Nguyen Tuong Van's Father Was American
Nguyen Tuong Van, the Vietnamese-Australian hanged in Singapore on Friday had an American father from the Vietnam War period. Van met his father for the first time in 2002, just one month before his ill-fated trip to Singapore when he smuggled drugs to pay off his twin brother's accrued debts.
The twins were born in a refugee camp in Thailand while their mother, Kim, was on her way to Australia from Vietnam. Nguyen stated after his arrest that he did not know his father until a month before he was caught at Changi International Airport in December 2002.
"He came from America to look for my brother and I," he said. "My mother married in 1987 to a Vietnamese Australian. M
Nguyen Tuong Van is now the first individual of American lineage to be hung in Singapore.
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