TRẠI TỊ NẠN ĐƯỜNG BỘ VIỆT NAM TẠI BIÊN GIỚI: Monsignor Pierre Gaudette

Welcome

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

June 15, 2013

Trước Ngày Hội Ngộ: Monsignor Pierre Gaudette Séminaire de Québec....Một người Ân Nhân của Anh em , bà con Khmer Krom Trại Tị Nạn Đường Bộ Việt Nam...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

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Mgr. Pierre Gaudette uống nước thốt nôt...

Monsignor Pierre Gaudette...nguyên là Giáo sư Thần Học tại Trường Đại Học Laval, Québec... Trước khi thở thành Đức Ông, Cha Pierre Gaudette là người từng bảo trợ rất nhiều gia ̣̣đình , anh chị em từ Trại Tị Nạn Đường Bộ, nhất là anh chị em Khmer Krom. Cha được mô tả là một người khoan hậu , vui vẻ và hòa mình...Ngài từng về Việt Nam, Cambodia để thăm các gia đình của những người mà Ngài đã bão lãnh sang Québec, Canada....Dưới đây là một vài tấm hình cho thấy sự hòa mình và lòng khoan dung của Ngài....Ngài rất vui mừng và hân hạnh được trở về Montréal để gặp lại con cháu của mình trong ngày hội ngộ gia đình trại tị nạn đường bộ vào thứ \bảy 22 tháng sáu sắp tới: