About the " Vietnamese Boat People"

Vietnamese boat people were mainly the citizens of Vietnam along with some citizens of Laos and Cambodia who were migrating from their homelands to different Asian countries due the Vietnamese war. The war took place in 1955 and went on till 1975 that is almost for 20 years but people kept migrating after that too. The term Vietnamese boat people is only referred to the people who fled to the communist government from the former south, although at the same the citizens from north fled to Hong Kong just are cautious from the government of Hanoi. 

Vietnamese war was the only and the most important cause of the migration. The Vietnam War was a long, costly-armed conflict that caused the communist rule of North Vietnam and its southern partners, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.