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This website is about Tuan Le.
Tuan Le is facing possible deportation after being arrested for punching a Vietnamese official during protests of a historic visit of Vietnamese communist Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on the June 21, 2005.
His case is a very touching story of human suffering and and it sheds light into the dominating fear that oppressive communist dictatorships have been able to impose on their own people in Vietnam, China, Cuba... The free-thinking spirit among the younger generations born after the war, due to continuous brain-washing and one-sided misinformation and government propaganda, is suppressed and weakened, if not destroyed. Those who risked their lives and successfully arrived on the lands of the free, such as America, then could slowly rebuild their lives and one day, find enough internal strength to reflect, confront and overcome their own FEAR.
Mr. Le managed to confront his own fear. His violent action, a momentary impulse taking place out of anger and deep resentment against the Vietnamese communist dictatorship, stands for the collective demanding for justice by many Amerasians and Vietnamese refugees. Yet, many of his Amerasians, despite their living in America for the past 15-20 years, still cannot bring themselves to confront their own FEAR. They are still afraid.
During my work on Amerasian issue, I have encountered so many who cried everytime telling their stories of suffering. But if you ask them to be the witness, to take a stand against those inhumane crimes done by the Vietnamese government, they will get panic.
Perhaps, one day the Amerasians and the Vietnamese Americna community will overcome their own FEAR and HATRED. Many Americans and Western people have repeatedly criticized the strong anti-communist sentiment among these people as a lack of forgiveness and vision, as well as a political barrier that prevents progress toward a normal bilateral relation between America and Vietnam. Yet they never seem to understand that in order for these people to overcome their own past, they must find enough courage to look straight into their own past and successfully confront their own fear and hatred. And this process requires those who are responsible for all those inhumane crimes to at least issue a sincere public apology and adjust their policies with respect for the basic human rights and freedom of their own people. And it also requires the media and mainstream public to understand the complex historical background of this issue in order to have meaningful & productive dialogues. Only then, the healing process would truly begin.
Tuan Le will not be deported.
That's what we determine to fight for.
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