Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Khao-I-Dang refugee camp (1979)
On the Refugee crises map as “Khao-I-Dang”
21 Nov 1979 — A month after Thailand opens its border to Cambodians, UNHCR opens a camp at the foot of a hill near Aranyaprathet. Within four months it holds about 140,000 people, for a time one of the largest Cambodian settlements in the world.
- When
- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- 1979 Geneva conference on refugees (chapter 10 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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