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Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter openly to the Secretary for Security, because when I tried privately to get reasonable treatment for fourteen Iranians who were forcibly landed here and treated as illegal immigrants, my pleas were mainly ignored, and eventually one young man died in custody.
This letter concerns the Vietnamese who are still in Refugee Camps here. At the outset may I say that I am fully aware of the problems and do not consider that Hong Kong should be left to shoulder the burden which actually should be on those who took part in the conflict in Vietnam. However, politics apart, we now have a problem of those who were allowed to land in Hong Kong, to what appears at the moment to life-long imprisonment. The hell they are now suffering cannot be much worse than that which they would have suffered in Vietnam. Yet the Hong Kong Government accepts applause for having received the refugees now a tarnished image, I believe.
Let me try to picture the problem of about 30 of these Vietnames in the Jubilee keception camp, where they have lived for about two years. Their wives are kept in separate, closed camps, without hope of reunion with their husbands.
That is inhuman enough, out in addition the men know that their wives are being subjected to indecent assault by undesirable elements, single ales, who seem able to break the regulations and enter the women's quarters. The women live in fear at night. A few have been hospitalised after assault. The authorities claim that they can take little action because the women are too afraid to identify their attackers. The public is kept in ignorance of the situation, and even camp volunteers dare not speak up in case they are prevented returning to do their work. women are kept within reach of these men needs explanation.
Why the
What kind of atrocities will the Hong Kong authorities tolerate in the name of ignorance of the facts? Letters have been sent to those in charge, with apparently no response in action.
The refugees propose that their families should be united in open camps or even in closed camps, or in any other place the Government
just be united so that the women will not be aoused.
wishes
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Is this too much to ask?
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