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3. Seperation of Chinese/Vietnamese couples, seems to me to be an abomination. Whilst one must allow that some people might get married in order to stay in HK, to reject all is to throw out the baby with the bath water. Literally in several cases, a father has been compulsorily separated for ever, from his child and wife. I urge that you could ask about this on the strongest humanitarian grounds as highly as possible. The whole issue is explained by 1. my letter to Patten, 2. answer from Security dept., 3.letter from UNHCR in China, to a father seperated from his young family, saying the Chinese refuse family re-unification, and the letter from the lawyers, finally my letter of reply to the security people, rejecting their spurious and legally false arguements. Under international norms the HK authorities are responsible for their own actions.
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4. We made an appeal to Patten, unanswered, on 10th December concerning the distribution of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Vietnamese to returnees (press release enc). letter/appeal is serious, and raises the straight point, if it is ok for the returnees in Vietnam, why can't they have the Human Rights texts with them ? Perhaps the HK authorities do not want to answer. I expect no reply from them, if one comes before you go there I will fax it to you.
I am sorry that this information is a little disorganised.
With my friendly greetings and best wishes from everyone here for Christmas and the New Year.
Rebben
Robert Chambers
P.S
copies of UN Universal Declaratur of
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