CONFIDENTIAL
機密
69
MEMO
To: Secretary for Security
From :
Commissioner of Police (DSB)
Ref
(126) in SF/404-124
Tel :
5-284284 Ext. 204
Date : 10th May 1982
Vietnamese Refugees - Motivation during January-April 1982
As part of the ongoing Special Branch motivation survey, 227 Vietnamese refugees were interviewed between 1st January 1982 and 30th April 1982. No significant deviation from motivation pattern established during the last year has come to light. Survey results are as follows:-
Motivating Factor
Economic factors and "pull effect'i of information from refugees resettled overseas
No. of Claimants
188
Approx of Total
82
Former Govt./Military Personnel claiming to be political refugees
22
10
Young men avoiding military service (but also having economic reasons for departure)
16
7.5
Refugee avoiding forced relocation to New Economic Zone
1
0.5
227
100
2.
Included in this motivation survey were representatives of a group of 22 refugees who made their way from Ho Chi Minh City to Quang Ninh Province, Northern Vietnam where they arranged their departure. This group also described the difficulties, previously reported by Special Branch, of arranging clandestine departures in Southern Vietnam.
3.
Special Branch will continue to monitor Vietnamese rofugee motivation factors, to be reported at two monthly intervals.
2
C.c.
S for S (Spare)
PA
DPA (2)
HSI
b.c. HSG
SLO
b.b.c. SF/26-380
SF/82-880 Lopare (3)
PD/GNS/cl
Fi
(P. Davies)
for Director of Special Branch for Commissioner of Police