Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Crackdown on trade in Cholon (1978)
On the Refugee crises map as “Cholon, March 1978”
Late Mar 1978 — Security forces raid the shops of Saigon’s Chinese district as the state abolishes private trade. For the Hoa, Vietnam’s ethnic Chinese, socialist transformation became a reason to leave, and within a year they made up most of the people on the boats.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Re-education camps and Hoa exodus (chapter 8 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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