Thursday, May 13, 2010

Boat People

Part of the terrible aftermath of  the Vietnam war has been exodus of more than a million refugees fleeing from communist oppression.While some have fled overland into Thailand,the majority  have attempted to escape in small boats across the South China Sea to Indonesia or the Philippines or across the Gulf of Siam to Thailand or Malaysia. It is estimated that some 800,000 have died from exposure,drowning or attacks by pirates while making this perilous voyage.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Chuyen Tau Dinh Menh Oan Nghiet














The Potentially Predestined Fate Boat

In the 1945 to 1954,there were several tenth million Vietnamese people evacuated from the North to the South by an ideological war between the North and South people. Since then the Vietnam country had been cutting into two parts by the Hien Luong bridge in the Ben Hai river.There were a lot of innocent Vietnamese people were killed by the North communists.
After the 1950s, the North communists attacked continuously the South in order to take over it.When they completely occupied the South Vietnam in April 1975,the Vietnamese communists have governed the Vietnamese people by bayonets ,rifles, harassed policies ,and they have treated cruelly, tortured,persecuted,and terrorized the Vietnamese people ,especially because of their religious and political beliefs,and they have been suffered economic hardships over the last 34 years.That is why they have risked their lives by small fragile boats and rafts to escape the V.C 's prison systems for five decades. Moreover, the V.Cs have forced all the Vietnam Republic Officers and soldiers to concentrated camps.Most of them were killed and some others were tortured and imprisoned to death.My family was a victim and witness of the V.C's violence, too. To fulfill their aspiration for liberty,the Vietnamese people had found every way to escape the V.C prison systems.They disguised themselves like some farmers to cross the Vietnam- Cambodia frontier.Some people crossed by walk in the forest and some others went by small fragile plastic cans and boats.Most of them were intercepted by the V.C,Cambodia,and Pol Pot armies.They were raped,extorted,imprisoned and killed.There were several hundred thousand people died silently in the sea.Most of them were killed by Thailand pirates.Luckily,I escaped from the death after a cruel torture in Cambodia prison. Seven days later, i decided to escape with some my imprisoned friends to cross the Cambodia-Thailand border.On the way to flee,some imprisoned friends were arrested again and tortured to death.To fulfill a long hard trip,I went to Kongpongsom harbor to sell some gold in order to buy some dry provisions.Two days later, I continued my hard and dangerous trip.I stayed up all night to go down a small fragile boat with 30 Vietnamese people and two Cambodia ones.We had to sit up with a very small and narrow space with a crowed people.We departed at 3 a.m from Kongpongsom harbor to Thailand. It took about two days during the boat running on the sea,I had mixed feelings.I really felt so happy and sad when i left my country.I was happy because i had escaped the blood-thirsty V.C regime.I was sad because i left all my intimate relatives away in Vietnam.When my emotion was stirring and jumbling,suddenly my friends called me and they noticed that the boat's engine was out of order.We tried to repair it,but some parts of engine had broken.Then we started the fire to call a near by boats or ships to rescue us,but no one answered.We were waiting in a hopeless situation.Our boat had floated on the sea for three days, we had no food and medicines.Some people prayed,some babies cried for thirsty milk ,and some others screamed for panic.Some women decided to cut on their fingers and wrists in order to take their blood to feed their babies.Most women died for losing blood.We prayed and cried silently.Then we tore our clothes to make a sign"S.O.S",we painted it by our blood.
Three days later,while we were still waiting in hopeless situation, our health was more and more bad to worse.Most of us were exhausted by a long trip days without food and drinking water.Some women who survived were a high fever because of their injuries.They died after a few days when they lost their blood.We had prayed for them and we threw their bodies into the sea.One day later, I was exhausted too,and I was unconscious.A fanciful scenery with sufferings and deaths began appearing in my mind.I tried to forget that perspective,but it always appeared in my memory repeatedly.I cried secretly and prayed to rest in peace.Suddenly, the infuriated storm waves sank my boat to the bottom of the sea.Some people had screamed in panic and hopeless situation.They had slept in silent forever in the sea.Fortunately, I was survived by a small raft of the boat.I had tried to swim to the sea port land,but neither port nor land were seen.
Three days later,I awoke in a dispensary of a small Thai village after i got infusion and some soup.When i woke up on the patient's bed,i didn't recognized that where I was.Two weeks later,the Thai polices referred me to a Pha nat Nikhom refugee camp when i completely recovered .
In the refugee camp, I had suffered the hardships.The real suffering prospect appeared in front of me.I had faced with many difficulties.I couldn't stand with those prospects,so i was obsessed, depressed and I was mental.In 1996, I was forced repatriation to Vietnam,the place that the Vietnamese people had paid by their lives to look for freedom.I had disgusted the V.C regime.The place that I left everything away.Since then i felt sick of life to live any more and i had surrendered myself. It really was my disastrous destiny.
To be continued...

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Khu A Biet Giam Trai Sikiew

Cac ban than men,
Gia dinh toi la cuu thuyen nhan bi biet giam tai khu A 5&6.Vi chinh sach thanh loc bat cong cua nuoc So tai la Thailand da day biet bao nguoi khat vong Tu Do di vao ngo cut.Mot so lon da bo minh tren Bien Ca mai mai.So con lai da phai song lay lat cho co mot ngay thuc hien duoc khat vong Tu Do cua ho.Nhung chinh quyen So Tai va bon CSVN da "Bat Tay"chia nhau an nhung "Dong Tien Ban" cua Cao Uy Lien Hiep Quoc nham day tat ca Thuyen Nhan tro ve Nguc Tu Cong San,noi ma ho da phai danh doi Mang Song de tim kiem Tu Do.Bat hanh thay,mot so thuyen nhan may man den duoc cac trai tam dung,nhung bi chinh quyen So tai buc hai bang nhieu cach nham muc dich thuc hien chuong trinh CPA oan nghiet.Mot so nguoi da tu van vi bi thanh loc bat cong,so con lai da phai tra bang mau trong nhung ngay song lay lat tai trai.Ho da phai song thua suc vat,hon nua ho bi Khung Bo tinh than va the xac hang ngay.Co nguoi da bi danh dap bi xay thai,va co nguoi da bi danh cho den chet.Mac du ho da tuyet thuc de phan doi chinh sach bao luc cua Ban An Ninh trai,nhung ho van cu tiep tuc Dan Ap cho den ngay 29/6/1996 la chuyen Cuong Buc Hoi Huong dau tien ve Nguc Tu CSVN.Sau do ho da bi chinh Quyen CSVN buc hai bang nhieu cach nhu "Dung Xe",Cam Tu,han che cong viec lam...!Ho da phai song lay lat trong tui nhuc va khong he nhan duoc bat cu mot su tro giup nao cua chinh phu CSVN.
Con nhieu noi dau khac nua ma toi chua duoc biet den.Hy vong tat ca cac anh chi hay giong len tieng chuong thuc tinh Bo Ngoai Giao Hoa Ky nham som thong qua du luat HR1969 ,Nhan Quyen cho Viet Nam.Trong do co Section 501 danh cho nhung Thuyen Nhan bat kha khang.
Rat mong cac ban gop phan noi len Su That ve Quyen con nguoi noi cac ban dang song.
Gia Dinh anh Bay Khu A 5&6