Since then, the Vietnamese invasion has imposed yet more burdens on the long-suffering Cambodian people.
Noble Lords
will have seen the international condemnation that the
Vietnamese action has caused.
The situation inside Vietnam itself and in Laos, continues
to give cause for grave concern. Many Vietnamese and Laotians are still detained without trial in "re-education" camps. There have been reports of the forced movement of people in Vietnam to new economic zones and of many restrictions on personal, political, religious and other freedoms.
The awful risks to life, which the many thousands of boat refugees who flee from Vietnam are prepared to take on, show clearly that it isnot poverty alone from which they are fleeing. It is most disturbing, moreover, that there are credible reports. that Vietnamese agencies have been organizing and profiting from the departure of these refugees. These reports relate that refugees, on payment of gold, board large ships or small boats and, deprived of their possessions, leave on hazardous voyages to neighbouring countries which have no wish to receive them. It is appalling that any country could permit let alone encourage such a traffic in human lives.
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My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, recently summoned the Vietnamese Ambassador to express his concern about these reports and to say that any dubious practices should be stopped.
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