Decades. Her class lasts about an hour. Today were going to talk about topic 18 which is Southeast Asian refugee migrations. If youve been following the news, i imagine, you like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea, refugees are suffocating in meat trucks, theyre crowding onto leaky boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety, are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, its been difficult to ignore the public response t
Witnessed one of the worst crimes of the 20th century the massacre of thousands of bosnian. Special coverage of the 25th anniversary of the sort of genocide on and just. Their identity ok today on the stool were going to look at how the country successfully trickled to climb the virus and the constant welcome to the stream templi. My name is custom else and im the assistant to the director of health so im a former journalist and ive been helping my director and the chief epidemiologist focus their message to the people. So its been a its been a quite a right here and i think i cant wait to talk to you all about it but look were looking forward to hearing about it valley in welcome to the streaming to the south tell our global audience. Thank you for having me my name is. Im a post usher researcher based in saigon and looking at vietnamese integration and Business Response during 90 right to have you on this james and welcome michael to the string tell everybody. Thanks to me my its my
Good evening from the tv this is a series of programs of Pulitzer Prize winner and historian David Marinus Roberto Clemente and Vince Lombardi. And then began their 1977 and received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting 1983 and has appeared on the tv and has traveled the world we will revisit the trip to kenya also the history in 19 sixties that first in 2002 and then to margin to send night this is a book about the vietnam war and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Here is David Maraniss. A rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Thirtyfive years ago the 28th infantry regiment were ambushed here 61 were killed many injured. The university of wisconsin madison 35 years ago they tried to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. Held a demonstration that turned violent. The new book titled they marched into sunlight the author is David Maraniss. You write in the epilogue is as reflected in the book quick. It means im not trying to make a specific point i believe history i
Indian reservation along Wounded Knee Creek were engaged in events specific to the age that resonate far beyond in the spirit of the oppression of certain peoples by federal troops. Wounded knee occurred in 1890, and the true blue saloon we will encounter today. It is the name of a particular bar at which american sailors were assaulted in the country of chile, specifically in valparaiso, chile, which is a major port along the Pacific Coast of chile. I want us to consider the ways in which the United States army and navy were envisioning their future. We were already considering over the past several presentations the ways in which the armed forces, especially certain elements of the officer corps, were anticipating great power conflict. A fair degree of anxiety infused their beliefs. Now, historians dont have any radically or persuasively clear understanding of exactly why americans of this age were so anxietyridden but at precisely the same time that there was tremendous optimism and
Participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1979 which this evening we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later ps in 1996. M the cor please join me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation evacuatedind when we the marines. 77 helicopters took to the air and accomplish that mission and we had great marine corps pilots making that happen. Unfortunately, like a lot of operations, it did not go with