Musical Story Blog (48) - My Story - Tuan's story

Rupert Neudeck Cap Anamour German humanitarian

One of the countless fishing vessels rescued by Cap Anamur in 1979 and beyond Source: WDR

The strange voyage of 28 attempts fleeing Vietnam for freedom and new life, Tuan's story is more than the record of fail trip or the blizzard reunification with the communist officer who badly abused him in prison, but also the lesson about the resilience, the tolerance, the cost of freedom, and the endeavour for a Vietnam freedom.


After the fall of Saigon, many millions of people from the South of Vietnam faced harassment, discrimination, suppression, and revenge just because they were people who lived their lives under the Republic of Vietnam Government.

Their fates were upsides.

Tuan a student of Literature University from the South missed the boat fleeing Vietnam on which taken his father, his brother and his best friend.

Coming back to finish his last year of his Literature University study which at the time has been closed down and its students have been transferred to study Education, Tuan's life had hit a corner.

On the day of Graduation Ceremony, Tuan was refused to receive his certificate of bachelor degree and his name was crossed of of the announcement as a graduated student regardless his result as summa cum laude graduation.

It is the beginning of his strange life with 28 attempts to flee Vietnam and the unification with the communist officer who had abused him badly in prison at the refugee camp in Philippine 


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