Site Two | |
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  Site Two Location in Thailand | |
| Coordinates: 14°07′35″N 102°53′49″E / 14.126359°N 102.896900°E | |
| Country |  Thailand |
| Opened by the Royal Thai Government | January 1985 |
| Area | |
• Total | 7.5 km2 (2.9 sq mi) |
| Population (1989) | |
• Total | 198,000 |
| • Density | 26,400/km2 (68,000/sq mi) |
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.[1]
Site Two was closed in mid-1993 and the great majority of its population was voluntarily returned to Cambodia.[2]
- ^ Robinson C. Terms of refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response. London; New York, New York: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998, p. 92.
- ^ Grant M, Grant T, Fortune G, Horgan B. Bamboo & Barbed Wire: Eight Years as a Volunteer in a Refugee Camp. Mandurah, W.A.: DB Pub., 2000.