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the militia in Cheung Meng Village. The first occurred during the 1st October National Day Celebrations, when a visitor to Mo Lo Lau Village, near the border fence, was seized by local Communists, after allegedly insulting the C.P.G. National Flag, pushed through the border fence and
handed over to militia members from this nearby village. The second
abduction occurred on the 10th October, when a farmer was seized from his house in Mo Lo Lau during the night and again handed over to militia members from the same C.T. village. Both persons are still in C.T.
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During the early hours of the 11th October, Security Forces apprehended the persons responsible for these abductions. Enquiries showed that the abductions were the work of criminals, albeit professed supporters of the MAO regime, who sought to hold villagers in the area
to ransom. Like the persons abducted they were of Chiu Chow origin and
not indigenous to tho area. The action had no connection with land problems and was not in any way planned by the Chinese border authorities. However, once committed, the C.C.A. and militia certainly condoned the se
acts. They may have found it difficult to do otherwise in the midst of
a general campaign, now underway in the Chinese border area,
to purge
all rightist elements. These incidents too, had an adverse effect on
the Lin Ma Hang inhabitants, particularly the Village Representatives
who feared they were on the "list", and again they moved out of the
village. They returned on the 12th October after the perpetrators were arrested. Subsequently, on the 28th October, the criminals were
sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment.
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14. In October an unconfirmed report was received that LAU Fuk Choi,
the militia leader of Cheung Meng Village, had been purged, however, he
returned to the village in November having attended a rehabilitation and
MAO study course in Shum Chun, at which he had been required to confess
his former "crimes", of being a former capitalist and revisionist.
had apparently returned full of "revolutionary zeal" and on the 10th
November approached a female farmer working in the field in Cheung Meng
Village and told her that representatives were to be sent across to
attend study meetings. He subsequently told the same female that the
representatives would also be required to attend a study meeting in Shum Chun and should therefore bring bedding with them. The representatives, three female farmers, (see paragraph 10) refused to attend.
At this s jage
the rice harvest had been completed and the farmers decided not to cross the border, unless absolutely necessary, in the hope that the enthusiasm of LAU would wane. In December 1968, it was reported that
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