The World - News from March 2, 1987
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About 230 Cambodian refugees, many of them weeping with fear, became the first of an estimated 23,000 to leave Khao-I-Dang, the last U.N. refugee camp in Thailand. Thai officials said the refugees were taken to camps controlled by Cambodian resistance forces closer to the border. The Thai government ordered Khao-I-Dang closed Dec. 31, claiming that Western countries were moving too slowly in resettling its residents. The refugees will now have the status of “displaced persons” who can be ordered to return to Cambodia. Khao-I-Dang was once a symbol of hope for Cambodians, many of whom fled persecution under the former Khmer Rouge government.
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