what happened to vietnamese translators after the vietnam war?

Question

did they lose their jobs over night, or did they just fade out, victims of downsizing.

Answer 1

They weren't victims of downsizing. They wre beatened and tortured.

The communist North did some horrible things to the South Vietnamese - including the translators. The ARVN (South Vietnamese army) soliders who were not able to escape the country were imprisoned for years, and in many cases over a decade, after the war ended.

Two of my uncles were imprisoned in what the communists called Re-education Camps. One uncle had all his arms and legs broken and his eye ripped out of his head. Another uncle was imprisoned for 14 years, and was beaten badly for information that was irrelavant because the war ended years ago. He suffers from permanent brain damage from all of the beatings.

The communists didn't stop with the ARVN soldiers. The con lai (half-breed) children was the focus of horrific treatment. If these children weren't killd outright, they were forbidden to go to school and then forbidded to haev jobs. Their mothers were also forbidden to work, which many abandoned their con lai children to keep from continued persecution by the communists.

Many families in South Vietnam were thrown out of their homes with only what they were wearing by communist officials for no reason. Some of these homes were onwed by the same family for generations.

Do you want to take a wild guess at what happened to the translators?

Answer 2

They were all given generous severance packages that they used to start their own businesses most of which were nail salons.

Okay just kidding, they probably stayed on because we still did and do need translators.