(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 9 - Forty years ago 907 Vietnamese refugees, including 125 children, were rescued by the Italian military Navy engaged in its first humanitarian mission "outside the area": it was the odyssey of the "boat people". Now many of those people, who were transported to Italy where they rebuilt their lives, have returned aboard one of the ships that rescued them to celebrate that day and thank their "heroes", also present, very excited, on the bridge of the Stromboli supplier. It is the Navy, on its website, that tells about this event, which took place in recent days. "It was 1979 - the current commander of the Stromboli supplier reminded us - when the cruisers Vittorio Veneto and Andrea Doria and the supplyer Stromboli, who I represent today, sailed towards the Vietnamese coast to persecute civilians" fleeing the communist regime in Hanoi. A mission during which over 2,000 miles were traversed and about 250,000 square kilometers of sea.
Boat people Vietnam on the ship that saved them
2020-01-09T18:23:13.420Z
Forty years ago 907 Vietnamese refugees, including 125 children, were rescued by the Italian Navy engaged in its first humanitarian mission "outside the area": it was the odyssey of the "boat people". (HANDLE)
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