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Show Locallady assists refugees War ended, but pain lives on somehow," she says slowly when she thinks ol the stories. However, there is a bright side The refugee program is working, she says. "It is working, Actually they are verj industrious people. Thej do their jobs well. The) are adjusting well." It's a complicated issue, Jones admits, but she also is adamant that help should be provided. "Mainly I just want the people to understand," she says. . murdered, no questions asked. They were considered dangerous. Jones also repeats stories she has heard from refugees stories of burying people up to their . necks then leaving them' in the sun to die of thirst or exposure, stories of hanging people uoside- down then slowly lowering them into boiling water, stories of forcing people to live on a spoonful of rice per day. "The war's over, but it seems like the side effects ... are still there, It was a labor of love for her, but she didn't let the experience end when she returned to her home. In fact, she still travels around helping to relocate some of the less fortunate, and she speaks often, trying to show others that the refugee relocation programs are necessary. "The main thing that I want to do is help people understand the situtation of these people," she says. "I want the people to become aware that these things are happening in the world. They need to be aware." "These things" include torture and death for many who have fled tjefore the Communist, armies which have taken over several countries.5 The "understanding" includes acceptance and hosting an Indochinese family in this country. Jones admits that relocation is not going very well in southern Utah because of the poor economy and the high unemployment right now, but she has hopes for the future; and things are going better in other By BRUCE LEE Record Editor CEDAR CITY - The war in Vietnam ended in 1975, at least for America. However, for numerous others, those who must live there, the worst part is still going on. Yet, there is hope, at least according to Elyce Jones and others like her who have been actively trying to relocate refugees from Indochina in the United States. Jones spent the last three months of a 21-month 21-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thailand, working with those in the refugee camps, preparing them to come to America and ; to other-host countries. "Our, purpose there was to teach those refugees that were fleeing from Vietnam the boat people, the Cambodians, the Laotians, the hill tribes and the ethnic Chinese," she says about the experience. The purpose was to teach them to be ready, to adapt, to their new country. parts of the country. There are three prerequisites before a refugee can be relocated in a community. First, there must be available jobs; second, there must be an English-as-a-second-language program pro-gram to teach, not only language, but culture; and, third, there must be an adequate health services program. Jones says she has run into some criticism about refugees taking up jobs that Americans should have, but she is quick to counter. "I ask them to put the shoe on the other foot, and how would they feel," she says. And she is aka-quick to explain and'(4IJustrjite some of the atrocities' the refugees are undergoing in their native countries. According- to Jones, many have -been driven from their homes by the. advancing Communist armies. Those who wouldn't leave were shot and killed, their bodies left on the road for others to see. The more educated among them were simply |