The more than one million refugees who escaped the fighting in Southeast Asia came to be called?

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2 February, 07:53

The more than one million refugees who escaped the fighting in Southeast Asia came to be called?

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The boat people - During the 1970s, there were a large number of refugees resulting from proxy wars in Southeast Asia. There were more than 2 million of them from countries like Vietname, Cambodia and Laos. Since they used boats to flee the war, they were nicknamed as the 'Boat People'.