Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990157415

Many of them are former soldiers who staked their lives in defense of the United States interests in Vietnam. While the United States has been able to resettle tens of thousands of these brave individuals. we cannot rest until our moral obligation is fully satisfied. Anyone who wants to know if there are reeducation camp victims left can go to site 2 along the ThaiCambodian border. a sprawling camp of 120.000 refugees. predominantly Cambodians. In a tiny sector of this camp. penned in by two thin strips of barbed wire. lives 4.300 Vietnamese who crossed Cambodia by foot and who now find themselves surrounded by their traditional enemies. the Cambodians. Fortunately. because all of the residents of the camp have a common traitthey have fled Vietnamese persecutionthese "foot people" are able to exist with only isolated incidents of intimidation from their Khmer neighbors. The head of this small refugee delegation. Huynh Pham. spent 8 years in reeducation camp before he slipped out of Vietnam a couple of years ago. Or go to Hong Kong. to the Argyle Transit Camp. and meet Bui Van Hoan who fled Vietnam by boat this past summer.
Keywords matched
refugee refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Cambodians
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
MARK HATFIELD
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
OR
Gender
M
Date
1986-03-04
Speech ID
990157415
Paragraph
#0
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