Eating, elevated. Discover the higher standard in Portland dining at Departure â. Downtownâs Pan Asian kitchen from Sage Restaurant Group. Floating atop the landmark Meier & Frank Building, Departureâs ambitious menu captivates diners with its masterful remix of authentic coastal cuisines.
During the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), it was one of the worst human tragedies of the 20th century. 23 people found this useful.
They suffered heavy casualties for their brave involvement in the war: Hmong soldiers died at a rate ten times as high as that of American soldiers in Vietnam. Before the war, between 300,000 and 400,000 Hmong lived in Laos. Although there is disagreement over how many died during the war, estimates range from one tenth to half of the Hmong population was killed. Some were soldiers, but most of the dead were civilians felled by mortar fire, land mines, grenades, postwar massacres, hunger and ...