Elie Wiesel

Bayard Rustin and Coalition Delegation Prepare Refugee Camps Fact-Finding Trip in Southeast Asia

Telegram outlining plans for a private fact-finding mission led by Joan Baez, including Bayard Rustin, Elie Wiesel, and others, to visit refugee camps in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore in October 1979. The group aimed to document human rights conditions among Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees to raise international awareness. Public disclosure of the mission was to be delayed until an official announcement by Baez on behalf of Humanitas/International Human Rights Committee.