Thanh was 19 when he was sent to war. The Fall of Saigon changed him forever. By Christopher Tan, SBS News

Half a century after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnamese veterans and refugees Le Quang Vinh and Thanh Nguyen recount their harrowing experiences of war, brutal re-education camps and perilous escapes by sea.

Le and his family were among the first wave of Vietnamese refugees welcomed into Australia under then-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's humanitarian resettlement program in 1978.
It was a significant turning point in Australian history — coming just five years after the end of the White Australia Policy.

Thanh was 19 when he was sent to war. The Fall of Saigon changed him forever. By Christopher Tan, SBS News