We feel that readers will agree that in terms of unwarranted beatings inflicted on these victims in the flight from the Vietnamese communist desvastation, in the wake of all the concerned groups being denied access to monitor the inside conditions of those "camps", the Queen's urgent attention is called for.
#
*
So far the government authorities have not labelled the HK
representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a trouble maker. Practically all the other groups petitioning for a rational management of these refugees have been given "names" and have been challenged to "demonstrate" their humanitarianism by taking all the refugees into their homes etc etc.
The group of 55 petitioners from the central have already pointed out that the key to the entire issue of "unlocking the refugees, or freeing them from their prisons lies in the granting of the British identity. Having landed in this first asylum British colony and detained here for so long, they have been institutionalised as prisoners. Had their British identity been secured, they need not go to Britain. They can start a productive life in Hong Kong.... jobs and family life.... education for the young etc. Yet all these were denied them, in order to deter their fellow countrymen from "infesting" HongKong according to the Queen's appointees wonderful policy. Since the implementation of this detention in closed camp policy in 1982, deterrent effect has not been achieved, judging from the number arriving day by day. So the Queen's appointees drew the last two straws.
1. Implementation of the draconian screening policy (coining the words of the famous Martin Lee who was one of the unanimous legislative councillors who helped to pass the policy into law) to take immediate effect upon announcement on the 16th June. This policy has since been exposed as tantamount to arbitrary detention without trial and is in direct violation of the British common law practised here.
On this account the world is looking at this screening pertaining to detention without trial as not just a violation of international covenant of Human Rights but a serious violation of the British common law, with reference to the Act of Habeas Corpus which is applicable all persons on British soil, British subjects and aliens alike.
2. The Queen's appointees here hopped off to negotiate with the Vietnamese communists on the question of repatriation. The Vietnamese communists wants CASH to take back the refugees. People with minimal IQ can deduce the hidden motive behind such enthusiastic talks between Your Majesty's appointees and the Vietnamese communists. This must be viewed as amounting to bribing their brutal communist masters to take them back for keeping