MAPS OF HISTORY · REFUGEE CRISES · BATTLES AND EVENTS · Communist takeover of LaosRefugee crises · TURNING POINT · 1975
Communist takeover of Laos (1975)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Lao People’s Democratic Republic”
2 Dec 1975 — The king abdicates, and the Pathet Lao proclaim the communist Lao People’s Democratic Republic. During the next fifteen years, about one Lao in ten crosses the Mekong into Thailand. Those leaving include lowland townspeople as well as highland Hmong.
When 2 Dec 1975 Type Turning point Chapter Fall of Saigon and the 1975 exodus (chapter 7 of Refugee crises)Atlas Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 TURNING POINT · UPROOTED: REFUGEES IN EUROPE 1945–1960 AND INDOCHINA 1975–1990 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Department of State: Indochina refugee crisis1979 · 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 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: 1975.93; each selected source records its own reference interval.
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