Nerakhoon: The Betrayal Summary

From a documentary movie of immigrant family from Laos. Nerakhoon: The Betrayal is the story of a young man Tavhi and his family who emigrated by forced because of a war that America involvement during Vietnam War. This is an epic story how American saved and rescued Laotian family because of the war in their forgotten country and the extraordinary journey of Tavhi’s family and their emotions. In contrast to the Late homecomer memoir book, is about a Hmong’s family life experience that also came from forgotten country that rescued by the US after years in overcrowded refugee camp in Thailand, and their search for a place to call home. This is harrowing story of Kao Kalia Yang who recounts her memory of the family captivity and how they escaped into Thailand. The Hmong was massacred during the Vietnam war in the …show more content…
They way US government liberated and rescued the refugees by tearing apart their families, questioned them what America did to them.
In the Betrayal documentary, Tavhis’s father was sent to reeducation camp, which was a prison to educate prisoner with Vietnam communist philosophy. He sent to the camp because he helped CIA with its secret war in Laos to fight for America with the promise they can help him and family. After years escaped to Thailand, he and his mom and seven of nine siblings flee to America. They moved in with two other refuges families, squeezed in a tiny apartment that content with local gang in Brooklyn and living in poverty. I believe the US government rescued and liberated the Laotian family by placing them in the very small apartment is unhuman. After years they thought that Tavhis’s father died, he called to reunite with his family but after a week stayed with them, the father told them he had to go with his new family. Tavhis’s and her kids broke their heart. On the