Hong Kong. or Singapore. When Cambodia fell in April 1975. there was a trickling exodus. but Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge shut off the border and for several years few poeple escaped to Thailand. But. when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in December 1978 there was a tide of refugees which flooded the border. Today. some 400.000 refugees. or 1 out of every 15 Cambodians in Indochina. still live in temporary United Nations supplied camps and villages on either side of the border. The situation in Laos is not much different. At one time there had been thousands of HMong living in the mountains.
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