Refugee crises · BATTLE SITE ·
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
On the Refugee crises map as “Lang Son”
17 Feb–16 Mar 1979 — China invades northern Vietnam to punish it for invading Cambodia and for its treatment of the Hoa, taking Lang Son before withdrawing. Tens of thousands of soldiers die, and the war speeds the expulsion of the north’s Hoa by sea.
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- Type
- Battle site
- Chapter
- Vietnamese boat people (chapter 9 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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