For many Americans, the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago this week with the fall of Saigon. But for the South Vietnamese who fought against the North, the years following the American withdrawal brought humiliation and oppression. South Vietnamese soldiers were forced to enter re-education camps where they were subjected to hard labor and endured horrible living conditions.

Quyen Throng, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, emigrated from Ho Chi Min City to Connecticut 15 years ago. Her father spent seven years in a re-education camp. She has created a series of paintings based on her father’s stories of life in the camp.

In this radio diary, Quyen Throng talks about how she learned about the difficult period in her father’s life.

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Quyen Throng is a Senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her artwork based on her father’s stories of life in a Vietnamese re-education camp is on exhibit at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies.