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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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THE

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.

/"WE HAVE