House Concurrent Resolution 274. There are clear and compelling reasons for the action called for in this bill. There needs to be an international presence in the Khmer refugee areas on the frontier between Thailand and Kampuchea. The numbers of Khmers who have found sanctuary from the Vietnamese invasion. or from remnants of the Pol Pot forces in Thailand have now reached somewhere close to a million people. They are being fed and assisted by the international community. Yet these locations are not by any means the wellorganized. relatively comfortable camps which have been in place for 4 or 5 years now elsewhere in Thailand. These Khmer locations are huge centers which have grown hurriedly under the impetus of war in Kampuchea. In assessing the impact of these huge numbers. v.7 need to remember that the Government of Thailand had extreme political difficulty accommodating the 250.000 Lao and Hmong refugees. That experience has not rendered Thailand somehow immune to the effects of the Khmer human wave. For the government led by Prime Minister Kriangsak to open its frontiers to the Khmers. as it has done. was an act of political courage considered purely in domestic Thai political terms.
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