加拿大新時代電視大城小聚訪問葉浪畫家 Fairchild TV LeisureTalk with artist latyip By October 1975, the Communists had started the "Communism Reform" throughout the country. Residents in the urban cities were forced to migrate to forest or mountain areas that were collectively known as the "New Economic Development" zone. If part of my family were not "willing" to move to the countryside, the government would force us (my family had a total of thirteen members) to leave and forfeit all of our properties without mercy. In order to try and keep our house in Saigon , our family separated; my two brothers', older sister, father and myself left for our new "home". (I thought it wasn't possible to keep the house in Saigon since the government forced EVERYONE in the family to leave?) Life in the development zone was tough; we spent long days clearing areas of dense jungle and tried to cultivate the land. Farming became part of our daily life. In a communist fashion we worked together and shared the harvest. However, since no one really could own their own land and enjoy the full benefits of their fruitful labor, no one could really concentrate on their work. Meanwhile, due to the harshness of the land, we were living in poverty and struggling to survive. Three years passed without much change, Often individuals tried to escape back to the city, but if you were caught by the government, you would be jailed and relocated to a harder labor camp. The plight of the boat people became an international humanitarian crisis. The UNHCR, under the auspices of the United Nations, set up refugee camps in neighbouring countries to process the "boat people" and was awarded the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize for its work. There were untold miseries, rapes and murders on the South China Sea committed by Thai pirates who preyed on the refugees who had sold all their possessions and carried gold with them on the trips. Camps were set up in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. According to stories told by the Vietnamese refugees, the conditions at the camps were bad. Not much of the generous aid money actually got to the refugees. And in particular, refugees at Thai camps were maltreated and many were brutally bullied by the Thai guards. Most of the refugees came from the former South Vietnam. However, soon after the first wave between 1975-1978, North Vietnamese from seaside cities such as Haiphong started to escape and land in Hong Kong. Among them were genuine ethnically Chinese Vietnamese refugees who escaped from Vietnam and headed to China and the city of Hong Kong. One forgotten group of Vietnamese boat people were those who escaped by land across the Cambodian and Thailand border. They did not travel by boat, but they ended up at the same camps just like those who braved the seas. The Orderly Departure Program from 1979 until 1994 was one such program that helped to resettle refugees in the United States. In this program, refugees were asked to go back to Vietnam and waited for assessment. If they were deemed to be eligible to be re-settled in the US according to the criteria the US government had established, they would be allowed to migrate to the USA. After ODP, there was another program called Humanitarian Operation. In this program, many former Southern Vietnamese who were involved in the former regime or working for the US would be allowed to migrate to the US provided that they had suffered harsh persecutions by the communist regime after 1975. Also the half-American children in Vietnam also allowed to migrate along with their mothers or foster parents. This also sparked a feverish wave of rich Vietnamese parents buying the right from the real mothers or foster parents. They paid money (in the black market) to transfer the half-American children into their custody, then applied for visa to migrate to the USA. Most of these half-American children were born of American soldiers and illiterate prostitutes. They were subject of discrimination, poverty, neglects and abuse. It was a big headache for the US to accept and deal with these children that the Vietnamese government were glad to be rid of. The United States and Vietnam signed an agreement on November 15, 2005, which allows those Vietnamese to immigrate who were not able to do so before the humanitarian operation program ended in 1994. Effectively this new agreement was the extension and also final chapter of the HO program. click here 知心迴響Intimate Reply · click here 傳媒報導 Media Report. Quick Search, Guest Book, VIP word, Biography, My Story, Oil Painting, Water Color, Photo, Links, Join My Site Ring, Limited Print, other ... subscribe. to inoutdesign. Added: December 17, 2006 From: inoutdesign. CTV news, vietnamese boat people , 投奔怒... CTV news, vietnamese boat people , 投奔怒海 www. latyip .com (more) (less). Category Film & Animation lat yip 葉浪. Tag: vietnamese , boatpeople , latyip , arts. Description: CTV news vietnamese boat people 投奔怒海. Art Exhition in Melbourne ... Description: 葉浪怒海油畫作品汪洋中的一條船 latyip vietnam boatpeople ... For many of Vietnam's boat people , however, return was the only option -- unlike those who fled Vietnam in the "early days" of departures. In the years following the Vietnam War, over one million refugees fled the war-ravaged countries of Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos. Those Vietnamese who took to the ocean in tiny overcrowded ships were dubbed the " boat people Archive of Vietnamese Boat People , Archive of Vietnamese Refugees, Archive of Vietnamese Displace People. Unlike the wave of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s and early 1980s, most boat people arriving in Western ... One forgotten group of Vietnamese boat people were those who escaped by land across the Cambodian and Thailand border
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