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Hanoi Street Kids · Nov 12, 07:22 PM
I’ve lived in Hanoi & the street kids can be a pain in the ass. They can also be charming & helpful. Many of them are homeless. I suppose they sometimes commit petty crimes, picking tourist pockets mostly, but nothing to deserve the treatment described in this article. Here is a picture I took in 2001 at the exact place the BBC piece describes. From their looks, they’re probably from the northern mountains, members of one of Vietnam’s eighty or so ethnic minorities. They were nice kids, just trying to get by. I was in Hanoi when Bill Clinton visited & I don’t remember this sort of sweeping of of street kids.
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