Fall of Saigon – 35 Years Later
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. It is estimated that 400,000 “boat people” died attempting to escape the soldiers of the Communist North Vietnam.
KPBS has a fantastic interview with, Dr. Dzung Le, a Vietnamese refugee who escaped Saigon and is now a pathologist in San Diego.
Do you have any links to stories of refugees? Please post them here, I’m sure many readers will appreciate them.
Related posts:
Probably one of the most ‘known’ refugees: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm12.html – he immigrated to the US, where he opened a restaurant – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan
… and of course the burned girl running away naked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th%E1%BB%8B_Kim_Ph%C3%BAc – she defected in 1992, now living in Canada.