UN High Commissioner for Refugees to collaborate in arranging
an orderly departure. Refugees are being consigned, in
overloaded and unsuitable boats, to conditions in which
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more than half are reckoned to lose their lives.
ADDITIONAL POINTS
4. Evidence of government harassment and organisation of the
exodus strongly indicates a centrally directed deportation
policy aimed at the wholesale expulsion of the ethnic Chinese
community a policy from which the Vietnamese derive
considerable financial gain.
5.
In North Vietnam ethnic Chinese have been dismissed from
government employment, forbidden to work in some 15 specified
occupations or to conduct private business.
allowed to associate with other Vietnamese.
They are not
Chinese schools
have been closed and Chinese children not allowed to attend
Vietnamese schools or learn a trade.
Those forced over the
craftsmen
border into China include carpenters, fishermen,
and factory workers.
6.
Harassment by public security officials includes imprison-
ment without cause and looting of houses,
Ethnic Chinese
have to choose between leaving the country or being sent to
a "new economic zone", where they live in conditions of
hardship. In either case, their property is confiscated.
Threats have been made of "liquidation" or imprisonment in
the event of future hostilities with China.
7. In South Vietnam, in the predominantly Chinese city
of Cholon, more than 30,000 private businesses were offensively closed down a year ago and residents forced into "new economic
zones". The departure overseas of ethnic Chinese is now
government controlled and directed by radio and poster
announcements of registration arrangements.
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