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
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)
Skyluck
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The Skyluck was a 3,500-ton Panamanian-registered freighter that carried 3,200 Chinese and Vietnamese boat people fleeing Vietnam four years after the fall of Saigon. The ship left Vietnam from the Me
The freighter Skyluck aground on Lamma Island.