THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1988
"THE POLICE ARE CONSCIOUS OF THE NEED TO KEEP A CAREFUL EYE THE SITUATION AND ARE REVIEWING THE POLICING REQUIREMENTS IN THE AND BUILDING UP THEIR STRENGTH.
J
"THANKFULLY THE PROBLEM
बम
OF
CHILDREN'S
PROCESS OF BEING SETTLED, HE SAID.
ON
AREA
SCHOOLING
15
IN
THE
ALONG THE
A NEW CAMP BUT PLEASE
SIR DAVID ADDED THAT MOST OF THE CRITICISM HAD BEEN LINES OF 'YES, WE AGREE YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE DON'T PUT IT IN OUR AREA'.
BUT IF WE ARE ΤΟ ENABLE THE "THIS IS VERY UNDERSTANDABLE
MORE NORMAL LIFE WHILST WAITING FOR REFUGEES TO GRADUALLY LIVE A
REMOTE RESETTLEMENT, THEY MUST BE PART OF A COMMUNITY AND NOT ON SOME ISLAND, HE SAID.
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POLICY,
TOUGHER THAN THE BOAT PEOPLE ΤΟ
ON SUGGESTIONS THAT HỌNG KONG SHOULD ADOPT A 'TOUGHER' THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE ONLY POLICY WHICH WAS ONE HONG KONG HAD NOW ADOPTED WAS TO REFUSE TO ALLOW LAND TO PUSH THEM OUT TO SEA.
T
"TO THOSE WHO SUGGEST THIS POLICY, I MUST WONDERING WHETHER THEY HAVE THOUGHT IT THROUGH,
"PUSHING OFF DOES NOT JUST INVOLVE
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SAY I CANNOT HELP HE SAID.
PROVIDING FOOD AND WATER
AND SENDING THEM ON THEIR WAY.
THEIR
TOUGH
THEIR JOURNEY', "BECAUSE IF THEY WERE TO REFUSE TO CONTINUE ON
IN
VIEW FULL BOATS
OR SCUTTLE
OF IF THEY WERE TO
POLICY MUST ALSO INVOLVE LEAVING IMMIGRATION LAUNCHES, THE PEOPLE TO DROWN.
POLICE
"I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THINKING PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY EVER CONDONE THE OUTCOME OF SUCH A POLICY, WHICH COULD RESULT IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEING DELIBERATELY LEFT TO DROWN.
COULD
MEN,
"CERTAINLY, WE IN THE GOVERNMENT COULD NEVER EVER BE SUCH A POLICY."
PARTY TO
SIR
HOWEVER,
THAT THE
THE
IN FRUSTRATION NOTED, DAVID COMMUNITY OVER THE BOAT PEOPLE PROBLEM WAS STRONG AND UNDERSTANDABLE.
HAS
"IT IS A REFLECTION OF THE FACT THAT SINCE 1979, HONG KONG
REACHFD) UNDERSTANDING
AT GENEVA KEPT ITS SIDE OF THE INTERNATIONAL THAT WE WOULD PROVIDE FIRST ASYLUM FOR BOAT PEOPLE FROM VIETNAM.
HALF OF THE BARGAIN ARE SUFFERING FROM PERMANENT SALLTER RY THE
"BUT SADLY, THE OTHER, EQUALLY CRUCIAL, HAS FALLEN APART, IN THAT RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES
LONGER WILLING TO COMPASSION FATIGUE AND ARE NO HOMES FOR ALL VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE GIVEN TEMPORARY COUNTRIES OF FIRST ASYLUM.
PROVIDE
/"FACED WITH