Dispatches: The Hidden Graves of Kuku Island

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Carina Hoang grew up in a wealthy family in Vietnam. She had a nanny to take care of her and a maid who cleaned up after her—she didn’t even wash her own hair. But when the Vietnam War broke out, she and two siblings fled the country on a boat, landing on Kuku beach, in Indonesia. It was supposed to be a refugee camp, but it was actually a deserted island. No food, no water, no buildings, people, or tools. Just sand and jungle. Produced in collaboration with Snap Judgment, with funding from the International Women’s Media Foundation, this is a story about Carina’s decades-long struggle to leave Kuku Island behind.

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0:00.0	From Outside magazine and PRX, these are dispatches.
0:07.0	Stories from our writers in the field.
0:12.0	At the moment, thanks to violence and military conflicts of all different kinds,
0:17.0	there are more refugees around the world right now than at any time since World War II.
0:22.0	65 million.
0:25.0	It's a crisis.
0:26.0	And that doesn't even include climate migrants
0:29.0	or people affected by natural disasters,
0:31.0	which likely account for another 24 million people.
0:35.4	There's the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar fleeing cultural persecution.
0:39.8	There's Syrian families fleeing bombs and chemical attacks, and survivors of the earthquake in Haiti in the hurricane in Puerto Rico.
0:46.0	It can be hard to keep up with all the stories.
0:49.0	And the stories that do make the news are just snapshots, moments of tragedy that never get
0:54.7	any follow-up.
0:56.8	So today we're bringing you a story that does that.
1:00.0	It follows up on a refugee crisis from the 1970s. But we're bringing to you here because it's also
1:05.2	an epic, unbelievable survival story. And it starts during the Vietnam War. It comes from
1:11.7	our friends at Snap Judgment and producer Liz Mack.
1:15.0	Growing up the daughter of a lieutenant colonel in Vietnam,
1:21.0	Karina Huang had it all.
1:23.0	Oh, yes.
1:25.0	I even have our nanny to wash my hair for me.
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