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From: GREVILLE JANNER, Q.C., M.P.
The Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd MP
Foreign Office Whitehall SW1
Dear Dougles -
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I wish you a very happy new year health in the 90's. I also trust that your visit to Hong Kong was a useful one.
As you might possibly have been told when there, I attended a Conference in Hong Kong in December and went (for the third time)
to visit a camp in which the boat people were held. As before, I found the conditions shocking - this time, more crowded than ever.
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Recognising all the sensitivities and complexities of the problem, I cannot believe (as Geoffrey Howe said in a response to my business question) that the squalor in the camps provides 'the case for trying to ensure that the number of people in the camps does not increase,
and that is ample justification for the Government's policy'. Surely at the very least, the drains should be covered up? Surely you would not allow physical filth to be used as a deterrent to people coming or as a prod to their return?
Also, I was amazed to learn that although English is taught in schools in Vietnam, the people who run the camps are forbidden to teach it in Hong Kong. This is a ludicrous
Could you please have it looked
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into?
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