Video documenting the final departures from Ban Vinai camp in 1992 before it closed, including family and friends saying goodbye as the buses depart and the very last families waiting until the very end: a barber still working among the ruined buildings; a woman sewing pandau with smoke billowing behind her; an elderly man making metal spoons in his empty home.
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In the early 1990s I set up the Mobile Public Information Unit, a project operating in the Lao refugee camps, gathering and disseminating information about the refugees' options for the future: basically, resettlement in third countries or v...