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3. The Parliamentary Under Secretary goes on to deplore my failure to describe "in such detail" (the incidents) until now,
some 12 years later.
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The "Incidents" are described in sufficient detail in hitherto fruitless communications exchanged between Government Departments and other authorities, including his own, in London and in Hongkong, and myself, over the entire period of years quoted by him.
When I was counselled to act upon your suggestion that I make a submission to the newly instituted Indpendent Commission Against Corruption the incidents were summarised in chronological sequence in my statement, since returned to you by Lord Goronwy-Roberts, with the assistance of my legal adviser.
I feel entitled to draw attention, for purposes of legitimate comparison, to the fact that for some twenty years, including the twelve years to which the Under Secretary alludes, the wholesale accumulation of vast illicit fortunes through corrupt practices by Government servants and public officers went on under the very eyes of the Crown without so much as an adverse remark, and in the face of numerous, repeated and sustained warnings and complaints.
Finally, and in conclusion, I judge it fitting to remind all concerned in this matter, that the purpose of my representations is not, and never has been, confined to the proving of one isolated instance of attempted bribery made against a room boy who was little more than a messenger sent by others much higher up in the hierarchy of the Hongkong Blice.
My allegation is that I was victimised for my refusal to become part or even to acquiesce in the existence of an organised and quasi-officially tolerated system of wholesale bribery, extortion and dishonesty in the administration of the Crown Colony of Hongkong, notably in the Royal Hongkong Police Force.
As a consequence of the high-handed and unlawful action taken against me, I have suffered, during a period, as Lord Goronwy- Roberts has correctly counted, of 12 years, very serious material, as well as moral damage.
It is not my intention that the harm done to me, affecting as it has the most vital years of my life, should go without public acknowledgement and reparation.
The Parliamentary Under Secretary's very apposite allusion to the passage of time prompts me to request, once again, an early and conclusive reply to my representations.
Yours sincerely
"Alo
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ADAN HULIA
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