Vietnamese Communist Regime
North Vietnam as communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam's Army took over Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, and nationalist Republic of Vietnam dissolved on April 30, 1975 vi:Sự kiện 30 tháng 4, 1975. Prior to that Tháng Tư Đen Black April, which actually ended the VietNam War, Lê Xuân Nhuận was captured by the enemy on 4-17-1975, after the fall of Da Nang on March 29. He was imprisoned vi:Học tập cải tạo at many so-called reeducation camps, until 4-20-1987.
While enduring hard labor, starvation, illnesses, exhaustion, moral persecution, despair, during over a dozen years, he tried to create in his mind numerous poems, a lot of them were forgotten through time in jail and many more years under surveillance afterwards. The remaining pieces were later printed in the Free World, under the title "Cơn Ác Mộng" (The Nightmare). Eventually, he received asylum in the United States, as a former political prisoner, a political refugee.
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