23 and so on. Indeed, I believe the tragedy of Cambodia as presented in the movie ‘Killing fields’ is a historical lesson that should not be forgotten, despite it being an event of the past. The Indochina Refugee Issue and Sophia University With the firm endorsement of the Vietnamese army, the Heng Samrin regime expanded effective control, reorganized the administrative structure, and adopted a new constitution. Heng Samrin, the chairman of the State Council was appointed head of state, and Hun Sen was appointed prime minister. Under this regime the People’s Revolutionary Party was the only legal political party, but the regime being a puppet of Vietnam, it had no place in the United Nations. On the other hand, the Pol Pot faction retreated to areas near the border with Thailand, and continued waging a guerrilla war. Even after the collapse of the Pol Pot regime the western nations and China granted their faction diplomatic backing, as a political force opposed to Vietnam. Hence, regardless of the fact that the entire scenario relating to massacre, starvation and so on under the Pol Pot regime had already been clarified, they were still admitted into international politics. On the political stage of Cambodia, the Sihanouk and Son Sann factions also continued the war by maintaining their own bastions, and so the civil war situation between the four groups including that of Heng Samrin, continued until 1993. Due to the political turmoil that ensued throughout the Pol Pot and Civil War eras, over 1.2 million (estimated) people fled to the Thai and Vietnamese borders, and became refugees. At that point of time, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Red Cross Societies of several nations, and large numbers of volunteer groups, commenced activities for the relief of the Indochinese refugees. At the Khao-I-Dang and Sa Kaeo refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, volunteer groups
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