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(viii) The fact that so few have opted for repatriation
hitherto suggests that forcible expulsion would
have to be employed. In view again of the numbers
involved and the fact that this expulsion would
take place in areas from which press etc attention
could not legitimately be excluded, passionate
opposition may be expected.
(ix) Most expulsions would not be carried out across
land borders. The technical problems of coercing
unwilling people into transport and controlling
them in transit would be considerable.
Conclusion
14.
In spite of the advantages of repatriation listed at
para 10 above, recourse to involuntary repatriation where
large numbers of people are involved is likely to be a
high-publicity policy, with consequent high risks of
immediate or long-subsequent criticism if things go wrong
or perceptions of currently held values and
preoccupations change. Brief facts on a selection of
past cases affording some possible analogies is at
Appendix C. However, the continuing and perhaps
escalating problems posed by the continued arrival of
asylum-seekers from Indochina and the dwindling
prospects that the three alternative solutions listed at
para 3 will ever bring about a solution is likely to
focus attention ever more clearly on the need for the
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