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however, have effectively rejected voluntary
repatriation, apart from a few individual cases,
and have sentenced some returnees to terms of
"reeducation".
The new UN High Commissioner for k
Refugees, Mr Hoche, said in Hong Kong in September
1986 he considered voluntary repatriation to be the
"natural solution", but stressed that bis this
depended on the creation of conditions under which
people would freely choose to go back, and which
would guarantee their safety to do so.
(iii) Resettlement.
The United States has accepted by
far the largest total, over 800,000, comprising
those fleeing the initial débacles of 1975,
refugees resettled from places of first asylum, and
those emigrating under the Orderly Departure
Programme. France, Canada and Australia have taken
over 100,000 each. The UK has taken 19,500.
4. According to UNHCR figures there were at the end of
1985 some 150,000 refugees in the various camps of the
countries and territories of first asylum in the region.
Of these, Thailand, with its contiguous land borders,
hardest pressed. It has some 125,000 people formally
recognised as refugees (including some 90,000 Lao).
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s/some
Thailand also has/some 230,000 Cambodians who have not
been formally classified as refugees but as displaced
is
persons, whom the Thai intend to return to Cambodia when
conditions there permit. International assistance to
these has been coordinated through the UN Border Relief
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