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White Head Under Fire single work poetry "Mummy, my eyes hurt"

Author:agent Dương Xuân

Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 White Head Under Fire

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Editor's note: News from SBS Radio informed that more than 1200 police and soldiers , who were supported by helicopters and fire brigades, fired 600 tear gas grenades into White Head closed camp in an attempt to force Vietnamese boat people to go back to Vietnam. Part of the camp caught fire. Inmates were beaten, some 200 were injured.

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y 'Between Two Cultures' - Vietnamese Women in Australia Phụ Ñưu Vĩẹt Nam Gĩưua Hai Giòng Văn Hóa Sydney : Vietnamese Womens Association in NSW , 1994 Z1684065 1994 anthology Sydney : Vietnamese Womens Association in NSW , 1994
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y Integration : The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues vol. 2 no. 5 August 1994 Z1684087 1994 periodical issue 1994
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1994
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pg. 100
Note: Poem accompanied by a photograph by Robert Ngo of a refugee mother and child, with the caption 'Oh! Please don't beat mummy'

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