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Refugee Boat Tragedy

In June 1988 a US Navy ship came across a boat full of Vietnamese refugees drifting in the South China Sea. What happened next defined the obligations of ships' captains at sea.

In June 1988 a US Navy ship came across a boat full of Vietnamese refugees drifting in the South China Sea. What happened next would help define the obligations of ships' captains at sea. Witness hears from one of the American sailors and a Vietnamese survivor of the events.

Photo: USS Dubuque (Getty Images)

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Tue 9 Jun 2015 07:50GMT
大象传媒 World Service Online

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