By David Stamp HONG KONG, Feb 5, Reuter -Rioting at a Vietnamese
camp in which 21 inmates were burned alive underlines the urgent need for
boat people to go home, the Hong Kong government said on Wednesday.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: Stephen R Denney <sden
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 22:37:22 -0700
Local: Tues 26 Apr 1994 06:37
Subject: Boat People s Dreams of Freedom End (fwd)
Moreover, a booklet found in archive of University of California Library–
PROJECT NGOC ( PEARL ) drives me decisive from hesitation to writing.
Although the incident happened long ago but it still recalls my passion to
those who suffer in it. The bloodshed in Vietnam actually began from Trinh-
Nguyen dynasty civil war and so prolongs until 30 April 1975, but such
long a fearsome fight is not sufficient for them to establish a proper justice.
While in Hong Kong Refugee Camp, they, either Northerners or
Southerners, are on the same boat tramping to an uncertainty, almost of
them can survive together, love each other, but some diehard from them are
still not to merge in a common harmony life. Any certain chance can be
taken to recall North VS South conflict then developed further. They are in
two gangs to fight throughout several days, the local authority used to call
for support from army to stop them. The catastrophe is stimulated by a
quarrel about heated water between the people of two neighbour camps,
the contradiction leads to a burning in one camp and kills 21 peoples,
