Vietnamese immigrants. I knew one of the boat people. 4 days out to sea. Pirates did more than steal possessions. The openly raped the young girls. Nothing they could do to stop it.
I had a gardener 40 years ago who had been a Colonel in the RVNA. He was captured by the Viet Cong, escaped and made his way south by night on foot. During the day he slept submerged in marshes breathing through reeds.
A Vietnamese man about 30 years old worked for me around 2000. They escaped around 1978 on one of the boat lifts. He recalled being strafed on the boat as they were fleeing.
When the Russians invaded eastern Europe in 1944-45, they evicted millions of ethnic Germans. My great grandfather got the knock on their door and had until sundown to leave. He and his sister managed to walk the 800 miles back to West Germany at age 80 and he passed away in 1951, the year I was born in the states.
We forget the natural state of man is war and deprivation.