The History Hour - Operation Lifeline: Canada's Refugee Revolution
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How private citizens in Canada sponsored Vietnamese boat-people. Plus the first ever charity rock concert for Chernobyl, the actor who stared in a Hitchcock murder movie, America's first ever female rabbi and Mr Sanitation brings clean toilets in India.
Photo: A Vietnamese boat crowded with refugees runs aground on the Malaysian coast. 1979 (BBC)
Published on Saturday, 3rd June 2017.
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