TRẠI TỊ NẠN ĐƯỜNG BỘ VIỆT NAM TẠI BIÊN GIỚI

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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

TRẠI TỊ NẠN NW82

TRẠI TỊ NẠN PHOMCHAT, NONG CHAN

TRẠI TỊ NẠN NONG SAMET

TRẠI TỊ NẠN DONG REK

TRẠI TỊ NẠN SITE A

TRẠI TỊ NẠN SITE 2

HỘI NGỘ MONTREAL 2013

Tại Saint Joseph's Oratory

October 22, 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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Tên từ trái qua phải
Hàng 1 : Hồng (nhỏ), Quang, Bà An, Thành (em cô Oanh ở chung với Linh) ,
Chiến, Lâm (họa sĩ) ???, Hoàng, somene???
Hàng 2: Huân, so???, A Muối (em cô Chen), so ??? , Phong

Có thể hình này chụp lúc mới tới RedHill
Thời gian vừa chạy từ Phnon Chat ra không
có tấm bạt Xanh này, và lúc đó cũng chưa
có thì giờ để dựng lều như vậy.

Nong Samet thì có nhà đã dựng sẵn

Thành

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October 21, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Nhu vay la tam hinh nay chup ngay talup, luc chay loan tu Phnomchat qua
Thailand do ha! Truoc khi chay loan ve Red Hill?
Chac la nhu vay....
Oh, quy hoa qua! Nguoi anh em nao post tam hinh nay vay? XIn cho biet
ten voi, con hinh nao nhu vay nua khong?
That la quy qua

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Hinh nay hinh nhu khong phai o NongSamet. Nhung nguoi trong hinh toi tu
Phnomchat (co A muoi, ba An, Tuan con). Duong nhu la hinh chup o Red
Hill (chi co Red Hill co leu xanh nhu vay)
AI viet chu nan not dep qua vay? Hinh nay qua la tuyet voi... Hiem quy
Cam on ban nao da goi nhe.

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Photo of Vietnamese Refugees at Nong Samet, 1983

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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The photographer is Patrick Chauvel, and the photo is dated April 10, 1983. The caption reads “at Nongsa Camp”, but I suspect that it was Nong Samet and the photographer misunderstood the name.

Recognize anyone here?