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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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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"toi" means "you"
"moi" means "me"
if the combination is a slang expression, I don't know it
Always mine
You and me
I think you mean: "De moi si tu m'aime". In English: It's from me if you love me.
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Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? in French means "Do you want to sleep with me?" in English.
It can mean either "I want to kiss you too" or "I want to hug you too" depending on the situation/context.
Me, my darling (boy) call me
Moi can be many things, depending on where you place accent marks. Moi can be lips, each, new, etc.
"moi" in French means "me" in English
It means "Create new"
c'est moi means "it's me" in English.
Donnez-moi in French means give me in English
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"Pour moi" means "for me" in French.
Dites-moi means tell me.
Moi = "Me" (or "I" in some cases)
moi aussi means 'me too' in French.
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