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| 1975 |
| | | The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces | |
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| 1975 |
| | | South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Khmer Rouge guerrillas, led by Pol Pot, take Phnom Penh and launch a genocidal reign of terror in Cambodia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia begins decades of guerrilla resistance and brutal repression | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila International Airport | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Corazón Aquino, widow of the assassinated Benigno Aquino, stands against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines presidential election | |
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| 1986 |
| | | After attempting to rig the presidential election to defeat Corazón Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos flees from the Philippines to exile in Hawaii | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma from England, to look after her dying mother | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Before the coming election the military junta in Burma places democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest | |
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