Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Evacuation of Long Tieng (1975)
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14 May 1975 — Aircraft lift General Vang Pao and a few thousand Hmong out of the CIA-backed base; tens of thousands of others, left behind, set out on foot for the Mekong and Thailand. Hmong flight continued for more than a decade.
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- 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
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