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Title: After The War - Paul Gross (Thuyền Nhân) - Sung by Sarah Slean View count: 2402 Rating: 5.0 (13 ratings) Description: Paul Gross - After the War Lyrics: After the guns are silent After your wounds have healed After those crosses Have been planted in all those fields After that long boat ride All the way across the sea And after this train carries me [Chorus:] I will love you after the war Love you for always, forever more I will love you after the war Forever for always and more [ Find more Lyrics on www.mp3lyrics.org/DI2s ] After your boots dry and the tobacco's all but gone Long before those postcards you've carried under your arm After I remember The words I couldn't say And after this long night fades away [Chorus:] After this blackbird lifts up from off your chest And after your soul takes it's final rest My love, I forgive you I never planned to die and love, I'll place two pennies over your eyes A PRAYER FOR LAND Lost in the tempests out on the open seas our small boats drift we seek for land during endless days and endless nights we are the foam floating on the vast ocean we are the dust wandering in endless space our cries are lost in the howling wind without food, without water, our children lie exhausted until they cry no more we thirst for land but are turned back from every shore our distress signals rise and rise again but the passing ships do not stop how many boats have perished how many families lie beneath the waves Lord Jesus, do you hear the prayer of our flesh? Lord Buddha, do you hear our voice? O fellow humans, do you hear our voice from the abyss of death? o solid shore we long for you! We pray for Mankind to be present today! We pray for Land to stretch its arms to us! We pray that Hope be given us TODAY, from any Land! Xin Đừng Quên Tôi Thuyền Nhân Boat people is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War. Events resulting from the Vietnam War led many people in Cambodia, Laos, and especially Vietnam to become refugees in the late 1970s and 1980s, after the fall of Saigon. In Vietnam, the new communist government sent many people who supported the old government in the South to "re-education camps", and others to "new economic zones." An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials. According to published academic studies in the United States and Europe, 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps. Thousands were abused or tortured. These factors, coupled with poverty, caused hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to flee the country. In 1979, Vietnam was at war (Sino-Vietnamese War) with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Many ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam, who felt that the government's policies directly targeted them, also became "boat people." On the open seas, the boat people had to confront forces of nature, and elude pirates. The plight of the boat people became an international humanitarian crisis. There were untold miseries, rapes and murders on the South China Sea committed by Thai pirates who preyed on the refugees who had sold all their possessions and carried gold with them on the trips. The UNHCR, under the auspices of the United Nations, set up refugee camps in neighbouring countries to process the "boat people". They received the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize for this. Camps were set up in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. According to stories told by the Vietnamese refugees, the conditions at the camps were poor. Very little of the aid money donated primarily by the United States actually got to the refugees. Refugees at Thai camps were maltreated and many were brutally bullied by the Thai guards. Some 863 Vietnamese were known to be raped, 763 people physically attacked and killed, and 489 people abducted, some 77% of refugee boats leaving in 1981 were attacked by Thais.[4] Most of the refugees came from the former South Vietnam. However, soon after the first wave between 1975-1978, North Vietnamese from seaside cities such as Haiphong started to escape and land in Hong Kong. Among them were genuine ethnically Chinese Vietnamese refugees who escaped from Vietnam and headed to China and Hong Kong. One forgotten group of Vietnamese boat people were those who escaped by land across the Cambodian and Thailand border. They did not travel by boat, but they ended up at the same camps just like those who braved the seas. Music is from the movie Passchendaele. Tags: paul, gross, after, the, war, vietnam, viet, nam, xin, Đừng, quên, tôi, thuyền, nhân, cambodia, thailand, passchendaele, granako, Author: granako |
