SPEAKING NOTE
Ex-China Vietnamese Illegal Immigrants (ECVII ́s)
In the past two weeks, there has been a new and
alarming surge in arrivals in Hong Kong of ECVII'S. The numbers
involved are already causing us concern: if the surge continues it will create serious problems. We would be grateful for the
urgent assistance of the NCNA in stemming the flow of new
arrivals.
No ECVII's arrived in Hong Kong in 1992. The flow
picked up in January 1993, with 10 arrivals, followed by a
further 17 in April. But the current surge began on 25 June.
Since then, the arrival pattern has been as follows:
Date
25 June
26 June
1 July
3 July
4 July
5 July
9 July
No. of ECVII ́s on board vessel
9
36
56
28
40
21
38, 37 (2 vessels)
Since 25 June, 8 vessels have therefore arrived, carrying a
total of 265 ECVII'S.
All of the arrivals in this period have told us that they have come from the Qiaogangzhen in Beihaishi, Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region ( NAP 15 ILAL
have lived in China since 1979 or earlier and are ethnic
Chinese. They have explained that they came to Hong Kong because the local authorities in Guangxi had demolished the
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