![]() The result, Boat People, Personal Stories From The Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996, showcases the determination of men, women and children who risked everything-home, friends, family, even life itself-for a chance at freedom. Along the way, she started to collect the stories of Vietnam’s so-called “boat people,” to bear witness to a migration that her daughter’s generation knows little about and that modern Vietnam seems to easily forget. Many more died on uninhabited islands, victims of tropical diseases, hunger and heartbreak.įor the past 16 years, Carina Hoang-who made her own successful escape in 1979-has been helping refugees return to these remote islands to find the graves of lost loved ones. ![]() Thousands perished en route to safer shores or fell prey to marauding pirates. For the Hoangs and hundreds of thousands of their fellow South Vietnamese, it was the beginning of a decades-long nightmare-one that prompted one of the largest mass exoduses in modern history as political refugees fled, year after year, in rickety boats across the South China Sea. Everything just changed.”Ī few days later, on April 30, General Duong Van Minh surrendered to the Viet Cong and the Fall of Saigon was complete. ![]() It felt as if somebody pulled a rug from under your feet. ![]() ![]() You just never knew what might happen next and there’s all of this speculation-people cannot trust each other, people cannot say anything without being worried it will be used against you. ![]()
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