ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) with displaced Khmer people in the Greenhill Site B camp on the Thai-Kampuchea border. The program addressed the need for both medical and public health services among the Khmer population. When the Vietnamese military entered Kampuchea in December, 1978, thousands of Kampucheans (Khmer) fled their country into Thailand. They were either pushed ahead of the retreating forces of the Khmer Rouge who were being ousted by the Vietnamese after four years of rule, or fleeing the fighting and the Vietnamese. The main implementing agency for UNSRO was the World Food Program until, in early 1988, responsibility was transferred to the UN Development Program. GRS had been working with Khmer, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees and displaced persons since 1979. In 1982, the CRS staff who were involved in refugee programs numbered about sixty expatriates and 250 Thai workers, as well as more than 1,200 refugee workers.
