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)
Third Indochina War
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The Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected military conflicts among the various communist factions over strategic influence in mainland Southeast Asia after communist victory in South Viet
Vietnamese boat people
…repression, re-education camps and the expropriation of Hoa properties by the Vietnamese government, economic hardship, and conflicts such as the Third Indochina War, contributed to the wider Indochina refugee crisis. Tensions between Vietnam and China in 1978 and 1979 contributed to the departure of large numbers…
The Khmer Rouge killed between 1.6 and 2.8 million Cambodians during the Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge also invaded Ba Chúc, Vietnam, and massacred 3,157 Vietnamese civilians, which prompted Vietnam to invade Cambodia and overthrow the regime.