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With 67 other refugees, Nguyen Phuong Thuy, 15, slipped out of Viet Nam in a 33-ft. boat. The craft was well into the Gulf of Thailand and the presumed zone of safety when it was attacked, not by pursuing Vietnamese but by a vessel carrying eight Thai fishermen. The pirates kidnaped Thuy and another young girl, then sank the refugees' boat with the rest of the Vietnamese still clinging to it. "I can't forget the look on my little sister Tran's face when she slipped below the water," Thuy said later. "I still...
...Nguyen Phuong Thuy is not alone. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), women on 81 % of the boats reaching Thailand in the first nine months of 1981 were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in front of their relatives; another 200 were carried off to other fishing vessels. The attackers, many of them carriers of venereal diseases, often left the women infected as well as brutalized. Many victims became pregnant. A report to the relief agency CARE by a doctor who worked at the Songkhla camp...
Says Vietnamese-born Psychiatrist San Duy Nguyen: "Many have symptoms of depression, but if you consider the hardships they endured you would expect a higher incidence of men tal health problems...
After graduation, Nguyen faces medical school ("hope-fully") and probably more financial aid. And he says although "it's a pain to apply for financial aid every year, it's worth...
...eliminate at least one year's worth of college expenses, Nguyen enrolled in college courses during high school, and "loaded up" on extra courses during the school years and summer terms. As a result, he now expects to graduate in three years instead of four...