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11. The United Kingdom agreed at Geneva in 1979 to accept a further
10,000 refugees in addition to the 1,000 accepted earlier.
About
8,500 of these resettlement places have been filled. A team of
Home Office officials is due to leave for Hong Kong on 27 February
to complete selection for the quota.
However, the
12. There is considerable feeling in Hong Kong that an extension
of the United Kingdom quota will be necessary if the momentum of
the resettlement programme is to be maintained.
resettlement programme in the United Kingdom is facing practical
difficulties with regard to housing and employment. No decision
has yet been made on a further quota and the position will be
reviewed after the Secretary of State's visit to Hong Kong in March.
MACLENNAN AFFAIR
13. Police Inspector MacLennan was to have been arrested in
January 1980 on charges related to homosexual acts (all homosexual
activities are still illegal in Hong Kong). The arresting party
found MacLennan locked in his bedroom dead from five pistol wounds.
Despite overwhelming evidence that MacLennan had committed suicide,
the Coroner's Jury returned an open verdict. This fuelled rumours
that he had been murdered to protect senior government servants
who were also homosexuals.
14. Following increasing concern, both in the United Kingdom and
particularly in Hong Kong, about MacLennan's death, the Governor
set up a judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the death
and the circumstances surrounding it. The Commission has not yet
finished its investigations. It would, therefore, be inappropriate
to comment on the case.
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