February 19, 2011

Map Site II

Wikipedia: Site Two Refugee Camp (also known as Site II or Site 2) was the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border and, for several years, the largest refugee camp in Southeast Asia. The camp was established in January 1985 during the 1984-1985 Vietnamese dry-season offensive against guerrilla forces opposing Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia Camp construction In early 1985 the Royal Thai Government, together with the United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO) and other UN agencies, decided to resettle populations displaced from refugee camps that had been destroyed by military activity into a single camp where aid agencies...

February 13, 2011

Jean-Marie Birsens in Seattle

Jean-Marie, a volunteer from Luxembourg Belgium, used to come to refugee camps to help and serve the refugees along the Thailand-Cambodian border. Jean-Marie visited the two refugees in Seattle early in 1986....
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