Word: nam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternative to the gas chambers is the open sea. Today it is the Chinese Vietnamese. The Cambodians have already been added to the list of people who are going to die. Why not Thailand tomorrow, and Malaysia, Singapore and others who stand in the way of Viet Nam's dreams...
...Malaysian naval vessels towed two boats back out to sea. With some 520 people aboard, they had arrived in Malaysian waters the previous day and had desperately tried to unload their passengers. One boat was listing badly; supplies of food and water were exhausted. Since departing from Viet Nam five days earlier, the boats had been raided and robbed three times by Thai pirates. Now, as the Malaysian navy pulled them back to sea, the refugees were in a panic. "We don't know what they intend to do with us," one shouted to a boatload of journalists near...
Malaysia insists, fairly enough, that it simply cannot afford to take care of so many exiles. Beyond that, the Malaysians fear that the refugees from Viet Nam-most of whom are ethnic Chinese-would remain permanently, thereby upsetting a delicate balance between the predominant Malay community and the Chinese and Indians who make up nearly half the population. Even if all that is true, Malaysia has no right to try to solve the problems of the refugees by drowning them...
...most pitiable were the Jewish survivors of Hitler's Holocaust. At the time of the partition of British India, in 1947, 15 million were dispossessed. In 1950, 5 million North Koreans fled to the South; a few years later, a similar southward exodus took place in Viet Nam, as hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics and Buddhists fled from Hanoi's harsh rule...
There is a well-documented pattern of discrimination against the Chinese of Viet Nam. In northern parts of the country, they have been dismissed from government jobs, forbidden to conduct private businesses, told that they can no longer associate with their Vietnamese countrymen. Their schools have been closed, but their children have not been allowed to attend classes with Vietnamese. In the event of another border clash with the People's Republic, the Chinese have been told, they face "liquidation" or imprisonment. In what was formerly South Viet Nam, there are regular announcements by radio and wall poster...