GF 323
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(46
CONFIDENTIAL ##
MENO
SF/404-123
From : Commissioner of Police (DSB)
Po
Ref.
Tel.:
5-284284 Ext.204
Date : 6th August 1981
HKE 341/2
Adviser.
RECEIVED IN DERRY NO. 51
0 4 SEP1981
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No Masa
Vietnamese Refugees Ex-China L/M 1397
RAPSTAY jAction Takan
Masa pas 7/9
On 22nd June 1981, a wooden Chinese river rowing boat, measuring 12 m x 2 m arrived in Hong Kong with 40 passengers on board. With the exception of 2 female Vietnamese, the remainder were ethnic Chinese. All claimed to have left Dawang Overseas Chinese Farm on 19th June 1981. The group arrived in Macau on 21st June 1981, but were not permitted to land. En route to Macau they were stopped by Chinese militia personnel in Zhongshan (0022/1472) County, where they were questioned and the boat was searched. After satisfying themselves that all the passengers were Overseas Chinese or Vietnamese the militia personnel demanded a payment of RMB 250 to allow their onward passage to Macau.
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The attached interview report is from a passenger from the boat who claimed to have left Vietnam in 1978 via Friendship Pass and was resettled in an Overseas Chinese Farm (OCF) in Guangxi, Zhuang Autonomous Region where he worked as a driver. Source claimed that life on the OCF was hard, and that as he knew that many Overseas Chinese had been able to escape from Dawang, he made his way to Dawang with his family to arrange his escape. Once at Dawang he was able to purchase a boat from a nearby commune and returning to Dawang he recruited the escape party. On 18th July 1981 Source collected the boat as arranged and he and his party left the Shali (3097/ 3468) area of Dawang on 19th July under cover of darkness.
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C.C.
A photograph of the boat is attached.
for S (3)
APA (7)
D of I (3)
S for Info
D of Info Services
D of Marine
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GS02 Local Int
(J.M. Shannon)
for Director of Special Branch
for Commissioner of Police
JMS/GNS/d1
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