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Vietnamese refugees

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Vietnamese refugees

Hénero: Homber

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First Vietnamese boat refugees arrive on Malaysia’s coast

📅 Mei 1975

UNHCR records the arrival in May 1975 of the first boat carrying 47 people to Malaysia. This early flight began a prolonged regional refugee movement shaped by war’s end, state change, political...

Malaysia closes its last camp for Vietnamese boat refugees

📅 25 Yüni 1996

Malaysia and UNHCR closed the final camp after more than two decades of asylum, transit, return, and resettlement. More than a quarter-million people had passed through the country. The closure marked...

Boat departures from Vietnam reach an acute humanitarian scale

📅 31 Mei 1979

UNHCR reporting later recorded nearly 60,000 Vietnamese boat refugees arriving during May 1979. Many fled in dangerous vessels; ethnic Chinese in Vietnam were among those pushed to leave amid state...

Vietnam issues a statement on people fleeing abroad

📅 20 Yüni 1979

Vietnam transmitted a Foreign Ministry statement addressing departures by sea and its position on the refugee crisis. Read alongside refugee testimony and UNHCR records, the state statement is...