There’s been a lot of attention on the diasporas of Vietnamese refugees who came in the 1970s fleeing communism, but there’s also another Indochina group that appeared in Santa Ana in the 1980s–Cambodians fleeing the Communist regime of the Khmer Rouge.

The Communist takeover killed upwards of two million Cambodians.

Many families were separated, never to see each other again, while some died of disease, starvation, or execution.

After the fall of the Cambodian Communist movement, led by dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979, hundreds of thousands of refugees were resettled in the U.S.

Some refugees found a new home in the apartments along Minnie Street in Santa Ana in the 1980s, where Latinos and Cambodians lived side by side.

The neighborhood looked different– it was known as one of t

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