Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peking tries to resettle its exiles from Viet...
...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 a group...
...North Vietnamese army that marched with Hanoi's victorious troops from Kontum all the way to Saigon. Last year Vietnamese security police burst into his home in the middle of the night, seized him and his two brothers and beat them, warning that they had to leave Viet Nam or be killed. Now he is a refugee, working sugar-cane fields in China and owning nothing but the clothes he wears...
These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...
Nearly all the refugees come from North Viet Nam. Most seem content, but a minority see China as a way station on a voyage to the land of the once hated enemy - the U.S. Others yearn to go to Canada, France or Australia. Said a North Vietnamese artist who has been resettled on a Chinese state farm: "I hear that life is not so difficult in America as it is in this place. Here, if you have something to wear you have nothing to eat or the other way around...