TNAG-0912-FCO40-1122-Policy-on-housing-and-resettlement-in-Hong-Kong-1979 — Page 78

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(MR9.) E. ELLIOTT.

TEL. 8-427414

YOUR REP

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65. Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong.

KOWLOON.

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while our own local people are treated like rats and left homeless?

What changed the landlord's offer on 24th. May? Did he make an

arrangement with the police that day to remove the people without paying

the promised compensation?

3. How can people inside or at the doors of their homes be charged with

unlawful assembly? (Some ran out to see what was happening out of curiosity)

4. Do police have the unlimited right to beat, arrest and charge anyone they

think fit?

5. In the above incident, who were the law-breakers, the people or the police?

Infuriated at what must be the only possible answers to the above

questions, I now demand from the Hong Kong Government:

1. That immediate steps be taken to build huts for the homeless families

and to force the landlord to pay the costs as promised on the morning

of 24th. May, 1979;

2. That compensation be paid by the Government/Police to those injured,

and that the damaged houses not involved in the clearance be repaired;

3. That all charges against the villagers be cancelled;

4. That charges he laid against those police who were responsible for

ordering this gangster-like behaviour.

Copies of this report are being sent to some "embers of Parliament

and to the press.

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