Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Communist takeover of Laos (1975)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Lao People’s Democratic Republic”
2 Dec 1975 — The king abdicates and the Pathet Lao proclaim a communist republic. Over the next fifteen years about one Lao in ten crossed the Mekong into Thailand, lowland townspeople as well as highland Hmong.
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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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