WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1990
26
NEWSPAPER REPORT ON VBP REFUTED * * *
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
REFUTED A NEWSPAPER
REPORT WHICH CLAIMED THAT VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE WERE REMOVED TO CHI THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS MA WAN (UPPER) DETENTION CENTRE BECAUSE OF AND ACTIVITIES.
HE ALSO DENIED THAT THEY WERE BEING PERSECUTED.
"AS STATED BEFORE, CHI MA WAN IS A DETENTION CENTRE AND PRISON, AND THE BOAT PEOPLE THERE ARE NOT TREATED AS PRISONERS.
NOT A
BOAT
"THE STATUTORY RULES APPLIED THERE ARE THE
SECURITY STRICTER CENTRES, ALTHOUGH THERE IS
SENT IN ARE PEOPLE REASONS WHY THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
AS SAME IN KEEPING THE FIRST
IN OTHER THE WITH
THE PLACE,
TRANSFERRED HE SAID THE BOAT PEOPLE WHO WERE INCLUDED THOSE WHO WERE BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE
INVOLVED WHO THOSE
HAD BEEN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, AND ATTEMPTED TO CAUSE DISTURBANCES AT VBP DETENTION CENTRES.
PEOPLE MIGHT ALSO BE TAKEN THERE FOR THEIR THERE WAS ANY POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE AND IN THEIR OWN CENTRES, HE SAID.
CHI ΤΟ
FOR
MA WAN ALLEGED
IN
OR
HAD
OWN PROTECTION INTIMIDATION AGAINST
IF
THEM
ΤΟ ASSIST USE "CHI MA WAN WAS BROUGHT INTO PEACE AND ORDER AT DETENTION CENTRES GENERALLY, AND WELL AS INTEREST OF THE BOAT PEOPLE THEMSELVES AS SPOKESMAN EMPHASISED.
то PRESERVE US THIS IS IN THE THE MANAGEMENT,
TAKEN "IT IS NOT USED AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ARE THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS.'
BROKE
OUT AT WHITEHEAD FOUR MAJOR DISTURBANCES CENTRE IN APRIL AND MAY, AND A NUMBER OF BOAT PEOPLE WERE FOLLOWING A SEARCH FOR WEAPONS.
BECAUSE OF
DETENTION TRANSFERRED
AND
OF CERTAIN DISRUPTIVE "THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE REMOVAL
FACT THAT NO CRIMINAL ELEMENTS TO CHI MA WAN IS EVIDENCED BY THE
IT THAT TIME AND MAJOR DISTURBANCE HAS OCCURRED AT WHITEHEAD SINCE
" THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT. HAS BECOME A MORE PEACEFUL PLACE,
HE ADDED THAT THOSE WHO WERE TRANSFERRED WERE INFORMED
LONG HOW
EVERY REASONS PRIOR TO BEING MOVED AND WERE TOLD FOR HAVE TO REMAIN IN CHI MA WAN. A BOARD OF REVIEW MEETS DECIDE ON THE TIMING OF THEIR RETURN.
OF THE THEY MIGHT
WEEK
TO
WAN, THE ASSOCIATE WITH THEIR AND WITH
COMMENTING ON THE TREATMENT OF BOAT PEOPLE AT CHI MA SPOKESMAN SAID THEY WERE NOT SEGREGATED AS THEY COULD
DURING THE DAY AT THE CENTRE OTHER BOAT PEOPLE ROOMMATES AT NIGHT.
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