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Rwanda part 3
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Vietnamese Words
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POST 648 2024
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Blog www.clubmasterhoang.blogspot.com POST 648 – Mar.02,2024 /POST 149
(06 April 2014) RWANDA Part 3 |
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RWANDA Charles Phan Hoang
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Post 647)
In Butare I got a lot of good friends and students from both
ethnic groups of Tutsis and Hutus. Also at that time there were a number of
foreign professors and instructors, mostly French, Belgian, and Canadian,
working at this university. A few years ago there was also a small group of
Soviet professors and their situation turned catastrophic at the unpredictable
collapse of the Soviet Union because for months during this period of change
they did not receive any salary, no air ticket to go home, no money to stay.
Thanks to the generosity and help of Rwandan friends their adventure
eventually reached a lucky end. Through social activities the foreigners living here know each
other more or less well and solidarity was high. They passed on to me a
French plan of evacuation in case of emergency. About a year ago, at the
height of Rwanda Civil War the Canadian Embassy has proceeded to an orderly
evacuation bringing most people to Kenya. The situation now seemed calmer,
but no one can know what could suddenly happen. I did not encounter any
French soldier in the street but we knew there was somewhere a French military
base. They could intervene to protect French citizens, but how effective
could it be in case of emergency because most of people did not have a
telephone line, including me, forget about cellphone in 1992. The situation was what it was in the country, every Friday
about 5pm most of foreigners came to the unique bar in the main street. And
in the evening, by turn and by affinity different groups were formed. One of
my favor places was the ‘Chess Club’ hosted by a Belgian professor. Usually
most of his Belgian fellows where present. We all managed to stay there until
the last moment possible before the curfew at 10pm. My house was just
hundreds metres away so I did not use my car, however walking in the dark
street back home at night in Butare gave me some unique feeling of challenge.
Sometimes people do have the need to feel being in unsafe situation.
In April 1994, a horrible genocide has been carried out. Over
800,000 people, mostly Tutsi and some moderate Hutu, were massacred. Sadly,
many of my Tutsi friends were decimated. How could I forget them?
Charles Phan Hoang (Canada, 06 April 2014)
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VIETNAMESE WORDS No 02
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VIETNAMESE FIVE ACCENTS
sắc acute ; huyền grave ; hỏi low rising; ngã tilde ; nặng heavy Example: (la, no accent),
là, lá, lả,
lã, lạ |
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1 một, 2 hai, 3 ba, 4 bốn, 5 năm, 6 sáu,7 bẩy,
8 tám, 9 chín, 10 mười
Chuẩn bị Be Ready;
Nghiêm Ready, Nghiêm lễ Salutation , Lễ Salute |
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