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Audio depicts interview with Mai and Hung by Stuart Birks. Part 1 of 2, featuring: Decision to leave Vietnam. After 1975 moved from Hue to Saigon for 4 years, but no future there. The successful journey. First attempt, caught and imprisoned. Second time just 5 oldest children. Claimed to be Chinese. Pirates, 3 encounters. Pirates gave them water. Got to Malaysian island, there for a month (330 people from their boat, 13m x 3m).

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Object type
Audio
Date
February 27, 2021

Taxonomy

Community Tags
boat people,
oral history,
refugees,
vietnam,

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