For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief—what I think of as the void—an emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe.
Vietnam has now arrested, over the weekend, arrested eight people from central provinces where many of these migrants are thought were originated from as two extra people arrested on Friday in Vietnam.
We think of our homes as places of warmth, familiarity and love; of shared stories and memories, which is perhaps why at this time of year so many return to where they grew up.