Vng Đai Xanh / The Green Belt - Bilingual (Vietnamese/English)

VNG AI XANH - THE GREEN BELT 

A Novel, Bilingual Edition

Ti c Vng ai Xanh vi nhiu quan tm. Cun sch gi li k c v Cao nguyn vo nhng nm 1960s v c nhng bin c lin quan ti Pht gio v sinh vin cng trong giai on bt an . R rng l tc gi Ng Th Vinh hiu bit rt r v cc sc dn Thng cng vi nhng nguyn vng ca h gia v sau cuc chin tranh. Nhng tin tc hin nay m ti nhn c t Cao nguyn tht ng bun. Ngi Thng ang phi i u vi nhng mi e da t hi hn bao gi ht trn np sng ca h. Cng nh ngi Php trc y, ngi M dng ngi Thng v sau lnh lng b ri h. iu m ngi ta c th lm l c gng to mi quan tm t cc nh lnh o M Hoa Thnh n. Hy vng v vn ch l hy vng.

I read The Green Belt with great interest. It brought me back memories of the Central Highlands in the 1960s and the events surrounding the Buddhist and the student unrest during that period. It's clear that Ngo The Vinh learned a great deal about the highland people and their plight during the war and post-war world. What news I now get from the highlands is very sad. The Montagnards are facing a worse threat to their way of life than at any time previously. The Americans (like the French) used the Montagnards and coldly abandoned them. All one can do is to keep trying to bring it to the attention of American leaders in Washington. Still one hopes against hope. 

Dr. Gerald C. Hickey, author of Free in the Forest,  

Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Central Highlands,1954-1976