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This Is A First Hand Account of South Vietnam Under Vietnam Communist Party (VCP) Rule

Original in Vietnamese by a Vietnamese - with Pen Name "Pho Thuong Dan" (Literally Means Second Class Citizen) - Who Was Born, Raised and Has Lived in South Vietnam All His/Her Life

Titled : Toi Thay Va Nghe Duoc Gi o Sai Gon va Mien Nam

Sau 33 Nam Duoi Che Do Cong San

http://thongtin.brinkster.net/diendan/toithayvangheduocgiosaigon.htm

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Original Titled in Translated English

"What I Have Seen and Heard in Saigon and South Vietnam

After 33 Years Under VCP Rule"

First Roegh Translated English Version Based on the Article Above - by Zenom

Titled "I've Seen and Heard"

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I've Seen - Yes I Have Indeed

On the Surface, Saigon Has Been Changing

5 Star Luxurious Hotels on Tourist Streets

Feeding With "Humonguous" Restaurants

Lush "Relax" Hang-Outs as Lan Anh Club

With Sumptuous Dance Floors as of Hanoi New Century

I've Seen Private Schools with American Names

With American Teachers, American Curriculums to Match

And - OfCourse - 1000 American Dollar Monthly Fee

Reserved For American Dollar Stuffed Social Class

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I've Also Learned These Refuge Places

Comforting the "Red" Off-Springs

The New-Changed Riches in Chained Connections

Backed With Red Power Flushed with Dollars

Here the Stop-Over For "Relaxing"

Have a Few Drinks and Gambling Away Some of The Catch

Placing Some Bet and Enjoying Young Girls

Ordering Few Expensive Import Brandy Bottles

VSOP, XO Are Nothing Much

Throwing Down a Few Thousands Dollars is the Norm

While A Month Salary of Teacher Not Enough for One XO

Few Million Dollar Bet of PMU18 as Model ...

All Night - Kids of Easy Riches Shake and Dance

Polices Close Down One Night - Then Next Night Reopen

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Yes - I've Seen Saigon

People, People, People ,,,On Crowded Streets

Boxed Traffics in UnBreathable Air

Few High-Rise Buildings Stand Awry

From afar These Boxes Looking Cheap

Multi-Story Street Houses with Modern Styles

Built With Expensive Import Stuffs

Even Alley Houses Are Little Towers

Formed as a Bunches of Weeds

Protruding Out or Recessing In as Owners Wish

Public Spaces Used as Private Land

Looking As Crooked Teeth on Curvy Mouth

Oh Saigon Bustling With Combustion Engines

Day and Night Drilling into Habitant Heads

3 Millions Hondas and Cars Spew off Smokes

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Yes, I've seen The Out-Dated Sewage System

Each Rain Fall is a Little Flood

Waste Disposal Services Are Just Loudsy

For This Canned City of 8 Millions Habitants

Ah - Made in VietNam Foreign Merchandises

All Over the Places - Sitting Along with contra-Band stuffs

Socialism is Submissive to Free Market Economy

Made in China Honda Along with Much Cheaper Look-Alikes

Cigarettes, Beer - Import or Domestic - All Available

Drunk Eating and Smoking Are the Most Popular Social Acts

Communist Members Cadres - The Rulers - Drink and Eat

So Do The Old, The Young - Even Children Learn To Act

Smoking is even More Sociable

The Once Peasant Yellow-Teeth Cadre - now the Ruler

No More Smoking with Hand-Rolled Tobacco

A Pack of Craven-A or 555 in Shirt Pocket is Their Badge

Leaders Smoke, Officials Smoke, Citizens Smoke ...

10 Year Olds also Learn to Smoke with Pride

A Lucrative Market For Foreign Producers

Top Brass Wearing Western Style Dressings

Pant, Shirt and Tie - Driving Flashy Cars

But The OutFit Can Not Hide Their Self

Crooked Teeth, Whiten Hair, Brittle Skin...

Still A Cocky Arrogant Peasant in the City

Yea, I've Seen - as I'm Seeing Right Now

My Dirty Poor Fellow Country Men - Women - Children

On Their "Transportation" Bikes

Carrying Carton, Nylon Wastes

Piling Up High as a Circus Act

Street Old women - Street Young Boys Supposed in School seat

Crawling War Veterans with Lost Arms or Legs

Selling Lottery Tickets as a Form of Begging

Look - Those Children Searching a Heap of City Trashes

Picking up Nylon Bags, Cola Cans, Beer Bottles ...

wretched-Clothed Boys Waiting in Front Eating Outlets

Ambushing Left-Overs Even Before Eaters standing up

try Hard To Fill Their Empty Stomaches

Across the Street Are Boys with Lost Innocent Eyes

Soliciting Crowd of PasserBys

Do Shoe-Shine Job for Few Pennies

I've Seen - Did I Tell You - I 've Seen

Poor Little Girls Muscle Their Tiny Strength

Pushing Wheeled Carts With sitting Cold Tourists

Over the sand Dunes - Which They Called "Flying Sand Hill"

Asking Why Not Going to School, Dearest Little Girl ?

Answer that No School Possible with Empty Stomach

And There - SorrowFul Faces of These Mothers

With Pale Sick Baby in Arms

Waiting All Morning in Public "Hospital"

Submissively Silent Before Hospital Staff Shouting

There Are Story of "Cho Ray" Hospital

where Mothers coming to Sell Their Own Blood

This Blood Money is Hope of saving Their Child Life

as Described by Novelist Tran Hung Dao

Over-Heard a waiting mother NearBy

"This is a Standard Unwritten Hospital Policy"

"No Money - No "Free" Health Care service for the Poors"

"Each Step of Getting to Doctor required an unofficial Fee"

"Will to Live Needs Money - As Well as Will to Die"

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I've Seen a Changed Saigon - as "Transform" it Is

With Palatial Hotels and Rich Dollar Clubs

With Expensive Stuff Shops as Flashing Diamond Show-Cases

With Colossal Restaurants and Wide Dance Floors To Match

With Monster Houses Built with exorbitant Import Stuffs

and Manicured BackYard Suitable for Old Day King to Impress

with high-priced Flashy Cars Wandering Smoky Streets

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These "Civilization of VietNam" Blindly Exclaim !11

Pho Thuong Dan Puzzle : What Civilization ???

Isn't THAT Education, Health Care

and Material Must Go along with Spiritual

For Majority of Population with Reasonable Life QUALITY ?

By the Numbers - the Economist of 2007

VietBam Head GDP is 555 $US

Ahead of Cambodia by a Bit

While ThaiLand 2550 - Philippine 1040

Indonesia 1160 - Singapore 24840

These Numbers Speak of the TRUTH

Then How to Understand These Ahead Changes ?

Who Are "Owners" of That "Kind of Civilizations"

As Everyone Already Knows - with Complete Agreement

Current or Retired or Ex Cadres in Communist Party

Their Off-Springs and Their Relatives..

In Rural VietNam - Who Are the Rich, Land Owners ?

Is THAT These New Riches Are Such Talented BusinessPersons

While Working Full Time for Government - as Public Servants

Well..Just a Lament - Every Know Where these Dirty Riches From 1

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The Face of Rural South VietNam

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By Seeing with my Own Eyes

By Hearing With my own Ears

The Real Face of South VietNam is Clear

To Be Truly Objective

Write Only What Seen and heard

By Visting the Places

Hydro Available in Rural Towns and Nearby Villages

Others still in the Dark of Past

Major Roads Has Improved Some What

Trails leading into Distant Villages

Surfaces Covering with Concrete Slabs

Hondas, Bicycles Can Narrowly Ride Through

Bamboo Bridges Replaced by Lumber, Concrete

Community Out-Houses on rivers Disappeared

There, Houses Along Can Tho river

Some Brick, Some Metal Sheet Co-Exist with Huts

Same Picture on Long Ho River Banks

Pretty Much the same Scene Else Where

With Minor Color, Size, Shape Variations

Still Rain Season Travel is Ever Tough

Roads to Towns My Tho, Cao Lanh, Chau Doc

Ha Tien, Rach Gia, Can Tho Towns

With The Most Notable Change

Houses, Eateries, Shops Occupied Road Sides

Traffic Noises Mixed With Crowds of People

First Impression : Breathing Air Choked the Country Side

Gone Were the Green Green Orchards

Or Still Exist Father Away From the Roads

No More Natural Beauty of the Past

Where Were Greens Gtreens of Mango Trees

Had Cooled Cai Be, An Huu in Recent Past

Where Were "Hong Dao" Plum Trees of Trung Luong

Once Greeted Visitors with Aromatic Air for Several Miles

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Some Lovelinesses of "Mien Tay" May Be Gone Forever

Only Exist in Our Memory or in Song as this One Below

Chiec Ao Ba Ba - Huong Lan

http://www.imeem.com/people/H_J22IH/music/XuyavBid/huong_lan_chiec_ao_ba_ba/

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SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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There Villages on Canal Vinh Te

Joining the River of Tien Giang

Daily Life of People Same as the Past

Water Used for Drinking, Cooking

Also water Where Out-Houses built on Top

Still the Same River as in the Past

Lang Cham - also Called "Cha Chau Giang"

The Name Poor Stayed as ever

These Rickety Boats Are People Houses

Also Used as a Fish Farm

The Scene Seems Quite Popular

Extending as Far as You Can See

Along Tributaries of "Tien" and "Hau" Rivers

No More the Lovely Country Girls Found

"Quan Lanh - Ao Ba Ba' that Once They Worn

Rowing "Tam Ban" Boats - Beautiful Scene

Ask the "Cai Rang" Old Man Where They Gone

Told that Korea, Taiwan Now Their Life

But The Story not Only "Exile Marrying"

Some Were Forced into Brothel Houses

Some Were Mistreated as "Slave Wifes"

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Mass Poverty Never Been That Cruel

By "Tuoi Tre" Newspaper in VietNam

65,000 Viet Young Girls

Lived with Taiwanese Old Men

or Taiwanese Handicaps - or Taiwanese Retards

Even More on Degrading Treatments Were Reported

In 1 "illegal" Marriage Service

Tens of Young Girls "Show Their Wares" for 2 Korean Men

Other 118 Standing, Sitting ... For Their Turns

Other Report of over 60 Girls From "Tay Nam Bo"

Off They go to Saigon for "Competition"

Aged from 18 to 20

The Future Korean Grooms have the "Right"

To Take Close Looks of These Poor Young Girls Body

And These Degrading Services were Booming Businesses !!!

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VNCS ban nguoi VIET

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/Vietnam/TL4KVFC74LOLUJ45J

10,000 $US De Di "Lao Dong Xuat Khau" ?

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/Vietnam/T7QVHM4E74I6HKVPN

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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Pho Thuong Dan I Have seen

One Day on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street

At a Major "Legal" Marriage Sercices Business

Crowd of Couples Line Up For Emmigrate

Wifes Are Young Girls Mostly From "Tay Nam Bo"

Husbands are "Over the Hill" Asians

One is Handicap - and No Reasonably Young Husband

Parallel to This Lucrative Business

There Exist Numeruous "Illegal - Exile" Services

These Illegals Here Actually "Human Smuggling" Operatives

Young Children and Young Girls Are Their Merchandises

Sold to Brothel Houses in cambodia ThaiLand, Macau ...

Children - Girls and Boys - Trained to be Sexual Slaves

Young Innocent Girls Forced into Prostitution

or Sold as Slaves of Ancient Past

These Crimes Against Humanity Can NOT Exist Easily

But Under Close Protection From VietNam Polices

Their Criminal Activities Are Wide Spread and Quite Open

As Seen Weekly - Even Daily Sometimes - in Public Eyes

in Binh Thanh District, 11th District of Saigon

"Legal" or "Illegal"

With Official Blessings or With Unofficial Blessings

"Legal" Apply With Police For Permit - Pay Official Fee

"Illegal" Pay "Fee" Directly to Polices In Charge

and "Illegal" Openly Operate as the "Legal" One

The Final Outcomes Are About the SAME

For Victims of The "Legal" Services

Lot of Vietnamese "Wifes" in Taiwan and Korea

Are Badly Treated Without Merci

Day Works Are Hard Labor

Night Works Are Sexual Slaves

Then Later Sold to Brothel Houses

To Recover The Cost of Buying These Slaves

(Reference : Viet Wife SOS Centre of Father Hung in Taiwan)

For Victims of The "Illegal" Services

Sold Directly to Brothel Houses - Without Time Lost

The Tragedies Shake and Move Humanity

Ex Cambodian PM Sihanouk Call Out the Victims to Return Home

While VCP _ As Usual - Keep Silent on Viet Tragedies

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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I've Seen and I've Heard

Why Such Tragedy Upon Plentiful "Tay Nam Bo" ?

What Forced These Gentle and Beautiful Young Girls

Leaving Their Family and This Lovely Land

Shouldn't Their Parents Know Better ?

Don't They Know Wolves Already Preying On Their HomeTown Viets

What is So Powerful Then ?

Pushing Them into Uncharted Danger Land !!!

Exception of Cases Luring by Common Con Men

These Innocent Girls Left with Their "Own Will"

They Even Have To Borrow

Enough Money to Pay For the Adventure

Money to Beautify Themselve For Sale

Money For Bribery to Be on the List

The "Privileges" of "Exile Marriage" Roll

To Marry unknown Korean Taiwanese Men

Now the Causes Are Much More Complex

Pho Thuong Dan I Humbly Observe

Too Many "Thuy Loi" Becoming "Thuy Hai"

"Thuy Loi" Means Positive Irrigation

"Thuy Hai" Are Disastrous Irrigation

Numeruous Haphazard Industrialied Projects

Unplanned Urbanization with Fishy Motive

With High Population Growth By Birth Rate

and Flux of People From Northern an Central Regions

While Farm Land Narrowing by the Day

Poverty is Inevitable

No Job, No Future Are Realities

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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I've Seen and Heard with All My 5 Senses

There Are Cases of Parent's Pressure Poor Youths

Social Morality at the Lowest Point

Destructive Education is the Culprit

As Seen Injustice Prevailing EveryWhere

Poverty is the Consequence

This Cruelty is so Powerful

Pushing These Lovely Girls to the Dead End

And Here is one way of survival

Close Their Eyes and Close Their Ears

Numb All Their 5 Senses to Mask the Pain

Jumping on the "Exile-Marriage" Train

Mekong Delta is Land of Plenty

Can Bring Food For the Whole Country

After 32 Years of Dang CSVN Rule

ThenIts People Going Hungry ???

By the Ruler Statistic

For the Year 1998

Mekong Delta was 37% Poor

While Red Delta of the North is 29

As time go by to 2002

The Plenty Southern Delta Less Poor at 13

Comparing to the Red North at 9

The Ruler Number Pretty Good

But REALITY is Not Matching Well

Since Mekong People Still Deadly Poor

Then How We Can Know the Truth

Lam Van Be, a Scientist Observe

Poor on Food - Then Poor on Culture and Home

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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I've Seen and Heard With My Heart

Here is Account of Mass Poverty in South VietNam

Not By Cold Numbers

But By Witness Eyes and Witness Ears

VietNam Poors in "Properous" City as well as in Distant Villages

The Poor Constantly Live By Hand and Mouth

Never Know Where, How and When the Next Meal

Poor Farmer House With Ever Present Leaky Roof

Each Rain Fall is a Run For Cover

Finding A Dry Corner is a Hit or Miss

Covering Trembling Body With Ragged Blanket

Against Cold Wind Blowing All Over

Poverty-stricken Folk Live by Borrowing

Whether Small Sum of Money or Few Bowls of Rice

But Never Repay it On Time

Young Man Poor is Warm Body With No Job

Let His Sick Father Withering To Nature Will

Mother Poor is Woman Rowing Little Canoe

Selling Corn For a Small Sum of Money

Never Enough To Feed 4 Little Children

Playing With Mud in Front of the Hut

Poor Remain Poor - One Generation to the Next

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The Face of Rural South VietNam (...continue)

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85% is the Farmer Number

Farm Land Not Enough For All

Turning Farmer to Factory Worker Not Realized

Mass Unemployed is a Certainty

Phd Le Dang Doanh, VietNam Senior Economist

Wrote on the Wide Wide Web

Poorer Farmer, Lesser Farm Land

A Millions Mure Mouths Each Year To Be Fed

Farmer Laboring on 8 Square Meter of Land

Poor Surely a Certainty

VietNam Economy Has Grown Some What

Comparing to Pre Free Market Time

But Conparing to Other Countries

VietNam Still Crawling Far Behind

Most Importantly is the Growth Quality

How National Wealth Distribute

Have These Money Benefit To the Mass

Using For Public Health Care, Education

Using For Job Creation

Such as Agriculture Developent

Build up National Infrastructures

or Just Meaningless Cold Big Numbers

Eaten Away by Corruption Virus

Nowaday - By Orders of Dang CSVN

For the Sake of So-Called "Development"

Building Industrial Parks, Tourist Complexes

On Farm Lands, People Lands, Ancestral Lands

On Religious Lands, Forest Lands, Park Lands

All By Using Brute Forces With No Mercy

People Fury Exploding Up Sky High

People From 19 Cities and Towns

Show Their Rages in Front of National Assembly Edifice

So Much For These Kinds of "Developments" !!!

I've Seen and I've Heard

33 Years Looking Back

The Red North Has "Giai Phong" is Their Mooto

"Giai Phong" Literally is to "Liberate"

Chase Saigoneses Out Of Their Home

Saigoneses Forced in the Back Alleys

Away the "Kinh Te Moi" - the "Hunger Zone"

By Any Means To Achieve Their "Red" Ends

"Giai Phong" Mekong Delta People

Out of the Nature-Blessed Land of Plenty

"Giai Phong" Soldiers, Officials of South VietNam

Away Their Home to Concentration Camps

or to the High Sea in Crilkety Boats

"Giai Phong" Mekong Delta Young Girls

Away From Their Land of Plenty

To Freely Exile of Being Slave-Wifes

or Freely of Being Prostitues in Cambodia, ThaiLand

33 Years Looking Back ...

VietNam Return to Slave Time of Ancient Age

Viet Girls Auctioned on Taiwan e-bay Site (2003)

Viet Girls in Show-Case of Singapore (2005)

By UNICEF and VietNam Ministry of Justice

Only 1 Single Year of 2005

400,000 Viet Young Women and Children Are Sold

33 Years Looking Back ...

By Words of Journalist Claude Allegre, L''expresse

Humanity Can Not Turn Deaf Ears on Khmer Rouge

These InHuman Acts in Genocide Camps

And VietNam Kmown as Less Inhuman

Under the Nationalist Flag

VietNam Brave Victory Against Colonist French, Super Power American

Hiding Under the Flag

A Bloody Brutal Regime Has Ruled The people

33 Years Looking Back ...

The Red North Ruling Machine

More Brutal and Oppressive than Ever

Surpassing the French Colonist Past

More Critical - VietNam on the Verge of Losing the "Country"

By Admission of Former Senior Communist Member

VietNam Are in Danger

Of losing "Country Identity"

Of Losing Lands, Seas, Nationality

Becoming a China Province

As I Always Remind You

I Have Seen and I Have Heard

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by Zenom - Written on May Days of 2008 on the Wide Wide World

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