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And all that is considered a crime
by the government of Thieu.
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[Speaking Vietnamese]
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[Translator]
I was arrested in 1968.
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I was at home
when the security police came.
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They took me to headquarters
for a few questions...
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and kept me.
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You can't imagine
how badly I was beaten.
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Mostly on the head.
My eyes are bad now.
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After I was arrested,
I was beaten so badly...
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even now
I sometimes have headaches...
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and nosebleeds and ear-bleeds.
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In those days, all we were
getting to eat was rotten fish,
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so we asked
for some vegetables.
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But when we complained,
we were beaten and chained...
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and lime powder
was thrown on us.
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And they poured water on us,
and we had nowhere to run.
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Our cells were this big...
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and we could do nothing
but stand where we were...
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and get the water
and the lime all over us.
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Some of us lost our teeth
and our hair.
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And when the lime got wet,
it just boiled up, bubbling all over us.
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Our hair fell out and our skin
became covered with sores.
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They said that
if we were innocent,
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they would beat us
until we were guilty,
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and that if we were guilty,
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they would beat us
until we repent.
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In a country where the people
don't hold national sovereignty,
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in a country where
the government has proven itself...
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to be the enemy of the people,