1987 Lieyu massacre
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The 1987 Lieyu massacre occurred on 7 March 1987 at Donggang Bay, Lieyu Island, Kinmen, Fuchien, Republic of China when soldiers from the ROC Army's 158 Heavy Infantry Division killed 24 Vietnamese re
Xiamen, Lieyu (center), and Kinmen (left)
General Chao's "Three Principles of the People Unify China" wall on Dadan Island
Erdan Island fortress bearing General Chao's same Chinese unification slogans
Minister Cheng endorsed President Chiang's decree to lift the martial law, four months after the Lieyu massacre.
Vietnamese boat people
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Vietnamese boat people were refugees who fled Vietnam by sea following the 1975 fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War. This migration and humanitarian crisis peaked in the late 1970s
1987 Lieyu massacre
…Lesser Kinmen" or "Little Quemoy"), Kinmen, Fuchien, Republic of China (ROC) when soldiers from the ROC Army's 158 Heavy Infantry Division killed 24 Vietnamese refugees on the shoreline of Donggang Bay, including eight children (one baby), five women (one pregnant) and eleven men. The ROC military officially denied the…
A family of Vietnamese refugees rescued by a US Navy ship
Rescued Vietnamese being given water
Stacks of refugee identification cards on Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia, Zone D and E. There were approximately 250.000 refuges recorded on the island.
Vietnamese Boy Scouts at the Philippine First Asylum Center in Palawan (1990)