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The 30 years old civil war between the North and the South of Vietnam end-ed on the last days of April of 1975. It was also the beginning of the South Vietnamese refugee exodus. By 1979, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that over a million South Vietnamese labelled as the petit bourgeoisie, small business owners but earned more than
the manual labour workers, were pushed out of their homes and relocated into new economic zones. Their children in higher education were barred from attending, and former soldiers were placed in re–education camps and deten-
tion centres, where many died (Cutts et al. 2000).