Khao-I-Dang
The Khao-I-Dang (KID) Holding Center (Thai: เขาอีด่าง, Khmer: ខាវអ៊ីដាង) was a Cambodian refugee camp 20 km north of Aranyaprathet in Prachinburi (now Ta Phraya District, Sa Kaeo Province, Thailand). The longest-lived refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, it was established in late 1979, administered by the Thai Interior Ministry and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), unlike other camps on the border, which were administered by a coalition made up of UNICEF, the World Food Program, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (briefly), and after 1982, the United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO). The camp held refugees fleeing the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
Khao-I-Dang Holding Center
เขาอีด่าง | |
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Refugee camp | |
Khao-I-Dang, April 1990 | |
| Nickname: KID | |
Khao-I-Dang Holding Center Location in Thailand | |
| Coordinates: 13°53′38″N 102°40′03″E | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Constructed by UNHCR on the orders of the Royal Thai Government | 21 November 1979 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.3 km2 (0.9 sq mi) |
| Population (March 1980) | |
| • Total | 160,000 |
| • Density | 69,565/km2 (180,170/sq mi) |
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