From: knguyen@emr.ca (Khanh Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Prime time live/The Lost Genenration
Followup-To: alt.politics.vietnamese
Organization: emr
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:08:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.160042.2442@linus.mitre.org>, htran@elesium.mitre.org
(Hai Tran) wrote:
> 
> In article <86I.02qS30Ay01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> vqt00@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Married With Children) writes:
> >
> >In article <C07Dy5.KCE@news.iastate.edu> you write:
> >>
> >>	Did anyone see "Prime Time Live" on Thursday, December 31, 1992?
> >>There was a story about an Irish woman who is spending her time in Vietnam to
> >>help the needy people, especially the orphan children and those children who
> >>are born defected (without arms and legs). The story was very touching and I
> >>feel that those children do not deserve this kind of tragedy. The government of
> >>Vietnam is very insensitive to these children, and they apparently ignore this 
> >>problem. Does the government of Vietnam feel ashamed of themselves? I do not 
> >>think that they care.
> >
> >I feel that WE also ignore the problem.  Many of us feel that by helping
> >these poor kids, we help strengthen the communist government.  As a result
> >these poor kids go hungry.
> 
> 	Here is some perspective on what happened to the children in
> Vietnam.
> 
> 	After the takeover of South Vietnam, the government announced
> that the Party and Uncle Ho would take care of the children because
> they want to implement their policy:
> 
> 	"Vi` lo+.i i'ch mu+o+`i na(m, tro^`ng ca^y,
> 	Vi` lo+.i i'ch tra(m na(m, tro^`ng ngu+o+`i.
> 
> 	The political lessons we were taught were
> 
> 	"To enjoy the shade, start planting trees,
> 	To build Communism paradise, start molding people.

--

Maybe there is another interpretation for Ho's implying : It will take
some years for a tree to bear fruit, but it would need two or three
generations
to produce a real communist. This means that the adult and the young
generations
in 1975 in South Vietnam can't not be trustful and become revolutonaries.
The
party just concentrates on the very young kids or next generation to build
a
truly socialist society.

In brief, they only concern about the third or next one (each generation is
about 30 years) of the South Vietnam.

---
 
> 	The children were then organized into the Pionner Youth
> Leagues or Volunteer Organizations and at first, supported by the
> government. By about 1978, when the invasion of Cambodia was
> immminent, these Volunteer Organizations were sent to support the
> logistics effort.  
> 	
> 	The Pioneer Youth Leagues also began to unravel because
> of excessive political indoctrination and conscious effort to exloit
> the eagerness of these very young children by asking them to inform
> the authority of their parents hidden properties. (Aug. 1978, 2
> children were given awards for coming forward about their parents
> hiding their family precious items during the campaign of "Business
> Reforms" of 1976.)
> 
> 	During those years, the Hanoi regime still received a
> significant amount of foreign aid from the Soviet Union (estimated 1
> US Billion a year.) Starting with Gorbachev in 1985, these aids began
> to decrease and gradually disappears, the economy was in tatters
> because of corruption and incompetence. The children became the
> members of the Lost Generation. The Party members were only thinking
> about keeping their power and hoard up as fast as they can. They
> themselves were not sure how long their privileges would last.
> 
> 	Put yourself in the situations of these children. Every child
> wants to go to school, to learn, to play, to grow up. When they are
> abandoned by the authority and their family are also struggling for
> the daily meals, what do you think would become of them?
> 
> 	A REGIME SHOULD BE JUDGED ON HOW IT IS TAKING CARE OF THE
> UNDERPRIVELEGED IN THE SOCIETY, NOT ON ITS PROMISES.
> 
> 
> htran@mitre.org
> 
> 	  

Khanh Kim Nguyen
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