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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Vietnam_floating_market_struggles_to_stay_above_water&amp;diff=8529</id>
		<title>Vietnam floating market struggles to stay above water</title>
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&lt;div&gt;A vendor prepares vegetables that she sold to a resident of a house boat in a canal off the Song Hau river in the floating Cai Rang market in Can Tho, a small city of the Mekong Delta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Fixing weighing scales used to be good business on Vietnam's floating Cai Rang market, but the last repairman on the river now makes just a few dollars a month as modernity pushes traders to land.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Surrounded by dusty old scales on his cluttered houseboat, Nguyen Van Ut says vendors are giving up their boats for better lives on terra firma where supermarkets draw the traders who once thronged the waterway.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I don't have many customers now. In the past, it was alright, but now many boats have left the floating market... people on vessels have switched to vehicles,&amp;quot; the 71-year-old told AFP.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;He got into the repairs business 30 years ago on the Can Tho river to support his surviving children after his wife and two of his sons drowned in an accident.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;For a time life was good, but now he relies on handouts from his children -- three of them work in nearby Can Tho city.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;A resident of a house boat yawns as he swings on a hammock on the vessel in a canal off the Song Hau river at the floating Cai Rang market in Can Tho, a small city in the Mekong Delta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Once reportedly two kilometres long, the Cai Rang market is a shadow of its former self. There are about 300 boats on the water now, down from 550 in 2005, according to the local tourism office.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It has fallen victim to the [http://Www.Fin24.com/Search/News?queryString=economic%20rise economic rise] of the Mekong Delta, which has rapidly developed over the last decade.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Industrial and construction sectors have created nearly 570,000 jobs, hauling many from poverty.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But people like Ut have been left behind, unable to afford a life on shore.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Even vendors making a decent wage from the tourists who flock to the market  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] yearn for the perks of living on land: better housing, better jobs and modern amenities.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Nguyen Thi Hong Tuoi started working on the water when she was a child, just like her mother and grandmother before her.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Though she earns decent money, she doesn't expect her daughter to carry on the family tradition.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Boats lie anchored in a  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] canal off the Song Hau river in the floating Cai Rang market in Can Tho, a small city of the Mekong Delta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;In the future, I will let my daughter live on land so she can study and have a proper job,&amp;quot; the 34-year-old told AFP, as her elderly mother rested in a hammock surrounded by sacks of tapioca on their boat.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It's a common aspiration for young people in Vietnam, where more than half the country's 93 million people are under the age of 30 and eager to move to fast-growing cities for work.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- Supermarket squeeze -&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The origins of Cai Rang market reach back to when Vietnam and neighbouring Cambodia and Laos were occupied by the French, who readily exploited the natural resources of the colony previously called Indochina.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Mekong Delta's web of canals -- both natural and man-made -- were used to transport goods and people in the absence of a reliable road network.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Kim Hui, 70, and her five-year-old granddaughter Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huyen sit inside a boat that they call home in a canal off the Song Hau river at the floating Cai Rang market in Can Tho, a small city in the Mekong Delta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;There  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] are about a dozen surviving markets in Vietnam's Mekong Delta today, though like Cai Rang, many have shrivelled.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The local government is trying to keep the floating markets alive to (preserve) the culture and attract more tourists,&amp;quot; said Nguyen Thi Huynh Phuong, a lecturer at nearby Can Tho University who has researched the market's history.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It still functions as a wholesale market, with vendors waking each day before dawn to load boats with watermelons or radishes and advertising their products by spearing them to a bamboo pole on the bow of the ship.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But its charm also draws millions of [http://Www.Ehow.com/search.html?s=visitors visitors] each year who buy noodles, fruit and coffee from water traders, making it a well-established pit-stop on the Mekong tourist trail.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Recognising the market as a tourism hotspot, the government designated Cai Rang as a national heritage site last year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;For vendors like Ly Hung, who has lived on the water for 26 years, visitors have helped to maintain a traditional way of life.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Without tourism this floating market would disappear,&amp;quot; he said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Inner_Journey_Expeditions_promotes_big_saving_tours_in_Indochina&amp;diff=8342</id>
		<title>Inner Journey Expeditions promotes big saving tours in Indochina</title>
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		<updated>2018-06-25T08:27:19Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Convenient Landing Packages&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Inner Journey Expeditions offers a convenient landing package for travellers looking for an easy arrival into Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam including hotel, daily breakfast,  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] return airport transfers and one month single entry visa on arrival service. Director, Angela Kent, says �this is an ideal travel package for holiday travellers who want to explore this vibrant city on their own or business travellers looking for an affordable, [http://www.accountingweb.Co.uk/search/site/all-in-one%20package all-in-one package] staying at centrally located hotels in District 1�. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;A four-day Ho Chi Minh City Stay starts from AUD$216 person, twin share staying in 3-star hotel, deluxe room. Travellers can upgrade to the luxury five-star option and pay AUD$396 per person, twin share. These prices are valid for travel between 01 July and 30 September 2010.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Travel to Vietnam with a group of five friends and get BIG SAVINGS&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Travel with a group of five friends or more and Vietnam travel specialist, Inner Journey Expeditions will discount the tour price by 10% when you book and travel in Vietnam before 30 September 2010. Inner Journey Expeditions arranges private tours ideal for a group of friends or family wanting to share their holiday that suits their own time frame and style of travel. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The group has their own private transport and driver, local guide, hotels, sightseeing and most meals. With a private tour, the group can sightsee as much as they want, or choose more free time to relax and experience Vietnam independently.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Laos a New Yoga Tour Destination&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Travel specialist, Inner Journey Expeditions launches the first ever Yoga Retreat in Laos held in UNESCO World Heritage town, Luang Prabang on 3rd November  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] 2010. The retreat runs over 10 days and combines yoga, meditation, philosophy with Lao culture including textile weaving course, trekking to minority villages, elephant rides and a [http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=cooking%20class cooking class]. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Yoga classes are led by an experienced teacher from Byron Bay, Australia, a popular �mecca� for yoga. Inner Journey Expeditions Director, Angela Kent says �Laos is the newest destination to offer Yoga tours and retreats. Holding a retreat in Laos makes perfect sense as the Lao culture is grounded in Buddhism which is reflected in some of the teaching of Yoga.� Participants do not have to have years of yoga practice, but a small amount of experience would be beneficial to make the most of this amazing experience. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Cambodia Temples and Buddhist Monastery Tour&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Inner Journey Expeditions offers a unique six day Cambodia Temples and Monastery tour that combines an introduction to Buddhism and monastic life with the must see Temples of Angkor for travellers looking for a spiritual and educational experience. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Travellers meet with local monks and learn about Buddhist philosophy, they wake up in a monastery to the sounds of drums and are introduced to meditation practice and daily life. According to Director Angela Kent, �Spiritual and educational tourism is a fast growing niche in the travel industry. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Some travellers are looking for more than just the major attractions and urban activities, they want to scratch below the surface of the country they are  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] visiting and learn about the culture and traditions from an experiential level�. Departing from Siem Reap, prices start from AUD$735 per person and includes 3 nights in Siem Reap, 1 night in a Buddhist Monastery, 1 night on a home stay on a floating village on the Tonle Sap lake, 2 day Angkor Temple pass, Buddhism and meditation course, sightseeing, local guide, most meals and transfers.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;More information, contact:&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Angela Kent, Director&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;PO Box 2467, Parap, Darwin, N.T. Australia&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Phone: +61 400 806 039&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;URL: website&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Angela Kent on info@ije.com.au&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>WWII sacrifice of Free French defending Hong Kong</title>
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		<updated>2018-06-24T18:30:37Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;Seventy-five years ago, a handful of idealistic &amp;quot;Free French&amp;quot; took up arms to defend the British colony of Hong Kong in a futile battle against Japanese invaders.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But their sacrifice, though largely unknown in their homeland, is not forgotten in Asia.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;There are six names on the worn stele that pays tribute to them in a corner of the British military cemetery in Stanley, on a hill in the south of Hong Kong island.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;A French flag is draped over a memorial at the Stanley Military Cemetery, dedicated to French civilians who died fighting with the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps against the 1941 Japanese invasion of the territory �Isaac LAWRENCE (AFP)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I do not see why these people should be forgotten,&amp;quot; says Francois Dremeaux, chairman of the Hong Kong committee of French Remembrances of China.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;My job is to make their memory live by giving it meaning,&amp;quot; adds the history teacher, who helped oversee a ceremony dedicated to them last week.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Dremeaux, who has written a thesis on the French presence in Hong Kong in the interwar period, feels there is much to learn from these men, who in 1941 chose to fight in a battle some 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles) from their homeland.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hong Kong was a British enclave, and there was nothing forcing them to defend it, he adds.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;We cannot even say they were defending their colony,&amp;quot; Dremeaux said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;They defended an idea, freedom, and did it of their own free will, which makes their sacrifice even more noble.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Apart from representatives from the French consulate and army, those attending the modest commemoration were largely students from the French international school where Dremeaux teaches.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The group sang 'Le Chant Des Partisans', the anthem of the French Resistance -- a tune rarely heard on the shores of the [http://Www.Ajaxtime.com/?s=South%20China South China] Sea.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- Dissident consul -&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;By June 1940, many in the French community -- which numbered around 400 in the late 1930s, had already fled to Indochina. Those who remained largely rallied to the Gaullist Resistance cause.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;While the French embassy in Beijing was loyal to the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, in diplomatic correspondence Hong Kong consul general Louis Reynaud railed against the &amp;quot;treason&amp;quot; of the armistice Germany demanded and stamped his official telegrams with &amp;quot;V&amp;quot; for victory.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;A &amp;quot;Free France&amp;quot; committee was set up in Hong Kong with about 20 active members to recruit volunteers, turn merchant sailors on stopover in port or prepare propaganda broadcasts.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Then on December 8,  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] 1941, hours after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, which had been living under the threat of the imperial forces since they seized the nearby Chinese city of Canton -- modern day Guangzhou -- three years earlier.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Some of the Frenchmen joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps established by Britain to support regular forces vastly outnumbered by the Japanese.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- Bayonet wounds -&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Dremeaux picks up the trail of the Free French at several key moments in the 17-day &amp;quot;Battle of Hong Kong&amp;quot;, including the fight for the island's sole power plant.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;While only six names are on the stele, Dremeaux believes around ten took a stand against the Japanese.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Among them was Armand Delcourt, a 42-year-old merchant who came to Hong Kong in 1926 and married a Eurasian woman of Japanese and Scottish origins, Captain Roderic Egal, who was in transit from Shanghai when the invasion began, Henri Belle, a sailor passing through Hong Kong who took up arms, and Paul de Roux a director of the Banque d'Indochine.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Egal and Belle were both captured and sent to prison camps, the latter dying in captivity. Roux did not fight but set up a resistance network. He was arrested and tortured, before committing suicide to prevent the enemy forcing him to talk.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Delcourt was wounded by two bayonet blows on December 21 while defending a strategic hill pass and executed two days later, shortly before the governor surrendered on Christmas Day.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;On January [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội], 1942, brutalised by the Japanese, his pregnant wife gave birth prematurely in a Hong Kong church to a girl who for decades would not know the circumstances of her father's death.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I did not know the full circumstances of my father's death until much later when I was in Australia and received the letter from my father's close friend Carlos Arnulphy who had managed to trace me,&amp;quot; Monique Westmore, who now lives in Melbourne, told AFP by email.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I would have loved to have known my father but when I read the documents that are attached (to the letter) I understand that he was a man of great principle -- I do sometimes ask myself 'why did you go knowing that your wife was hugely pregnant and also you weren't exactly a young man?',&amp;quot; Westmore wrote.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The battle of Hong Kong was a total disaster and many people lost their lives.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;His military death notification praised him as &amp;quot;a continuous example of courage and enthusiasm&amp;quot; in an unequal battle who &amp;quot;cheerfully made the supreme sacrifice, confident in the final victory of France.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;For Dremeaux, the path chosen by Armand Delcourt resonates strongly today, &amp;quot;a time of withdrawal&amp;quot; when countries are increasingly looking inward.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;He was married to a Japanese woman, lived abroad and gave his life for Free France,&amp;quot; he said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;To be patriotic is not a contradiction with being open to the world&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Graphic on Japan's invasion of Hong Kong in December 1941 �-, - (AFP Graphic)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;French historian and teacher Francois Dremeaux poses for a photo after a memorial service at the Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong �Isaac LAWRENCE (AFP)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The French Consul General of Hong Kong Eric Berti (3rd R), along with military personnel and members of the public, attends a memorial service at the Stanley Military Cemetery �Isaac LAWRENCE (AFP)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>French Foreign Legion soldiers were the toughest in the world</title>
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&lt;div&gt;BOOK OF THE WEEK &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;by Jean-Vincent Blanchard (Bloomsbury �20)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As a boy, I�d always more than half-wondered if the French Foreign Legion was an invention of Hollywood.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Cary Grant and Gary Cooper capered about in the desert wearing those distinctive hats with the white hankies dangling down the backs of their necks.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Laurel and Hardy ran away to join the Foreign Legion, as did Jim Dale in Carry On . . . Follow That Camel, which was filmed in exotic Camber Sands. Marty Feldman directed, co-wrote and starred in The Last Remake Of Beau Geste, with Peter Ustinov as the sadistic sergeant.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;A new book by Jean-Vincent Blanchard examines the legendary, vicious (and racist) French Foreign Legion, whose soldiers marched in 50C heat till their boots filled with blood &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Edith Piaf had a famous song about a night of hectic passion with a tattooed recruit, which she compared to (and I translate) �a thunderstorm through the sky�. And it is her image of the moody and uncompromising Legionnaire, attracted by the promise of �blood, bullets, bayonets and women in an Arab land�, that gets closest to the historical and psychological truth, as laid before us in this gripping, disturbing and controversial account of the Legion�s first century.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;For the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831, was neither comical, nor an excuse for high-spirited larks. It was brutal and often monstrous.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Created to participate in France�s colonial expansion to Algeria, Morocco, Madagascar, Indochina and Mexico, �we scare people, we inspire fear and perhaps admiration, which is a little too thin a reward sometimes; but love, never�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;RELATED ARTICLES&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Previous&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Next&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Sex, soldiers and a very special relationship: Pals were... He was a doctor to royalty and collector supreme who created... &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Share this article&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Share Even the unique right to hire men regardless of their nationality was a cynical move.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Since Napoleon and his casualties were still a living memory, the French government wanted an army �that could face danger and human losses without drawing the political backlash that French-born victims would elicit�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Out of this came the Legion�s legendary appeal to ne�er-do-wells, broken-hearted lovers, criminals, political refugees and �scions of aristocratic families leaving behind gambling debts�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Anyone physically fit was accepted, especially if they had teeth strong enough to bite the biscuit rations. No questions were asked at the headquarters in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The band of outcasts were fearless and had 'no families, no ideals' and 'no loves�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;�You can choose a new name if you like,� recruits were told. �We don�t ask for documents.�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As mercenaries, the men fought for the Legion itself, united against everyone else.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;�Legio Patria Nostra,� ran the motto - the Legion is our country. �We don�t give a damn what we fight  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] for. It�s our job. We�ve nothing else in life. No families, no ideals, no loves.�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;By 1900, there were 11,500 men in this band of scary outcasts. Blanchard calculates that between 1831 and 1962, when Algeria was grudgingly granted independence and the French left North Africa, approximately 600,000 people had joined up.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It is chilling to discover that Jean-Marie Le Pen spent a formative three years in the Legion, and that recently a retired commander was arrested for making anti-Islam protests at Calais  �The substantial majority of them were Germans or Northern Europeans,� we are informed. The rest were Belgians, Spaniards and Britons. There was one Turk, one New Zealander and lots of Americans during the Great Depression of the Thirties.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Exhausting route-marches in Saharan temperatures of 50c with heavy backpacks, where �acid sweat burned your skin� and �you march with your shoes full of blood�, would not be my cup of tea. But, according to Blanchard, the typical Legionnaire was a man who found �redemption and an existential purpose through camaraderie and abnegation�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;�Excessive revelry� was condoned by the generals, who believed �one did not build empires with virgins� A Legionnaire who was shot in the stomach and lying on the ground with his intestines escaping was heard to murmur to his captain: �Are you happy with me?� This is the kind of stoicism that was expected.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;�Excessive revelry� was condoned by the generals, who believed �one did not build empires with virgins�. Sex with prostitutes was encouraged, despite the risk of venereal disease, as were heavy drinking and brawling. How hilarious it must have been to terrorise the natives - the Legionnaires �can hardly keep beating, so hard they laugh�, ran a report.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The French government maintained that this imperial experiment was to bring �reason, progress, science, culture and freedom� to backward jungle regions and wildernesses'&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The French government maintained that this imperial experiment was to bring �reason, progress, science, culture and freedom� to backward jungle regions and wildernesses.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Legionnaires were expected to fight �in the professed name of civilisation and� - here comes the catch - �in the name of racial superiority�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;While we can applaud their achievements as engineers - digging and building roads, constructing forts and laying telephone lines - the fact remains that, for these mercenaries, �the gift of French civilisation� in practice meant the opportunity for the savage conquest of African tribes and, in Indochina, the Vietnamese patriotic resistance.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Legionnaires went about �civilising the barbarians of this world with cannonballs�. Villages were pillaged and burned, the women raped, the men decapitated. �We were allowed to kill and plunder everything,� recalled a soldier. �We went to the villages and surprised the people in bed.�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;One Legionnaire received no censure when he made a tobacco pouch from cured human skin.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Nevertheless, killing civilians must have taken its toll - indeed, Legionnaires were among the most screwed-up soldiers in history.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In a group of 350 men, 11 deaths were put down to suicide, but there may have been many more, disguised in the record as death from disease. The belief was: �It is better to be dead than go through hell.�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Legionnaires were expected to fight �in the professed name of civilisation and� - here comes the catch - �in the name of racial superiority� There was alcoholism and much illness - typhoid, tropical fever, dysentery, malaria. In Legionnaires� hospitals, a coffin, slathered with quicklime, was placed in readiness under a patient�s bed.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It was said of a soldier about to die that he was off to �eat bananas by the roots� - i.e. be buried in soft soil.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The deliberate hardship was not unlike that of a religious order, with its renunciation of worldly comforts - though entertainment involved lots of drag shows.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Legionnaires made �splendid female impersonators�. Homosexual activity was commonplace, as you�d expect with �[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội],000 young solid males, boiling with vigour and vitality� at a loose end in the fort.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When Kaiser Wilhelm tried to discourage Germans from joining up by publishing articles warning against sexual abuse in the desert, men with Heidelberg [http://www.Accountingweb.co.uk/search/site/duelling%20scars duelling scars] raced to enlist.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As 43 per cent of the corps was German, perhaps it is no surprise the Foreign Legion didn�t rescue France when the country was occupied by Nazis during World War II.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The French government maintained that this imperial experiment was to bring �reason, progress, science, culture and freedom� to backward jungle regions and wildernesses Blanchard�s story concludes with the centenary of the corps in 1931, the parades and so forth.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;I am keen to read a further volume about post-colonial activities, particularly because, since 1962 when Sidi Bel Abbes was abandoned for a new HQ in Marseille, 50,000 men have felt the need to run away and join the Legion.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It is chilling to discover that Jean-Marie Le Pen spent a formative three years in the Legion, and that recently a retired commander was arrested for making anti-Islam protests at Calais.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Ha Long Bay...Junk boat</title>
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&lt;div&gt;We signed up for the Halong Bay boat trip with our guest house, A Dong Hotel in the old quarter of Hanoi, the guys here are very helpful and with a little bit of persuassion they did us a good deal, we got a 2 day and 1 night trip on the boat for $28.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The guys picked us up no problem and took us off, we got tp the port and there were hundreds of junk boats taking people out on trips, eventually we got onto ours. Remember to take your passport with you or they wont let you stay on the boat over night. Apparently the harbour police caught some terrorists 6 months ago smuggling weapons and drugs aboard one of the boats, so the police made it mandatory to know who is on which boat at what time.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The crew were nice enough, we stopped shortly after de-berthing and had some lunch, then set off into the bay itself. We were told by the guide that there are over three thousand islands in the area, however only one thousand nine hundred odd are in the actual conservation area. The whole area is a vastness of natural beauty, we have barely seen anything as nice, apart from the water it is slightly murky, not very good for snorkling! Our cabin was on the small size but you dont get a lot when you go for the extra budget option do you! the water in the shower worked when it felt like it and when it did it was only a dribble, Katie though didnt care she was just made up to be sleeping on a junk boat in the middle of Halong Bay, thats why i love her you see.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;That day we [http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=stopped stopped] off at Sung Sot caves and spent over an hour walking through the caves and taking in the sights, there are a lot of stalagmites and stalagtites. The guides try to show you all these [https://Www.Change.org/search?q=pictures pictures] in the rocks and shadows but they are  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] hardly true and you could probably make better ones up yourselves, the &amp;quot;romeo and juliet&amp;quot; one is a real corker! After the caves we once again boarded  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] the boat and set off for the fishing village, on the way we stopped at another cave you could visit by hiring a small boat, we decided it wasnt worth it and just stayed on the boat chatting to some couples.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The weather was gorgeous 40 plus easy and we were making the most of it all of us on the sun deck! We arrived at the fishing village and got to stop at one of the shops there that house the live fish in specially constructed rafts, the boats crew brought our dinner from here for dinner later! After this we dropped some people off at Cat Ba island that were staying the night at the hotel on the island instead of the boat (apparently its cheaper). We carried on cruising around the bay all afternoon and in the evening we settled in a small bay where we had dinner and everyone just chatted and socialised.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The next day we were awoken at 06:30 to be informed it was time for us to go KAYAKING! what the hell!!! so we dragged our sorry asses out of bed and paddled around the cove and checking out caves and stuff. We ended up really enjoying it even tho we could barely open our eyes! After that we did nothing, we dropped off more people on the island and picked up some more then took a leisurely cruise back to the main dock at Halong city. So Katie and I just took advantage of the once again gorgeous weather and bronzed up to the max!&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Katie &amp;amp; Scott&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Source: Travelblog&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Jesuit_priest_peace_activist_Daniel_Berrigan_dies_at_94&amp;diff=6735</id>
		<title>Jesuit priest peace activist Daniel Berrigan dies at 94</title>
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&lt;div&gt;NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 94.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a &amp;quot;long illness,&amp;quot; according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;He died peacefully,&amp;quot; Benigno said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This Feb. 16, 1981, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan, ex-priest, now political activist on NBC-TV�s �Today� show in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan and his younger brother, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers entered a draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, with seven other activists and removed records of young men about to be shipped off to Vietnam. The group took the files outside and burned them in garbage cans.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Catonsville Nine, as they came to be known, were convicted on federal charges accusing them of destroying U.S. property and interfering with the Selective Service Act of 1967. All were sentenced on Nov. 9, 1968 to prison terms ranging from two to 3.[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When asked in 2009 by &amp;quot;America,&amp;quot; a national Catholic magazine, whether he had any regrets, Berrigan replied: &amp;quot;I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan, a writer and poet, wrote about the courtroom experience in 1970 in a one-act play, &amp;quot;The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,&amp;quot; which was later made into a movie.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan grew up in Syracuse, New York, with his parents and five brothers. He joined the Jesuit order after high school and taught preparatory school in New Jersey before being ordained a priest in 1952.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As a seminarian, Berrigan wrote poetry. His work captured the attention of an editor at Macmillan who referred the material to poet Marianne Moore. Her endorsement led to the publication of Berrigan's first book of poetry, &amp;quot;Time Without Number,&amp;quot; which won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1957.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan credited Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper, with introducing him to the pacifist movement and influencing his thinking about war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Much later, while visiting Paris in 1963 on a teaching sabbatical from LeMoyne College, Berrigan met French Jesuits who spoke of the dire situation in Indochina. Soon after that, he and his brother founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, which helped organize protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam in 1968 and returned with three American prisoners of war who were being released as a goodwill gesture. He said that while there, he witnessed some of the destruction and suffering caused by the war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan was teaching at Cornell University when his brother asked him to join a group of activists for the Catonsville demonstration. Philip Berrigan was at the time awaiting sentencing for a 1967 protest in Baltimore during which demonstrators poured blood on draft records.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I was blown away by the courage and effrontery, really, of my brother,&amp;quot; Berrigan recalled in a 2006 interview on the Democracy Now radio program.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;After the Catonsville case had been unsuccessfully appealed, the Berrigan brothers and three of their co-defendants went underground. Philip Berrigan turned himself in to authorities in April 1969 at a Manhattan church. The FBI arrested Daniel Berrigan four months later at the Rhode Island home of theologian William Stringfellow.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan said in an interview that he became a fugitive to draw more attention to the anti-war movement.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers were sent to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Daniel Berrigan was released in 1972 after serving about two years. His brother served about 2.5 years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers continued to be active in the peace movement long after Catonsville. Together, they began the Plowshares Movement, an anti-nuclear weapons campaign in 1980. Both were arrested that year after entering a General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and damaging nuclear warhead nose cones.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Philip Berrigan died of cancer on Dec. 6, 2002 at the age of 79.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Daniel Berrigan moved into a Jesuit residence in Manhattan in 1975.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In an interview with The Nation magazine on the 40th anniversary of the Catonsville demonstration, Berrigan lamented that the activism of the 1960s and early 1970s evaporated with the passage of time.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The short fuse of the American left is typical of the highs and lows of American emotional life,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It is very rare to sustain a movement in recognizable form without a spiritual base.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan's writings include &amp;quot;Prison Poems,&amp;quot; published in 1973; &amp;quot;We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill,&amp;quot; a 1980 book based on his experiences working in a cancer ward; and his autobiography, &amp;quot;To Dwell in Peace,&amp;quot; published in 1987.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This July 25, 1973, file photo shows Rev. Fr. Daniel Berrigan and some friends participating in a fast and vigil to protest the bombing in Cambodia, on the steps of St. Patrick�s Cathedral in New York City. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This April 9, 1982, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan marching with about 40 others outside of the Riverside Research Center in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says [http://Www.estateguideblog.com/?s=Berrigan%20died Berrigan died] Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. 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		<title>Holocaust survivor who tended to Anne Frank dies aged 95</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who comforted diarist Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months before its liberation, has died at the age of 95.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Britain�s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said Ms Turgel died on Thursday.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Holocaust Educational Trust said Ms Turgel dedicated her life to sharing her story of surviving the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland and  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] the German Nazi camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] Bergen-Belsen.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Queen and Gena Turgel&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It was in a hospital at Bergen-Belsen that Ms Turgel cared for Anne Frank as the teenager was dying of typhus.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;She once told the BBC: �I washed her face, gave her water to drink, and I can  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] still see that face, her hair and how she looked.�&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;After the Second World War, Ms Turgel married one of the camp�s [http://Www.Internetbillboards.net/?s=British British] liberators, Norman Turgel, earning her the nickname �The Bride of Belsen�.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Jesuit priest peace activist Daniel Berrigan dies at 94</title>
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&lt;div&gt;NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 94.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a &amp;quot;long illness,&amp;quot; according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;He died peacefully,&amp;quot; Benigno said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This Feb. 16, 1981, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan, ex-priest, now political activist on NBC-TV�s �Today� show in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan and his younger brother, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers entered a draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, with seven other activists and removed records of young men about to be shipped off to Vietnam. The group took the files outside and burned them in garbage cans.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Catonsville Nine, as they came to be known, were convicted on federal charges accusing them of destroying U.S. property and interfering with the Selective Service Act of 1967. All were sentenced on Nov. 9, 1968 to prison terms ranging from two to 3.5 years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When asked in 2009 by &amp;quot;America,&amp;quot; a national Catholic magazine, whether he had any regrets, Berrigan replied: &amp;quot;I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan, a writer and poet, wrote about the courtroom experience in 1970 in a one-act play, &amp;quot;The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,&amp;quot; which was later made into a movie.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan grew up in Syracuse, New York, with his parents and five brothers. He joined the Jesuit order after high school and taught preparatory school in New Jersey before being ordained a priest in 1952.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As a seminarian, Berrigan wrote poetry. His work captured the attention of an editor at Macmillan who referred the material to poet Marianne Moore. Her endorsement led to the publication of Berrigan's first book of poetry, &amp;quot;Time Without Number,&amp;quot; which won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1957.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan credited Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper, with introducing him to the pacifist movement and influencing his thinking about war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Much later, while visiting Paris in 1963 on a teaching sabbatical from LeMoyne College, Berrigan met French Jesuits who spoke of the dire situation in Indochina. Soon after that, he and his brother founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, which helped organize protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam in 1968 and returned with three American prisoners of war who were being released as a goodwill gesture. He said that while there, he witnessed some of the destruction and suffering caused by the war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan was teaching at Cornell University when his brother asked him to join a group of activists for the Catonsville demonstration. Philip Berrigan was at the time  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] awaiting sentencing for a 1967 protest in Baltimore during which demonstrators poured blood on draft records.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I was blown away by the courage and effrontery, really, of my brother,&amp;quot; Berrigan recalled in a 2006 interview on the Democracy Now radio program.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;After the Catonsville case had been unsuccessfully appealed, the Berrigan brothers and three of their co-defendants went underground. Philip Berrigan turned himself in to authorities in April 1969 at a Manhattan church. The FBI arrested Daniel Berrigan four months later at the Rhode Island home of theologian William Stringfellow.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan said in an interview that he became a fugitive to draw more attention to the anti-war movement.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers were sent to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Daniel Berrigan was released in 1972 after serving about two years. His brother served about 2.5 years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers continued to be active in the peace movement long after Catonsville. Together, they began the Plowshares Movement, an anti-nuclear weapons campaign in 1980. 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