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22 Οκτ 2018 · An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Software An illustration of two photographs. ... Pulau Bidong Refugee Camp by aus1. Publication date 2018-10-22 Topics BoatPeople, Bidong Language Vietnamese Item Size 8.0M . Refugee Camp
By January 1979, there were 18,000 Vietnamese on the island and by June 1979 it was said to be the most heavily populated place on earth with about 40,000 refugees crowded into a flat area hardly larger than a football field.
Out of estimated nearly 1 million Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s, nearly 255,000 of them landed on the shores of Malaysia and most of them were pla...
By January 1979, there were 18,000 Vietnamese on the island and by June 1979 it was said to be the most heavily populated place on earth with about 40,000 refugees crowded into a flat area hardly larger than a football field. By the time Bidong was closed as a refugee camp on October 30, 1991, about 250,000 Vietnamese had passed through or ...
By January 1979, there were 18,000 Vietnamese on the island and by June 1979 it was said to be the most heavily populated place on earth with about 40,000 refugees crowded into a flat area hardly larger than a football field. By the time Bidong was closed as a refugee camp on October 30, 1991, about 250,000 Vietnamese had passed through or ...
With the only navigation tools they had of a compass and a map, they sailed to the closest country with hopes that they will accept the refugees. They landed in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, a few days later, but was told to go to Pulau Bidong where a refugee camp was set up.
From 1978 until 2005 Bidong Island was a refugee camp with a population reaching at its peak as many as 40,000 Vietnamese refugees. A total of about 250,000 refugees were residents of the camp during the period of its operation.
