Refugee crises · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Forced evacuation of Phnom Penh (1975)
On the Refugee crises map as “The emptying of Phnom Penh”
17 Apr 1975 — Khmer Rouge troops order the whole city, swollen by refugees to about two million people, into the countryside, hospital patients included. Thousands die on the roads. It is the first act of a regime under which 1.5 to 2.2 million Cambodians died. Remember them.
- When
- Type
- Site of memory
- 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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