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Case Study Vietnam

Minh Tam Nguyen


Minh Tam Nguyen was born on 25 November, 1947.
In 1968, he enlisted in the South Vietnamese Army in
the war against the North Vietnamese. On 20
March 1975, he was captured in the Phubon jungle
while fighting. It is a day Minh Tam Nguyen will
never forget. He was taken to a re-education camp
in central Vietnam and suffered six years of hard
labour. He was a prisoner of war.
Being a prisoner, there wasnt much to do. As a
teenager, Minh Tam Nguyen had always had a love
of music, so he invented an instrument similar to a
guitar called the dan tre which was made from
bamboo. Minh Tam Nguyen even taught a few of
the other prisoners how to play!
Minh Tam Nguyen was released from the camp in
1981 and fled to the Philippines by boat, with only his
son. He had to leave his wife and three other
children behind. Minh Tam Nguyens journey to
Australia with his son was quite horrific as they
had little to eat and wild storms almost caused the
boat to sink twice.
Minh Tam Nguyen and his son finally arrived in
Australia in 1982, and to earn money Minh Tam
Nguyen taught music in Brisbane. He began playing
the dan tre in public as a way to share his story of
how his life was changed by war. Finally in 1990,
Minh Tam Nguyens wife and other children arrived
in Australia. This made him very happy.
In 1990, Minh Tam Nguyen donated the dan tre to
the National Museum of Australia.
Dn tre musical instrument

Sourced from:
http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/dan-
tre-musical-instrument

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