LEITER 2
~My life as a refugee.
I am a refugee from vietnam - a part of the world in which there is no human dignity, no life and no freedom,
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on the 30th of cApril, 1975, the communists took ever the entire of South vietnam. Ever since vietnames people, like me, have had to leave their homeland in search of a free country by small boat. I came here because I could not live under the communist regime. under the communist regime my jamily could not live, for my father had been a soldier before 1975. I did not know how I could до
to university and my family did not know how my jamily
could live in a society that would never accept jamilies who had worked for the former regime. So my family was forced to go to a new economic zone. I think that it is the same situation for millions of families in vietnam.
In order to look for freedom, human dignity, and a higher Standard
of life. I agreed to face every Sanger on the sea even though I might become food for fish the fish or die of
starvation and thirst on the way to a country in which there is freedom, and even though I'd lose anything had treasured most in my life. even my friends and my old folks at home.
It was
a clear night at the beginning of July 1984. After, very carefully, organizing with the neighbourhood, I, secretly, quent away without saying goodbye to
my parents.
Sixteen Says and nights later, after being bryjeted by the waves and wind of the ocean in the boat that was too small to take more six, I came to Hong kong. Unfortunately I came to Hong kong after the 2nd of July 1982. So I was put under arrest in chimawan closed centre for vindefinite period.
At the age of sixteen. I had to live at the place where I only have a piece of wood to live. It is about two metres long and one metre wise. Maybe that is my house. Every day I wait for the head count by C.S.D, at 7:00 a.m and I have tovo limited meals from joodstuff brought to this camp by U.N.H.C.R. Life isn't busy in this camp. I always think of my resettlement and hope that I will be resettled in a third country, Some Say, Sure
Sure in every bad luck I also have good luck I have been & interviewed by American delegation, but Sisappointment came. I call it disappointment, since it was like an ice cream under sunshine.
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Plight & stel asked myself why I have been living here in this
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Many times, in the three years, I have been living here. plight? why must I live here? why have I been living te at the place, like a prison? Why have I been in prison ? It is not for breaking the law or killing somebody. I have been living here for three and a half years. At the moment I don't know When I will be free like others in the world. I don't know how long I can ensure this plight. And I am still living in Chimawan closed centre
A refugee from Hong kong
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