by Man Hau Liev and Rosa Chhun
Most Laotians came to New Zealand as refugees in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were fleeing atrocities perpetrated by the Pathet Lao, in what became known as the Killing Fields of Laos.
Main image: Souphong Lanthong and his son in Wellington, 1988
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