared to come in and retrieved the bodies for burial, even their relatives, for fear of live mines still around. (the relatives eventually hired some "chú cùi", the defecting "bộ đội" , or PAVN- People Army of Vietnam, who came in and dug the hole right next to the body and buried the death, for 100 Baht a body)
Several days after evacuating to Red Hill, MSF nurses, Marie Claude and those in the picture, asked if we could send some volunteers to ride with them back to the border, to take apart the tent and get back to Red Hill as quickly as we could, to avoid being targeted by Bo Doi artillery. We all knew the risk then, but we volunteered anyway. I guess we could not say no to all their kindness and generosity.
The picture was taken just before we rode to the border. Not everyone in the picture rode back though. I only remember Thach Khe Mara and me, with two or three Khmers, and probably one or two of us rode in the cab with one of the nurses. I am pretty sure there were more than 4, but do not remember who ...(Hung)
March 30, 2013
Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: Những khuôn mặt tị nạn xưa
Where are our Friends now???
(Photo courtesy of Trinh Huy Chuong)
(Photo courtesy of Trinh Huy Chuong)
We
don't want to miss anyone...no one should be left behind without
notice...Please by all mean spread the news...encourage each
other...pooling...hand on hand...come altogether, see each other in
person, hug each other tighter...longer than ever before....because we
all know, after that we will again bid farewell for another time...but
this time some of us will be never seen again....Let the new generation,
our children, our sibling , our offsprings...carry over and
forever...so that we all live....Please help us to make this reunion
possible and memorable, unforgettable....No reunion in this earth will
be the same..(Chuong)
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| Chị Khá and her son...where are you now? |
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| Who is this boy? where are you now? |
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| Brother Hai and Thuong: Philadelphie, PA |
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| Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hoa ...Chicago please re-connect us |
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| Lâm Văn Mến..please communicate |
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| Who is this young man? |
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| s this Anh Trang? Please communicate with us |
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| At the mosque in Dongrek. |
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| Are you still out there? Please tell us... |
March 29, 2013
Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: hình ảnh mới nhận- Những khuôn mặt tị nạn xưa
(Photo courtesy of Minh Thach)
Where are our Friends now???
Where are our Friends now???
We
don't want to miss anyone...no one should be left behind without
notice...Please by all mean spread the news...encourage each
other...pooling...hand on hand...come altogether, see each other in
person, hug each other tighter...longer than ever before....because we
all know, after that we will again bid farewell for another time...but
this time some of us will be never seen again....Let the new generation,
our children, our sibling , our offsprings...carry over and
forever...so that we all live....Please help us to make this reunion
possible and memorable, unforgettable....No reunion in this earth will
be the same..(Chuong)
March 28, 2013
Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: The Album - Page 4
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| The Album-Page 4 |
Il ressemblait à une prison. Il y avait une clôture autour du camp, et personne ne pouvait sortir.
March 25, 2013
Trước Thềm Hội Ngộ: The Album - Page 3
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| The Album-Page 3 |
"Après deux jours de march, nous sommes arrivés à Red Hill. C’etait le Dimanche de Pâques. Et moi, j’ai vue de nombreuses personnes blessées, mortes sur la route. Cela était très angoissant, quelque choses qui me faisait vraiment mal au fond du coeur et que je n’oublierai jamais.
Quelques
jours plutard, l’equipe médical “Médecines Sans Frontières” est venue
soigner les gens blessés et les malades. Nous, nous étions très heureux
de les aider dans cette mission qui nous a donnée un bon exmple d’amour
de l’humanité
Personnes d’entre nous ne ....ce qui allait arriver dans le future. Mais
un petit sourire au moins, pour le moment, après s’être sauvé de la
prison Phnom-Chat"
(translated)
"We arrived at Red Hill after two days running in the evacuation. It was Easter Sunday. I've seen many wounded people and death along the way. The scene was very scary, sad, and embedded in my mind forever.
A few day aftre the evacuation to Redhill, the medical team Medicines Sans Frontières came to treat the wounded and the sick. we were very happy to assist them, a small token of appreciation from us
We were not sure what would come in the future, but at least for now we were all smile in this picture, savoring the moment when we were saved from the prison of Phnom Chat "
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Note:This photo was taken just before we rode on the open back of the yellow truck to the border, to bring back the field hospital tent for the MSF (Medicine Sans Frontières) , early April, 1983
The MSF white tent served as field hospital had been left at the border when everyone was ordered to evacuate to Red Hill. The tent was close to the anti-tank ditch, and right in front of the mine field where dozen Cambodian refugees had been lying death, blown apart, for quite sometime. Their bodies were bloating under the intense heat, and nobody dared to come in and retrieve the bodies for burial, even their relatives, for fear of live mines still around. (the relatives eventually hired some "chú cùi", the defecting "bộ đội" , or PAVN- People Army of Vietnam, who came in and dug the hole to bury the death next to where they died, for 100 Baht a body)
Several days after evacuating to Red Hill, MSF nurses, Marie Claude and those in the picture, asked if we could send some volunteers to ride with them back to the border, to take apart the tent and get back to Red Hill as quickly as we could, to avoid being targeted by Bo Doi artillery. We all knew the risk then, but we volunteered anyway. I guess we could not say no to all their kindness and generosity.
The picture was taken just before we rode to the border. Not everyone in the picture rode back though. I only remember Thach Khe Mara and me, with two or three Khmers, and probably one or two of us rode in the cab with one of the nurses. I am pretty sure there were more than 4, but do not remember who ...(Hung)
March 14, 2013
Những Vị Ân Nhân của Trại Tị Nạn Đường Bộ chưa bao giờ biết đến....The never-mentioned before benefactors of the Vietnamese Land Refugees
Not long ago, I have posted here in our blog an article about Mr. Jim Towey (Jim Towey February, 7th , 2013).
During our spring break vacation in the southern Florida last week, I have a great honor to be invited to visit Mr. Jim and his family in Ave Maria, Florida.
Mr. Jim has shared, unfolded and told us (the children, the wives) many stories, details and pictures that we have never heard before.
Our visit was briefing but was fully packed with many memories. We talked, laughed, have a BBQ meals and with our tears in our joyful celebration and family atmosphere.
I took this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Jim Towey and his colleagues for their devotion and helping hands back then almost 3 decades ago.
Like you I even did not know a lot of things had to be done inside and within the US government, the international community (donor nations) to make the South-East Asia Refugee Program successfully possible. The result is simple is that to provide us a full spectrum of freedom and a stable home as we all have today.
I do not intend to re-write anything more or less but wish to at least share to you of what I have been learned. Below is my email to Jim (post trip) and another email to my friends in Washington DC and California. I hope it may bring many of us back where we come from, very unique, very interesting, that was the Vietnamese Land Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Cambodia border during the year of 1982-1989. Please note that I could ask Jim to provide some pictures from his precious albums, but I realize that some materials are very sensitive, not to us, but to other people as they were involved in higher diplomatic level. But I will request Jim to release some of them so that our story and history will be more enhanced and rich in the content. I posted some of our pictures. Thank you (and sorry for my English)
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March 13, 2013
Hình Ảnh Sinh Họat Nhà Thờ Site 2 -
Những hình ảnh nhà thờ công giáo tại trại tị nạn đường bộ ngày lễ Giáng Sinh.
Site 2 North, 12-1985
(Photo courtesy of Louis Tri)
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| Nhà thờ tại Site 2 North |
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| Chuẩn bị thánh lễ buổi sáng Giáng Sinh 25-12-1985 |
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| Lê đức Quang chụp trước nhà thờ mùa Giáng Sinh |
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| Ca đòan chuẩn bị nhạc cụ hát lễ đêm Giáng Sinh |
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| Ca đòan chuẩn bị hát lễ Giáng Sinh |
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| Ca đòan Site 2 Nhận ra chị Tuyết, Lan, Uyên. Anh Lâm đánh nhịp |
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| Chụp hình lưu niệm trước hang đá. Gia đình chị Trang và các bạn |
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| Ông già Noel Nguyển mạnh Hùng (right) và Chương (left) |
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| Chuẩn bị hát lễ. Nhận ra Chi, Lan, Trang, và Uyên |
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| Anh Lâm trao quà lưu niệm cho cha Pierre Ceyrac |
March 12, 2013
Hình Ảnh Hướng Đạo tại Site 2
Vài hình ảnh Hướng Đạo Trần Hưng Đạo tại trại tị nạn đuờng bộ Việt Nam
Site 2 - 1986/1987
(photo courtesy of TranVuong Ton)
Site 2 - 1986/1987
(photo courtesy of TranVuong Ton)
Hình Ảnh & Sinh Họat tại Site 2
Hình Ảnh & Sinh Họat tại Site 2, 1986/1987
(Photo courtesy of Louis Tri)
(Photo courtesy of Louis Tri)
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Hai thanh niên đang giã gạo cho trắng với cối giả làm bằng cây rừng
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| Quốc (một "chú cùi" chuyển về từ Aran) đang mơ ước một chân trời mới vẫn ...mịt mù...xa thẵm. |
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| Một tấm biển cảm ơn những nguời đã đến thăm trại. Lòng biết ơn là truyền thống, đạo đức của người việt tỵ nạn cho dù họ đến bât cứ quốc gia nào |
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| Các em đang chơi trên đuờng và nhìn đòan xe bus tới đưa người tị nạn đi định cư Bóng dáng và tiếng máy của xe bus là dấu hiệu mang nhiều niềm vui và hy vọng vô bờ cho người tỵ nạn. |
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| Chụp hình lưu niệm trước bệnh viện Site 2 |
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| Trong quán cà phê Tư Râu (áo đỏ) |