ARTICLES & BOOKS
The survivors
1979
The aftermath of the Vietnam War ...
"By the hundreds of thousands Asians fled their homelands in search of a future without war, discrimination, hunger, and death. Most of those who escaped death await their fate in barbed-wire camps or on secluded islands. Tribune reporter Ronald Yates and photographer Anne Cusack traveled to Southeast Asia to record the story of the survivors." [Chicago Tribune]
- 40,000 Hmong were in CIA's 'secret army' (PDF, 52k)
- Our forgotten allies in Laos being massacred (PDF, 328k)
- Foreigners in Bangkok brothels are country's economic stimulus (PDF, 864k)
- Dust, barbed wire, and fading dreams of the good life: Nations bickers while refugees just sit, stare (PDF, 132k)
- Refugees victims of world indifference (PDF, 72k)
- Voice of the People: U.S. needs better Asian refugee plan (PDF, 52k)
- GIs still held in Viet prisons, refugees report (PDF, 92k)
- Asian refugees: 'Mother of Jesus have pity on us' (PDF, 248k)
- 'We could hear our women crying, begging for help' (PDF, 136k)
- Jungle settlement is testament to tenacity (PDF, 224k)
- Refugees fear life sentence on island (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Boat people seek dignity but often find hostility (PDF, 368k)
- 'Coming home' — Her story will end in Chicago (PDF, 932k)
- Report Cambodia a death camp (PDF, 48k)
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