Red Hill 1983: Fear, Uncertainty Mark Refugees' Lives on Thai Border

Fear, Uncertainty Mark Refugees' Lives on Thai Border By William Branigin April 23, 1983 " the 147 Vietnamese from Phnom Chat were lucky to have made it to the Red Hill camp at all without any loss of life. "For 23,000 Cambodians who streamed across the Thai-Cambodian border three weeks ago to escape a Vietnamese attack on their refugee settlement, home is now a parched expanse of dusty scrub land known to relief workers as "Red Hill" near this Thai border village. Food and water are provided by the U.N. Border Relief Organization. Otherwise, the refugees have only what they were able to carry with them on the six-mile trek from their camp...

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