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These photographs were sent back, and the New Zealand press for some reason didn’t publish them at the time. I felt they should have been published because I thought they said something about the nature of this war, that the New Zealand public should have known about.
Dr. Laurie Barber. New Zealand Army visiting
chaplain in Vietnam and military historian
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'They bombed our village. They hit the school. Most of the children
died quickly but some came running burning from the stuff in the bombs, Napalm. We had no houses, no food, no animals, and not many of our family. They made us
go and live in a different place surrounded by barbed wire. We couldn't go home.'
South Vietnamese woman
'We tried to live our lives, sometimes soldiers from the North came and took our food and hid in the tunnels we built under the village in case we were bombed. If we didn’t let them they would have killed us. Then the others came and killed some of us because we had sheltered the soldiers. Our rice fields had been destroyed, there was no food.'
A Vietnamese refugee who came to live in NZ
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This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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