10/3
From:
The British Ambassador
Martin Ennals Esq Secretary General Amnesty International 53 Theobald's Road London WC1X 8SP
25 October 1974
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My attention has been drawn to your letter to Mr Collard, Director of Immigration, Hong Kong, reference SGO/CH/mg of 16 September, on the subject of the South Vietnamese
repatriated to Saigon on 17 June. I have noted in particular the statement that your representative who visited Saigon recently was informed there "that the British Embassy had in fact received no list of names against which to conduct even the most basic preliminary enquiries".
I assume that you are referring here to the visit of Mr Sanguinetti, who called on me and with whom I had some discussion of this case. While it is true that at that time the details of these South Vietnamese had not yet reached this Embassy Mr Collard's letter to you of 30 September states the correct position - I very much regret the implication that I was not on this account able "to conduct even the most basic preliminary enquiries". I think you are aware from your correspondence with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that this Embassy has been fully involved in this case from the very beginning. It would certainly be a regrettable omission on the part of Mr Sanguinetti if he had not so informed you.
J C W Bushell
Copies (blind) to:
- CW Squire Esq MVO, South-East Asian Department, FCO
WE Collard Esq, Director of Immigration, HONG KONG
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