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Refugees forced back at Preah Vihear (1979)
On the Refugee crises map as “Preah Vihear”
Jun 1979 — At the border, Thai soldiers forced more than 40,000 Cambodian refugees down a steep escarpment into a minefield. UNHCR later estimated that mines, hunger and thirst killed at least several hundred people, and possibly several thousand. Remember them.
When Jun 1979 Type Site of memory Chapter Vietnamese boat people (chapter 9 of Refugee crises)Atlas Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 SITE OF MEMORY · UPROOTED: REFUGEES IN EUROPE 1945–1960 AND INDOCHINA 1975–1990 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Department of State: Indochina refugee crisis1979 · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · UNHCR: flight from Indochina · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography
Source details US Department of State: Indochina refugee crisis1979. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or text reproduced Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction. UNHCR: flight from Indochina. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or text reproduced Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs. Territories and displacement hatching are reconstructed from published source geometry. The hatched areas locate historical regions; ethnicity, displacement and control were not necessarily uniform at every point within them.
The layer records give the full source geometry and date choices. Arrows remain schematic routes, using the lesson’s existing volume categories.
The 1954 Vietnam line uses the nearest published regroupment polygons, from 1956. The Thai-Cambodian overlay is a 12 km study corridor around the actual boundary; markers identify individual camps separately.
Chapter narrative date: 1979.46; each selected source records its own reference interval.
proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 geographic reference · reconstruction: 1976–1991 · reconstruction: 1979–1990border-camp region
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