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...Bahamian exodus has encouraged a cutthroat smuggling trade, with boat captains charging from $50 to $500 per person and pilots of small planes demanding fares as high as $800 for illegal flights to small Florida airfields. One group of 13 Haitians paid a Bahamian boat captain $450 to take them from Nassau to Miami. But he put them ashore on a deserted island in the Bahamas, telling them, "This is Miami." After three days without food or water, they were rescued by a passing fishing boat...
...since May, the principal casualties have been the Chinese residents of Viet Nam. Caught in a crossfire of conflicting national and political interests, 160,000 refugees have already made the trek across the Vietnamese border into China's Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces. The Viet Nam government has explained the exodus by charging that Peking's embassy in Hanoi had hired agents provocateurs to roil Viet Nam's 1.2 million Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and induce them to leave the country. Hanoi produced two such alleged agents who "confessed" that they had plotted to promote "chauvinism" among the Chinese and persuade them...
With almost no preparations for so enormous an exodus -how could there have been with a war on?-thousands died along the route, the wounded from loss of blood, the weak from exhaustion, and others by execution, usually because they had not been quick enough to obey a Khmer Rouge order. Phnom Penh was not alone: the entire urban population of Cambodia, some 4 million people, set out on a similar grotesque pilgrimage. It was one of the greatest transfers of human beings in modern history...
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Anti-Chinese feeling in Viet Nam has roots in China's ten-century-long domination (111 B.C.-939 A.D.) of the country. Nonetheless, there is much evidence that the mass exodus was occasioned by Hanoi's communization program rather than by specifically anti-Chinese discrimination. Already deprived of their shops and goods, the Chinese in Viet Nam are understandably fearful of Hanoi's announced intention to resettle over the next 20 years in uninhabited areas 10 million people from overcrowded cities. An equally draconian resettlement program in Cambodia in 1975 coupled with political reprisals has already cost at least half...