Page 279 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

They moved out from the village in the darkness midnight. After
two weeks of walking and hiding Vietminh, they came into Hai-
Phong city where French soldiers still controlled and slowly
withdraw their troops toward South Vietnam.

Nguyen's family was one of the million families left North
Vietnam moving toward South Vietnam with helping of French
and America planes and ships. His family lived in the Nha-
Trang city one year than 1956 his parent moved all family
member to Ban-Me-Thuot city. It was a high-land and beautiful
green mountains, forest and coffee plantations. After Nguyen
graduated high school at Nguyen-Truong-To High School in
Ban-Me-Thuot city, his parent let him going to Saigon to learn
about laws. He was chosen to learn of the letters. He enjoyed his
youth dreams while the Second Indochina War was slowly and
continued spreading out on the Southland to threaten the
people's lives by Vietcong, the true name of Vietnamese
Communist Party from the Northside Vietnam...

In North Vietnam, the people found their life threatened
under the Communist regime and extremely harsh. Its rules were
crueler than the time of Chinese and French occupations.

The mid-1950s, Vietnamese Communist Party, opened the
Public Court anywhere, and officials urged the poorer people to
denounce their loyalty in public trial village. Sometimes they
have killed their prosperous neighbors, and each village had the
new "Class enemies" for the poorer people denouncing them.
Therefore many thousand of the new enemies were killed on the
public trial, and a hundred thousand were driven out from their
farms or sent to the labor camps.

In South Vietnam, Prime Minister Ngo-Dinh-Diem became
the First President Vietnam by the referendum on Vietnamese
people on October 23, 1955. With the help of the United States,
South Vietnam became the development part and growing.

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