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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988

THE

INTERVENTIONS OF

HE SAID THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG SAW THE TOTAL IMPOTENCE ON PART OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT TO STAND UP TO THE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

UNDER A BRITISH WHEN HONG

"THEY ASK THAT IF THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING ADMINISTRATION TODAY, WHAT CHANCES DO THEY HAVE AFTER 1997 KONG WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY HONG KONG PEOPLE?"

AND THEIR NUMBERS

THAY THEREFORE DECIDED TO LEAVE HONG KONG, HAD INCREASED DRASTICALLY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, MR LEE SAID.

BUT DURING

TIME, THIS

THAT THAT

A

THE HONG KONG AND THE BRITISH EFFORT

DENYING IN

THERE WAS GOVERNMENTS MADE A CONCERTED

WAS ONLY RECENTLY IT PROBLEM WITH EMIGRATION.

THE GOVERNOR

ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE PROBLEM EXISTED.

"NOW THAT THE EMIGRATION PROBLEM HAS CAN OUR GOVERNMENT DO ABOUT IT? THE SIMPLE SAID.

BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED, WHAT ANSWER IS: NOTHING, HE

BUILDING MORE HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THE PROPOSED MEASURE OF

CONTACT WITH HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AND TO KEEP IN CLOSE SETTLERS OVERSEAS COULD IMPROVE THE SITUATION.

AND

DID

GOVERNMENT

WAS

MR LEE SAID THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION WAS THAT THE

THAT CHINA

IN INTERFERE

THE A LAME-DUCK ADMINISTRATION,

TIME CHINA INTERVENED, IT HURT ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG. EVERY CONFIDENCE AND SENT MORE PEOPLE TO JOIN THE LONG QUEUES OF EMIGRANTS.

TOP OFFICIALS IN BOTH THE BRITISH

AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENTS WAS THAT "PLEASE DO HAD COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS. BUT THEIR COMPLAINT

DOORS. PLEASE NOT INTERVENE SO OPENLY BUT PLEASE DO SO BEHIND CLOSED GIVE US FACE OR WE WILL LOSE CREDIBILITY WITH OUR PEOPLE".

ON THE FAILINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT, MR LEE SAID THAT, FIRST, THE

BE TO NOT APPEAR

EXERCISING THE HIGH DEGREE OF GOVERNMENT DID

BEFORE THE INITIALLING OF THE AUTONOMY THAT IT USED TO

JOINT

DECLARATION.

DO

SECONDLY, THE RULE OF LAW WAS SEEN TO HAVE BEEN

WHITTLEU DOWN

RECENTLY.

OF REPORT

JUSTICES OF PEACE ON HE CITED AS AN EXAMPLE THE

ON HEI COMPLAINTS CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE LING CHAU.

GOVERNMENT

COULD OF BRINGING CRIMINAL CORRECTIONAL THE OFFENCE OF CRIMINAL

HE SAID HE

LEGITIMATELY HAVE RULED CHARGES AGAINST ONE OR

COULD

UNDERSTAND

NOT OUT THE MORE OF THE OFFICERS OF

COMMITTED THE

HOW THE

POSSIBILITY

SERVICES DEPARTMENT IF THEY HAD ASSAULT ON SOME VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE.

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