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AND THE UNITED NATIONS HAS NOT GONE UNHEEDED,
THE
STATISTICS OF REFUGEE MOVEMENTS FROM COUNTRIES OF
TEMPORARY SAFEHAVEN TO PERMANENT RESETTLEMENT ARE TESTI-
NOT ENOUGH HAS
MONY TO THE RESPONSE TO THOSE APPEALS.
EVEN MORE DISTURBING, THE
BEEN DONE TO DATE, HOWEVER. SITUATION PROMISES TO WORSEN IN THE MONTHS AHEAD AS THE RATE OF REFUGEE ARRIVALS IN FIRST ASYLUM COUNTRIES CONTINUES TO RISE IN RELATION TO THE RATE OF DEPARTURE
FOR RESETTLEMENT.
PERMIT ME TO ILLUSTRATE THE GRAVITY OF THE MATTER
WITH SOME CURRENT STATISTICS:
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WELL OVER 900,000 PEOPLE HAVE LEFT THEIR NATIVE COUNTRIES IN INDOCHINA SINCE EARLY IN 1975. OF THAT
TOTAL, SOME 300,000 ARE RESETTLED IN NON-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, 200,000 ARE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, AND 150,000 CAMBODIANS ARE IN CAMPS IN THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM. THE REMAINDER SOME 265,000 ARE IN FIRST ASYLUM IN THAILAND, MALAYSIA, HONG KONG, INDONESIA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND IN SMALLER NUMBERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN APRIL ALONE, AT GREAT HAZARD, MORE THAN 25,000 VIETNAMESE FLED THEIR HOMELAND BY BOAT TO COUNTRIES ON