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Report No.1 LM 1443
General
The group comprised 58 ethnic Chinese, all of whom claimed to have left Vietnam during 1978 and 1999, and had subsequently been resettled in Southern China. The total was an amalgamation of four groups which had joined together at Jingkou (6635/0650), Sanshui County, Guangdong Province to make their escape attempt.
Source Details and Access
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Source was a 40 year old ethnic Chinese born in Quang Ninh, Northern Vietnam, Source left Vietnam in April 1978 via Mong Cai, and was subsequently resettled with his family on an Overseas Chinese farm (OCF) at Yanghe (2799/3109), Hua Xian (5363/4905) County in Guangdong Province. Source was attached to the No.9 Production Brigade as a farm worker.
Escape Planning and Departure
30 The group (L/M 1443) was made up of four sub-groups of would-be escapees who met together at Jingkou. The group came from Hua Xian (Source's group), Taishan (0669/1472), Hainan Island and Fengcheng (7089/1004). All came to Jingkou en route to Dawang Farm, from where they had hoped to escape. However, on arrival at Jingkou they discovered that Dawang had been declared a closed area to all but bona fide residents.
4. Source met up with the other three sub-group leaders, and took it upon himself to organise the escape from Jingkou. He collected RMB 110 from each adult in the party, collecting a total of RMB 4600, which he used to buy a boat from a local Chinese resident at Jingkou (no details). According to Source the boat belonged to a commune some distance from Jingkou, and had been used to ship feight to Jingkou farm.
5M On the night of 13th July 1981, Source and his group, now totally 58 persons; set off from Jingkou. The group travelled only at night, to evade detection by security forces, and arrived in Macau without any interference on 16th July 1981. At Macau they were intercepted by the Marine police, and redirected to Hong Kong, where they arrived on 17th July 1981.
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6. According to Source, there was no action being taken against Overseas Chinese wishing to escape from Jingkou. During the time that Source spent at Jingkou, he did not notice any other would-be escapees, apart from those that left in his party. Source heard from local residents that between 11th June 1981 and 13th June 1981 some arrests were made of Overseas Chinese intent on leaving Jingkou, but that the situation had reverted to normal after 20th June 1981. Source also said that the situation at Mafang (7456/ 2075) was similar to that at Jingkou. Source commented that many Overseas Chinese had heard that some 3,000 refugees, in Macau had escaped from camps there and had returned to China, and that ong Kong had repatriated some 2000 ethnic Chinese Vietnamese who had arrived from OCFs in China.
In Source's opinion, this information had had a greater deterrent effect on Overseas Chinese wishing to leave China than fear of detection by the security forces.
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