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Philippines Bataan Photo by Maps123 DSC_9877.jpg
Plaque listing names of overseas Vietnamese and wooden entrance marking the Vietnamese Memorial Park entrance.

USA San Jose Viet Museum photo by hamiltonhistoricalrecords img_7480 copy.jpg
Boat replica memorial and monument of gratitude located at the Viet Museum or the Museum of the Boat People & the Republic of Vietnam. This is a museum focused on the experience of Vietnamese Americans and their journey from Vietnam to the United…

Canada Calgary Photo by Calgary Vietnamese Canadian Association journey-to-freedom-park.jpg
The Journey to Freedom Park and monument will be built at the gateway to International Avenue in southeast Calgary, will commemorate the Vietnamese people will lost their lives while fleeing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the years following the…

Canada Vancouver Photo by Ted McGrath 48688140121_e3dcc7df01_o.jpg
Bronze sculpture commemorates the Vietnamese boat people who sought freedom, democracy and safety in Canada.

Canada Mississauga Photo by Cristina Vasilenco f090c3aa709ca0ca34fc908f70f53537_-ontario-regional-municipality-of-peel-mississauga-vietnamese-boat-people-monument-905-820-2376html.jpg
Monument; description of the building process is available here https://damtrungphan.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/vietnamese-boat-people-memorial-monument-project-in-mississauga-canada-completion-after-5-years-of-hard-work/

Canada Ottowa Photo by Phan The Trung vietnamstatueottawa.jpg
Monument titled "Refugee Mother and Child." According to the sculptor, this was the first memorial in the world dedicated to the Vietnamese Boat People. It was installed on April 30, 1995 for the City of Ottawa, Canada and located in the park at the…

Indonesia Pulau Galang Photo by AVBP Bt2.jpg
Memorial of two preserved boats used by refugees to reach Galang Island in 1996. At the time, the boats were deliberately sunk as a form of protest over policies that repatriated about 5,000 refugees who did not pass the required tests.

Indonesia Pulau Galang Photo by AVBP plaque1.jpg
At the site of a former refugee camp, now a tourist destination, a demolished memorial dedicated to Vietnamese boat people who perished by sea or during resettlement and in gratitude for the efforts of the UNHCR, Red Cross, Indonesian Red Crescent…

Malaysia_Pulau_Galang_01.jpg
Site of a demolished memorial dedicated to Vietnamese boat people who perished by sea or during resettlement and in gratitude for the efforts of the UNHCR, Red Cross, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, other world relief organizations, the Malaysian…

Kuku Island Photo by C. Hoppen in-story-our-stories-kuku-islands-carina-and-daughter.jpg
Preserved boat memorial with identification VT 706 and plaque dedicated to Vietnamese boat people who perished in the Anambas region of Indonesia.
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