CODE 18-77
SK1AJF
Mr Whitehead
S & SE Asia Section Research Dept
CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVLY
DAS
INDEX
WKK 243/2
- 7 OCT 1986
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Reference....
HKK 243/8
39
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PA
Action Taken
Mek.
INDOCHINESE REFUGEES:
1.
INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION
Thank you
for copying the first draft of your paper to Mr Barton of this department. I think it is a good first draft, and if I show any tendency in
in the rest of this minute to pick holes I would only plead that most of the holes are small ones.
2.
(a)
(b)
On this basis my comments are as follows:
to accommodate
Hong Kong's
case,
Para 2 et seq: "countries" should really read as "countries and territories": "places" ("of first asylum" etc) would be a reasonable shorthand.
sentence:
have
In para 3(i), it might be worth adding after the second
"(some 14000
1980 since
left China illegally and have sought to enter Hong Kong posing as direct
from Vietnam: arrivals
almost all have been repatriated, without difficulty, to China.".
(c)
Para
3 (ii) last
sentence:
none
of
the 14 voluntary repatriates from Hong Kong has, so far as I am aware, been sentenced to "reeducation".
(d)
In
para "8500".
4.
seventh sentence
"11000" should
now read
(e)
about the recent
increase
(f)
(g)
are also In para 4, last sentence we might add that HKG concerned
in new
the new arrivals, high proportion of long stayers in its camps compared to those in other places of first asylum, and the likelihood that
will be left to absorb the Hong Kong these longstayers on its own.
a
majority of
I think that the formulation in para 5, fifth sentence is
little
what in fact coy:
the Vietnamese were being asked to do was to desist from sending their own unwanted Chinese population out to sea. By agreeing to desist, and by punishing thereafter all of their people who sought to leave without permission, the Vietnamese did in fact take substantial "measures to restrict the outflow".
In para catalogue example:
5,
of
sixth sentence
"humane" (or
we should
otherwise)
I
think expand deterrence.
our
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