1:27:01
We know that we only have freedom
if we fight for it.
1:27:05
But here we fight for what?
1:27:09
We fight for prisons?
1:27:11
[Speaking French]
1:27:16
[Translator] People can be arrested
at any moment by any organization.
1:27:23
And then tortured in inhuman ways
in all the prisons.
1:27:28
And, above all, in police stations.
1:27:35
And then imprisoned
for years and years without trial.
1:27:39
Their only crime
is loving their country.
1:27:44
They had the courage
to tell the truth.
1:27:47
They asked for the liberation
of political prisoners.
1:27:53
They asked for an end to the war.
1:27:57
They asked for peace,
for national reconciliation.
1:28:01
And all that is considered a crime
by the government of Thieu.
1:28:06
[Speaking Vietnamese]
1:28:12
[Translator]
I was arrested in 1968.
1:28:14
I was at home
when the security police came.
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They took me to headquarters
for a few questions...
1:28:22
and kept me.
1:28:30
You can't imagine
how badly I was beaten.
1:28:33
Mostly on the head.
My eyes are bad now.
1:28:37
After I was arrested,
I was beaten so badly...
1:28:41
even now
I sometimes have headaches...
1:28:43
and nosebleeds and ear-bleeds.
1:28:49
In those days, all we were
getting to eat was rotten fish,
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so we asked
for some vegetables.
1:28:55
But when we complained,
we were beaten and chained...
1:28:58
and lime powder
was thrown on us.