More Than 55,000 Vietnamese Americans Affected by Katrina

According to Mr. Phan Bao, who wrote to Viet Bao newspaper, “Just within one small group of people who lived in Buras and Empire area of Mississippi, there are more than 70 who died. It’s an area where the Mississippi river pours into the Gulf of Mexico, about 2 hours south of New Orleans.” It’s so far south and remote, “It’s why nobody bothered to come and rescue and that’s why there’s no news of what happened there.”

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More than 55,000 Vietnamese Americans have been affected by Katrina. The majority worked in the fishing industry. If only one small community loses more than 70 people to the hurricane – many are divers, many worked as ship builders – it is not difficult to imagine the over all number of Vietnamese who died will be in the hundreds. And, hoopefully, it will not be in the thousands.



More than 55,000 Vietnamese Americans have been affected by Katrina. The majority worked in the fishing industry. If only one small community loses more than 70 people to the hurricane – many are divers, many worked as ship builders – it is not difficult to imagine the over all number of Vietnamese who died will be in the hundreds. And, hoopefully, it will not be in the thousands.


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50,000+ Vietnamese men and women working the fishing industry.