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HONG KONG:
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM
to Bill Squire 1.
In your letter UN 2/12 of 10 July you asked for background information about the illegal immigrants, all of Chinese descent, who were repatriated from Hong Kong to South Vietnam.
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There has been a fair amount of press and
Parliamentary interest in the fate of the group.
enclose a copy of a written Parliamentary Question
which was put down by James Johnson MP and answered by Mr Hattersley on 10 July. I think your reply to
the Note from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
could be based on this reply. The one man who was
not sent back claimed to have a birth certificate
showing that he was born in Hong Kong. We have since been informed by Hong Kong that the Director of
Immigration has decided that he should not be、
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repatriated. We mutaquently established his right story time.
3. On the return of the group to Saigon it emerged that one (Truong Hong) had previously been condemned to death on smuggling charges. He had however given a false name in Hong Kong; he has since been re-tried and sentenced to hard labour for life.
We understand from Saigon that his sentence is almost
certain to be reduced through the regular amnesties.
I leave it for you to use your own discretion as to
whether or not you mention Truong Hong to the UN High
Commissioner.
4.7 The fact that the illegal immigrants have been
transferred to Con Son Island is not so alarming as it
sounds. There is a steady stream of official visitors
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