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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1991
GOVERNOR ON RETURN OF VIETNAMESE II'S
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THE WAS "AN
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT
VIETNAM RETURN OF 59 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO THEIR HOMES IN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP IN THE ORDERLY RETURN PROGRAMME",
HE SAID:
PLANNED
AS MUCH
EASY,
THEY
OUT AND CARRIED
WITH "TODAY'S RETURN WAS
BE IT
NEVER GOING TO POSSIBLE.
WAS SENSITIVITY AS PARTICULARLY WHEN SOME PEOPLE HAD MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT WERE RELUCTANT TO LEAVE. IT IS A PITY THAT SOME PEOPLE BE LED OR CARRIED ONTO THE AIRCRAFT.
HAD TO
LARGER GROUP OF RETURN ΤΟ VIETNAM AND KONG. MOST,
"THE 59 PEOPLE RETURNED TODAY WERE PART OF A 320 WHO HAD ORIGINALLY VOLUNTEERED TO THEN, SOME WITH THEIR FAMILIES, CAME BACK TO HONG WHEN TOLD THAT THEY WOULD HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO DO SO. THIS LEFT A PREPARED TO GO VOLUNTARILY.
"WE CARRIED OUT WORLD'S MEDIA.
TO RETURN AGAIN TO VIETNAM,
GROUP SMALL
WERE WHO
THE
NOT
OF
THE
ARE
FULL GLARE THIS OPERATION IN
IMMIGRANTS THE WORLD ILLEGAL ALL OVER
USUALLY WITHOUT ANY COMPELLED TO RETURN TO THEIR COUNTRIES,
RELUCTANT то GO BACK. PUBLICITY. IN MANY CASES THEY TOO ARE
IN LINE WITH IMMIGRANTS
WHEN ILLEGAL
WHAT WAS DONE IN HONG KONG TODAY WAS ABSOLUTELY
WORLD WHAT HAPPENS ELSEWHERE IN THE ARE DEPORTED.
REPATRIATION.
"WE HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE WILL OPT FOR VOLUNTARY BUT THE SIMPLE REALITY IS THAT NOT ALL WILL DO TO TIME THERE WILL HAVE TO BE FURTHER WHO WILL NOT VOLUNTEERS OUR AIM MUST BE TO RETURN WHO COME TO HONG KONG QUICKLY RE-START THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HOMELAND.
So.
FROM TIME SUCH RETURNS OF THOSE NON-REFUGEES AND SAFELY SO THAT THEY CAN
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VIETNAMESE II'S RETURNED SENSITIVELY
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RETURN OF ILLEGAL HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IS HANDLING THE
POSSIBLE, THE IMMIGRANTS TO VIETNAM AS SENSITIVELY AND CAREFULLY AS REFUGER CO-ORDINATOR, MR CLINTON LEEKS, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE IT IN FRONT OF THE WORLD'S PRESS TO FLIGHT SHOW THAT IT HAS NOTHING TO HIDE, HE TOLD REPORTERS AFTER THE
FOR VIETNAM TAKING 59 "DOUBLE BACKERS" AND THEIR FAMILIES TOOK OFF THIS MORNING.
TO DEPORTATION
IS FOR THESE
ILLEGAL
THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IMMIGRANTS TO WASTE THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN CAMPS IN HONG KONG, HE STRESSED.
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