will you. take. us. with. the special. role. more than. mine. today don't miss our highlights w. program. w dot com hard work. this is t w news coming up should they stay or should they go a tough question for a vietnamese just workers 30 years ago when the berlin wall fell many felt they were no longer welcome. and in search of her husband what it means if you're married to a human rights activist disappeared in china. plus you've seen videos of the hong kong protests now how about the new one right on the front line.

i'm melissa chan you're watching news asia thank you for joining us this week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and you might wonder what does that have to do with this program well some 60000 compatriots from communist vietnam worked in east germany in 1989 and when germany unify many opted to stay some sought asylum especially those who believed more in the capitalist system others married germans were gardeners how they stayed on many faced hostility for their decision. quanto always dreamed of owning her own restaurant in 1976 the then 19 year old came to former east germany for vietnam.

nor for me it was my white flower dress represented germany because it was given to me by german aid workers. so when i got the job training offer i immediately said yes i had no idea what i was getting myself into. it was the. release. she liked life in east germany vietnamese people were considered to be very industrious but after her job training. had to return to a vietnam that had been destroyed by war. then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to east germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed him of envy i think. become an. eyesore. whenever we went shopping the cashiers down at us as though we had just walked out

of the jungle or the. this is the building that one true used to work in a former clothes factory she quickly realized that people like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged to not have contact with east germans in 1909 the wall fell germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. is when the 1st wife and i was so worried i didn't know what was going to happen i thought it was all over. and. over the following years the government tried to deport the former contract workers . was allowed to stay because she was married to a german but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of

the contract workers in her small town. he asked me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but we don't mode you anymore there is no east germany anywhere and. hatred of foreigners peaked in 1902 with aggressive gang violence right wing radicals such apartment buildings on fire and burned cars that belongs to vietnamese workers we haven't just been miles on my money we saw the attacks on t.v. my husband cried. and i told him these are hard times for us i might have to leave the country. still one true to state today she feels more at home here but racism has again been on the rise in germany . not only. of course i

hope that the people i like will remain in the majority so that we won't be in danger. i truly hope that will be the case it is up to all of us to open ourselves up to foreigners and not be scared of them because people from other countries have assault and the soup of society. is over there so. germany has become her home but one truth still has her vietnamese passport just in case. being a human rights activist in china takes grit take the case of you when shan who was arrested on trumped up charges of subverting state power we don't even know where she's been detained so of course the focus is on you to the point though that it's easy sometimes to forget the family members and the mental and emotional trauma

they endure. shuyun is on a mission crisscrossing china on trains. on the hope of confronting a system shrouded in secrecy i think i still don't know where my husband is or his situation. in pursuit of justice and answers for 680 days her husband used when sharing a human rights lawyer has been behind bars we're exactly and for how long only those in power know. there are i feel helpless very disappointed and feeling like there's nothing i can do i also feel disappointed as they don't do things according to the law. but as i see these things in my heart i will never give up i will continue. here. for months she's been making the long trip to shoot you city detention center where she believes her

husband is being held. inside she clings to hope and a bag of warm clothes for the long winter ahead in the end there is no confirmation you is even here. you will come up with the you when i know is a good lawyer he was only practicing his rights and using his freedom of speech. this shouldn't happen to him and it's very unfair on my family. if. you are going there for flanked by use lawyers she heads next to the district court to demand information use case was heritier in secret please give short shrift to her desperate plight patience is running thin the mission my body is extremely tired going from beijing to is very far often i leave beijing in the morning at 5 am and it's not even light of 5 sometimes it's raining sometimes it's snowing it's

already been 2 years i'm extremely tired tired to the point where i get sick later cindy. eventually they resolve to file a complaint about used treatment the little expectation that it will make a difference another day in a cafe system seemingly designed to obfuscate and frustrate. joining us is kong from our east asia bureau c.b. the un saying case is not an isolated incident this has been going on for years where not only the activists but the activists family members are targeted no. yeah we can tell this is just the tip of the iceberg like in recent years and like you have mentioned activists and human rights lawyer are often targeted by the authorities they are while they prosecute a charge or even send a child but definitely to also to talk and off the governments that. especially for

those who have apparently committed no crime the last race the authorities try to pressure them by other means beyond the law for some pollution there would all of the chinese nobel peace prize laureate or was under house arrest for 80 years so she was in that now to leave her own apartment even though she has never been charged friend of warrant out of some poet children is no exception this well that turned violent and and that activist daughter was not allowed to go to school pick us of off her fatness charge phoebe can you tell us a little bit about how the chinese justice system works i understand the activists don't even have access to their lawyers that much you know in china whenever sex is involved in whether charge are related to national security corruption and terrorism then therefore if he was detained them

and not then letting them to meet the law is not to mention their families so they have deprived off their civil rights to a point that only going representatives some of them like you've been sent to seek a trial or a sentence without informing their families become thank you. chinese president xi jinping backs hong kong's beleaguered and unpopular leader kerry lam that's despite months of protests that have brought as much as a 1000000 people of the 7000000 living there out onto the streets she made his public remarks in a meeting with lam well despite what he says protesters fight on including as you can see here in virtual reality hong kong has a digitally savvy population and activists have used technology in creative ways to promote their cause. but another night of protests in hong kong

but not on the actual streets in a brutal reality game replicating what's happening on the front line. that was developed by hong kong gamers to give players all over the world a better sense of the conditions faced by the city's pro-democracy demonstrators. one of the creators as well. she now considers her identity after taking part in unauthorized protests. we hope to also mention that you know awareness by. imitating decent protests can lead to people who didn't pay for experience in frontline. health care and. experience it in the. developers call their game liberate hong kong players wearing for actual reality headsets can take in the

protest zone with a 360 degree perspective. they can play the role of a real life activist just not anything illegal such as inciting violence. in a game last year to experience what car sr from our protesters might been through for example getting arrested getting kicked the ball and. getting to stay away to stay away from the danger of those tear gas canisters. a similar role playing was recently suspended by google. liberate hong kong's developers are hoping that an american online gaming platform will release their version sometime in november komaki. that search show will leave you with pictures of vietnamese guest workers invited to come work in east germany during the communist era thank you for watching and i'm.

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