A good opportunity to stay forever

I’m Vongsavanh Boutsavath. I’m a refugee. I fled my country from the communist rule because it’s too much suffering during that time of their occupation. I was General Commissioner for Rural Development. That means for rural community development at that time. And at the same time I taught in the Royal Lao Institute of Law and Administration. And after that, I became senator before the communist took over the country. 

I graduated from the University of Paris. Laos was a very poor country. I think we should improve the conditions of the people. I could not stand anymore such living. And then I was ? I was working for some time for the communist government. And I was thinking, in myself, to flee the country but I was waiting for the good opportunity. Otherwise, otherwise you would be killed. 

But when I come here, in the United States, of course I was thinking to go away from the communist regime. And so it’s a good opportunity to stay forever. That’s why I become a refugee In 1993 ?? very good things that people know their origins even though they are American. It doesn’t matter. But it matters that we have to learn the history of things, as it were.

I’m proud and I’m very happy. More and more the Laotians here recognize their origins and continue to strengthen their relationship between our two countries.