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III. Ethnic Composition of Small Boat Arrivals 1979
Month
On boats from N Vn
On boats from S Vn (% of ethnic Vietnamese) (% of ethnic Vietnamese)
January
1894 (49%)
183 (72%)
February
2314 (1%)
587 (46%)
March
2287 (0.1%)
827 (9%)
April
5151 (4%)
992 (28%)
May
14004 (11%)
2247 (28%)
June
14331 (11%)
5320 (39%)
TOTAL
39981 (8.4%)
10156 (34%)
Note:
Some refugees from South Vietnam left on small boa ts from Ports in North Vietnam. Total from January to June 1979 = 3170 of whom 2904 are ethnic Chinese and 266 are ethnic Vietnamese.