Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Afghanistan may become a Viet Nam-like quagmire for the Soviets. They must soon face the critical choice of disengaging or going in with thousands more troops to prop up a tottering regime that has been unable to communize an ancient feudal society with profound religious, geographic and ethnic divisions. Even with Soviet advisers on hand, the war against the rebels is not going well. The effectiveness of Kabul's largely conscripted 80,000-man army has been diminished by a string of mutinies and defections: since the beginning of the war, 8,000 government troops are estimated...
Kunstler said he refused to sign a letter which denounces Vietnam for expelling ethnic Chinese because the statement is "a wanton and cruel act." Folksinger Joan Baez wrote the letter, which actress and activist Jane Fonda also refused to sign...
...facts are simple enough. Three hundred more refugees arrived today. Sixty per cent of the camp's population is ethnic Chinese, 40 per cent Vietnamese. There are five schools teaching the children their ABC's. Most of the camp is middle-class. There are some family squabbles but no more trouble than one would expect. Reid's biggest problem, and he shakes his head vehemently, is keeping the camp clean. "You cannot install hygiene into them," he says. Outside, there are piles of garbage attracting insects and disease. A woman is kneeling in the middle of the pile and trying...
While world attention has been riveted on the tragic exodus of 500,000 Vietnamese boat people who have escaped by sea to Southeast Asia, another virtually invisible stream of 251,000 refugees has made its way overland into the People's Republic of China. Ethnic Chinese, they have been driven out of Viet Nam in the past 18 months when they became the target of anti-Chinese prejudice - exacerbated by heightened hostility between Hanoi and Peking. Little was known of their fate until last week when Peking, hoping for aid from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, allowed...
More of an asset are 11,000 ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here...