From the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
The Rt.non. The Lord Gorony-Roberts
Dear Kur Ennels,
London S.W.1
11 September 1974
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Thank you for your letter of 28 August about the group of 118 South Vietnamese returned to Saigon from Hong Kong.
I am afraid that I must press you again to reveal the evidence on which you have relied for the very serious charges you have made. I have indeed tried to "verify", as you put it, the accuracy or otherwise of your allegations, and it is precisely because I have not so far been able to find any evidence to substantiate them that I conclule that you must have access to evidence which is not available to me.
If so, it is clearly right that you should let me have this so that I can get to the bottom of this business in all its aspects. I should also like to sec a copy of Mr. Sanguinetti's report.
Nor is your suggestion that these persons were treated as a group and not as individual people with individual rights justifiable. Our Embassy in Saigon has in fact received from Hong Kong a list of the members of the group who were sent back to South Vietnam. You will also recall that one of the group was not repatriated on 17 June, but stayed in Hong Kong so that his case could be examined, since he claimed that he had a birth certificate showing that he had been born in Hong Kong. His claim was subsequently established to be true, and he was allowed to remain in Hong Kong.
Martin Ennals, Esq. Cocrotary General
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