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OFFICIAL COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND IMMIGRATION
THE INDO-CHINA REFUGEE PROBLEM
Note by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
INTRODUCTION
1 The collapse in 1975 of the non-Communist régimes in La
Cambodia and South Vietnam resulted in large numbers of peopl
The exodus, particularly now fro
leaving those territories.
Vietnam, continues.
1
THE EXODUS
2
Although about 270,000 refugees have been satisfactorily
settled elsewhere, mainly in Western countries (including
130,000 accepted by the USA in the Spring of 1975), some
355,000 remain in camps in neighbouring South East Asian
states awaiting resettlement. For various reasons, the
countries where these refugees now enjoy temporary haven are
in some cases, unable or unwilling to absorb very many of the
into their own communities or even to accept new refugee
arrivals, even on a temporary basis. The solution to the problem, as seen by the United Nations High Commissioner for
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