less that any had died as you suggested might be the
ca in earlier correspondence.
When the accused
appeared there was no visible sign of physical
mistreatment.
You refer in your letter to one of the women
prisoners, Hung Tu Muoi (alias Kwok Po Yee). Although
she had been admitted to hospital in Hong Kong for
observation, no abnormal condition was found and she
The Embassy in Saigon has made
was discharged.
enquiries but has been unable to find any evidence
of illness among any of those who were acquitted.
Incidentally, you said in your letter that, as
far as you know, no outside observer had visited any
of the prisoners before they were brought to trial.
To set the record straight, you may wish to know
that some British Parliamentarians led by Lord
Janner/who were in Saigon at the end of September met
a small number of prisoners from this group while
they were there.
I was disappointed that you felt unable to let
me have the evidence on which your earlier allegations
were based. I appreciate that Amnesty International
may be reluctant to reveal the sources of its
information, but it was the detailed cvidence itself
not your sources, that I asked for in my letter of
11 September. However in view of the outcome of the
trial, and in the absence of evidence to the
contrary, I hope you will accept that we have no
grounds for doubting that the South Vietnamese
Government have honoured their undertakings to us.
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