TNAG-1071-FCO40-1321-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-in-other--1981 — Page 13

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REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT APPLICATION LY TUYEN TUONG

1. OUR CONSULAR SECTION IS SUBMITTING TO YOU, THROUGH NOR MAL CHANNELS, AN APPLICATION FOR RESETTLEMENT IN HONG KONG, ON FAMILY REUNION BASIS, FOR ABOVE ETHNIC CHINESE VIETNAMESE

REFUGEE CURRENTLY IN KHAO I DANG,

2. ICRC HAVE DRAWN OUR ATTENTION TO HIS CASE, AS ABOVE NAMED

COMES UNDER THEIR CARE RATHER THAN UNHRC. SUBJECT WAS A VIETNAMESE

LAND REFUGEE, THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF KHMER ROUGE MASSACRE OF VIETNAMESE

AT CAMBODIAN BORDER ON 7 JUNE 1981.

3. SUBJECT CLAIMS TO HAVE BROTHER AND SISTER IN HONG KONG AS

FOLLOWS:-

SISTER: LEE SHUPING, FLAT 458 4/F BLOCK 14 LOWER WANG TAISIN ESTATE, KOWLOON.

BROTHER: LY TUYEN KIET, GQ YEE SHAN MANSION TAI KAO SHING.

THE THAIS HAVE AGREED, EXCEPTIONALLY, THAT LY MAY BE RESETTLED

OVERSEAS RATHER THAN BE RETURNED TO BORDER CONCENTRATIONS. THERE

COULD BE CONSIDERABLE PRESS INTEREST IN LY'S EVENTUAL FATE.

4. GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE CAREFUL AND SPEEDY CONSIDERATION TO THIS CASE, ONCE YOU RECEIVE APPLICATION, AND LET US KNOW, IN ADVANCE, OF YOUR DECISION.

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