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...idea of getting out is like a dream--they crowd 50 to 100 prisoners in a 12 by 30-foot room with one small window. I desperately wanted to be transfered to a re-education camp with heavy labor so I could see the sun," Nguyen Huu-Hieu says of his year in a Vietnamese political prison...
Without explanation, Hanoi released Hieu and fellow prisoner Doan Van Toai from prison in late 1977. Since then, the two have traveled through Europe, Canada, and most recently, the United States, describing the horrors of Vietnamese prison life and urging Western nations to condemn the Vietnamese government for human rights violations...
...year-old Toai spent 28 months in prison for refusing to serve on the Finance Committee of the National Liberation Front (NLF), the South Vietnamese revolutionary group that helped overthrow former President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hieu, a former Buddhist monk, was forced to renounce Buddhism by the Vietnamese Communist leaders in 1975. He joined the political opposition to the government, and was arrested in 1976 as part of a mass roundup of former religious leaders...
...French ministry of foreign affairs pays travel and living expenses of Vietnamese students in France, Hieu said, adding that he hopes the U.S. government will set up a similar program...
...Hieu added that the war resulted in the relocation of many Vietnamese universities, a serious setback for research and education...