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Banthad is my childhood refugee camp sanctioned by the UNHCR during the years of the Vietnamese boat people (1980s - 1990s). My childhood life were mostly hopping through many refugee camps. I stayed the longest in Banthad camp. This camp was built near the much bigger Site II refugee camp for the Cambodians who had stayed there years earlier.

After some trials of searching the net, maps and documents, using Google Earth I have found the old Banthad camp. Here it is:
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**See my journal for close-up of the location in relation to Site 2 camp in view

I recall the word "Ban Thad" means "Home Mountain" when we were explained by the Thai officials there in the camp.

Some pictures from my friend who also lived in this camp:

**Ca Doa`n (Banthad Church's Choir)


**The Mass


**The old friend - yes, the person in blue pants and T-shirt is wearing the very common standard-issue clothing provided by the UNHCR. All people who came through this life of a refugee should remember these well.

Anyone who wants a copy of the picture above in higher resolution, please use contact form in my profile and let me know your email. Of course, I want to know a bit more details why you want a copy also.

Here are some more pics of the camp life by another friend from the same camp:


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Hello Vietnam - BanThad
General @ Entertainment - Jul 11, 2008 2:45am - Views (12266) - ( Unrated )
Hello Vietnam by Pham Quynh Anh. A new amazing young artist.



Tell me all about this name, that is difficult to say
It was given me the day I was born

Want to know about the stories of the empire of old
My eyes say more of me than what you dare to say

All I know of you is all the sights of war
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar

One day I'll touch your soul
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam

Tell me all about my color, my hair and my little feet
That have carried me every mile of the way

Want to see your house, your streets. Show me all I do not know
Wooden sampans, floatings markets, light of gold

All I know of you is the sights of war
A film by Coppola, the helicopter's roar

One day I'll touch your soul
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam

And Buddha's made of stone watch over me
My dreams they lead me through the fields of rice
In prayer, in the light...I see my kin
I touch my tree, my roots, my begin...

One day I'll touch your soul
One day I'll finally know your soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello... Vietnam

One day I'll walk your soil
One day I'll finally know my soul
One day I'll come to you
To say hello...Vietnam
To say hello...Vietnam
To say xin cha`o...Vietnam.

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