Many of the they who had not achieved his aim. They who lost everything in their homeland because of the Vietnamese war, sold the last wealth in order to be able to get on the small wood ship occasionally together more one hundred people at the same time, betting in the smallest possibility available.
They were robbed, were raped, and were killed by the pirate in the South China Sea. Another part was tossed about helplessly because of the storm, ran out of the fuel and foundered just like that. They who succeeded in being safe then spent time until several months in the open sea, remained temporary had the colleague a trip that was sick or died was hungry.
This a piece related that was not possible to disappear with time. The Galang Island name apparently was not so popular in compared secularly Batam. But, the Support kept the memory of the history 250 thousand more Vietnamese refugees. Definitely the Support will also become the island that will not be forgotten for them who had lived in the barren island. How the condition for the Support at this time? Would kah became the cultural tourist attraction for Batam?
The trip to Galang Island was begun in the middle hot his trick matahari.Dengan used the bus, we were with former Culture and Tourism Minister Megawati's cabinet, looked around the tourist attraction in Kepualauan Riau. One of them the Vietnamese camp in Galang Island.
Galang Island currently with the Batam Island and the Island of Rempang becomes one unity of the authority that was acknowledged as Barelang (Batam-Rempang-Galang). Before arriving in the Vietnamese location, the resident who wanted to arrive in the camp will pass the area of the Kuning Face where being gotten the biggest region of the electronic industry in Batam.
Increasingly entered refugees's territory, the atmosphere was so cool. Suddenly was seen a small pillar by the name of Humanity Statue. From the explanation near the statue, was written that the statue was erected by the refugees to remember the disaster that struck a woman named Tinh Nhan that was raped by the fellow refugees in the location where the statue was currently. Tinh Nhan the not old suicide afterwards.
Was not far from the human statue on the left was gotten the area of the Ngha Trang funeral. Gotten 503 graves that were allocated were good for that Buddhis and Christian. In the main gate was gotten a pillar be inscribed ”dedicated to the people who died in the sea ounce the way to freedom.
That was interesting when entering the territory, there was the legacy of several of refugees's former boats that were lifted to the land as the memory of the struggle to live that was better. Most of refugees's camps were indeed restored again like the former prison, the hospital belonging to UNHCR and the boat, in fact the former UNHCR office was made the small museum, but unfortunately the barracks of these refugees were left broken was involved the tall grass and the crop crept like that was seen by me in the Support camp 2
The area of the Vietnamese settlement currently becomes the conservation territory as the museum was open utuk the public. This place also was proof to the world that Indonesia had the high commitment in upholding the values of humanity that was important in the history of modern civilisation in South-East Asia.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
thank God, they are safe and have sufficient attention and treatment from the goverment
Post a Comment