Chapter 18: Rare Flowers of the Country ( I )

Nguyen Du 阮攸 (1766-1820)
A celebrated Vietnamese poet

Eyes 眼睛

Mother 母親

Health 健康

覺知

高玉鳳

Re-education camp 再教育營 (trại học tập cải tạo)

極右(越南)

Amnesty International 國際特赦組織

蒼松

麥田

白雲

陽光

PEN International 國際筆會
Promotion Literature, Defense freedom of expression

通行證

藥房

園藝

做飯

洗碗碟

釘書

芹苴, 鳳協縣

12 僧尼自焚

Thay Hue Hien 慧賢法師

阿壽 Tho (Sister CK's sister)

"佛教徒報導, 12人在越南自焚" 國際先驅論壇報 International Herald Tribune (9-9-1976)

Le Monde 世界報

France Soir 法蘭西晚報

Le Figaro 費加羅報

Daniel Berrigan (1921 -)

Philip Berrigan (1923-2002)

Daniel Ellsberg (1931- )
A former United States military analyst. He released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War.

倫敦教友會

David McAree 大衛.麥加里

Udo Janz 烏都.延茲
the head of UNHCR's New York Office, 2010

middle (2011)

菲律賓難民營

牛津大學

繫獄一朝，長若自由千秋

Duyen Anh 緣英 (1935-1997)
A writer, journalist and poet active in South Vietnam before the year 1975 and go overseas after 1981.

Thanh Tam Tuyen 程心漩 (1936-2006) photos
Born in Vinh, northern Vietnam, in 1936, moved to Saigon in 1954, emigrated to the US in 1983, and died in Minnesota in 2006. He was also the first Viet poet to write about jazz.

1966

Duan Quoc Sy (?Doãn Quốc Sỹ) 尹國士 (1923-)
A fiction writer and critic

Hoang Hai Thuy 黃海翠 (1933-)
News reporter

Nguyen Sy Te 阮詩濟

Hoang Cam 詩人黃甘 (1922-2010)
poet, playwright, and novelist

Thay Tam Quang 心光法師

Vinh Hien 袁顯

Phan Nhat Nam 范日南 (1943 -)
a writer, known as South Vietnam's most famous war reporter

Duy Lam 唯林

Tri Hai 智海

Nguyen Thi Nghia 阮詩義

Committee Against Famine 抗飢荒委員會

Thanh Hoa Province 清化

Nghe An Province 倪安

Ha Tinh Province 夏清

Thien Huong 善香



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Chapter 17: The Boat People

◆ World Conference in Religion and Peace, WCRP 世界宗教和平會議
Religions for Peace, full name World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) is a large international coalition of representatives from the world’s religions dedicated to promoting peace founded in 1970.
In Asia, the ACRP started in September 1974 at Louvain, Belgium, among Asian delegates attending the Second Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace.

◆ The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR 聯合國難民專員公署(since 1950)

◆ United Press International UPI美聯社

◆ Agence France AFP法新社

◆ Lisaka Yoshiaki飯坂良明 (1926-2003)
He was born in Toyama Prefecture on March 30, 1926. He graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law with a major in Political Economics in 1948. Mr. Iisaka was also a member of the Japan Council Committee of the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP), the director of the Peace Research Institute, the secretary-general of the Asian Conference on Religion and Peace (ACRP).
1926（大正15）年３月30日富山県滑川市中町生まれ。
世界宗教者平和会議日本委員会評議員、WCRP平和研究所所長、アジア宗教者平和会議事務総長を務めた。

◆ Mau Chay Rout Mem [腸破血流]拯救方案 (Máu Chảy Ruột Mềm) more

◆ Roland (ship) 貨船羅蘭號

1976

◆ Leapdal (ship)貨船利普特號

sister Chan Khong on Leapdal 1977

◆ Black Mark (ship)??小船黑印號

◆ Jacques Gasseau French Ambassador in Singapore 法國註新加坡大使: 傑克.伽索

taller one (1977)

◆ Perth, Australia 澳洲,佩斯

top view

◆ Refugee travel document (/ ID card)難民身份證明書

◆ Melbourne, Australia 澳洲,墨爾本

◆ Henry Kamm(1925- ) New York Times 紐約時報記者:亨利.甘

◆ Trad, Thailand 泰國,拉德
The province is close to Chanta Buri and Cambodia in the North and adjacent to the Gulf of Thailand in the South. The east is separated from Cambodia by Buntud Mount Range eastwards from the middle of the province.

◆ Refugee camp, Thailand泰國難民營

1997

1975

◆ Conference on boat people, Geneva??日內瓦船民問題會議

◆ Gulf of Siam暹羅灣

breathe... to be continued