Khúc Minh
Thơ Oral History
Vietnamese-language interview with Khuc Minh Tho, President of the
FVPPA (Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association), and board
member of The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation. She recalled how
Vietnamese American organizations petitioned the Vietnamese Communist
government to free all political prisoners after the war to allow them to settle
in US. The request was denied and the new Vietnamese government claimed that
"there were no political prisoners in Vietnam." Since then, she has
organized in an attempt to free the remaining prisoners of war and has been
deeply involved community organizing.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital
Archive. http://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net Interviews were conducted by the
Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral
Histories Project. The interviewee has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage
Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials and it is being
made available for non-profit educational use.
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of
producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short
documentary, Master Hoa's Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in
the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search
for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a
boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.
http://www.vietnameseamerican.org/
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