Indo- Chinese refugees, The impact of the War, Australia in the Vietnam War Era, History Year 9, NSWIntroduction. Veterans were not the only ones who had suffered in the war - the people of Indo- China had also suffered. The people of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos had all lived through over 3. Vietnam War ended in 1. Over two million people in Indo- China became refugees in the 1. Unable to stay in their homes because of war and oppression, they began to look for homes in other countries. The fall of Saigon In the last days before the fall of Saigon to the communists, attempts were made to evacuate as many people as possible out of the country. Some of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War era are of Vietnamese people trying desperately to get on to the last US helicopters leaving Saigon. The Americans and Australians did try to get as many people as possible out, but many were left behind. In the last weeks there was also an operation known as 'Baby Lift', which involved taking Vietnamese orphans out of the country and bringing them to families in Australia and America for adoption. A few thousand of the many thousands of orphaned children were rescued in this way. See image 1. The 'boat people' Those who were not lucky enough to have been officially transported out of the country now looked to other ways of escaping the new communist regime. For the next few years Vietnamese people began leaving the country any way they could. Orderly Departure Program 1980 CamaroView Notes - Final Exam Notes. LEGAL BASIS -1980 Orderly Departure Program- UN agreement w/ Viet until 1994- NOT US. Website profiles the timeline of the start of Asian Pacific American history, the discriminatory laws and the progress the communities have made over in the 1980's. Indo-Chinese refugees, The impact of the War, Australia in the Vietnam War Era, History, Year 9. The Orderly Departure Program. By 1979 the United Nations stepped in to try and find a solution to the refugee problem. Orderly Departure Program 1980 CalendarIn desperation thousands of families climbed aboard flimsy, overcrowded boats and began to make their way to other countries. They became known as the 'boat people'. It sometimes took months for them to reach their destination and many spoke of attacks by pirates in the open ocean. A lot of the boats were not seaworthy and did not make it. It is not known how many of them capsized and were lost at sea. See image 2. Most of the boats went to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong where refugee camps were set up to deal with the increasingly large numbers of Vietnamese people. Vietnamese boat people refers to refugees who fled Vietnam. The Orderly Departure Program enabled. Between 19 the outflow of boat people from Vietnam. The Orderly Departure Program (ODP) was a program to permit immigration of. The Orderly Departure The Orderly Departure Program. However, in February 1989, INS began to apply worldwide stan-. Orderly Departure Program. Over 5. 0 boats managed to make it all the way to Australia's northern shoreline in April 1. Australia and asked for asylum. The refugee camps Instead of freedom and a new life, some of the boat people found themselves in refugee camps in Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia that were desperately overcrowded, unsanitary and unable to deal with the ever- growing numbers of people arriving. One day in Hong Kong could see the arrival of 2. The refugees were than left in the camps, sometimes for years, while foreign governments argued over how to deal with the situation. Why did they leave their homes? There were many reasons why such a large number of people chose to leave their home countries. At the end of the war, thousands fled from South Vietnam, knowing that they would be persecuted or possibly murdered by the communists for helping the Americans and their allies. The prospect of living under North Vietnamese communist rule was not appealing to many people in South Vietnam. Many of them (like the Catholics and Buddhists) had left North Vietnam in the 1. Ho Chi Minh's government. After North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam, many people's worst fears were recognised. Thousands of people were sent to what was essentially a communist 'brain- washing' camp. Some did not come back. As relations between Vietnam and China deteriorated over Vietnam's relationship with the Soviet Union, people of Chinese ethnicity in Vietnam began to face persecution and so they too began to leave the country. In later years the economic situation became so poor in Vietnam that many people left to escape the poverty and hardship of living under a government that did not know how to run a peacetime economy. Many thousands of people also fled the communist regimes in Cambodia (renamed Kampuchea) and Laos. When the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia under Pol Pot, millions of people were murdered and thousands became refugees to escape the horrific situation. The Orderly Departure Program By 1. United Nations stepped in to try and find a solution to the refugee problem. To stop more boat people avoiding official immigration channels, the Orderly Departure Program was set up and a resettlement program was started to empty the refugee camps. Countries like America, Australia, Britain and Canada started accepting large numbers of Indo- Chinese refugees. Like refugees from previous wars, they had to start all over again in a strange country where they did not know the language and culture. In many cases, extended families were split up, sometimes to the different resettlement countries and many family members had to be left behind in Indo- China.
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