TNAG-0969-FCO40-1188-Human-rights-in-Hong-Kong-1980 — Page 36

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Thereafter, the landlords had many negotiations with the Government

on the basis that they wanted compensation of a flat for a flat

of the same size in Tsuen Wan area but the Government refused the

fair deal. Instead, she insisted on compensating the landlords

with money which was not enough for them to buy back a flat of equal size and comparable quality.

Since then, the Government used many ways to harass the landlords, such as blocking the roads of access, threatening to cut water and electricity supply etc.

On the other hand, the Government tried to fool the public by playing around with compensation figures but never agreed to compensate flat for flat.

Landlords appealed to England but the reply was that the British Government was not going to investigate the matter and believed that the Hong Kong Government had done rightly.

Several Members of Parliament, of the Labour Party visited the people and expressed sympathy for them.

Near the day of evacuation, some landlords were under so much stress and such harassment by the Government that they threatened to commit suicide.

Two landlords were arrested and charged during an occasion when

a group of landlords went to take down an iron gate erected illegally by the Government to block an aceess road to the ar

Also the remaining landlords were finally forcefully vacated from their home by several hundred policemen from the Police Tactical Unit with the aid of water hosts and teargas in late September 1979.

3. DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

(1) These are only two of the hundreds of similar events happening

here daily in Hong Kong.

(2)

These two cases got more publicity (On Lok Chuen Incident also) because the Government used excessive brutality and the

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