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PQ: HONG KONG: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

BACKGROUND NOTE

1. Dr Marshall asks this question regularly. The last time was on 22 December 1982, when there were 12,779 Vietnamese

refugees in Hong Kong. The fall in numbers since then is

because so far this year over 200 refugees have arrived in

Hong Kong from Vietnam and some 600 have been resettled

elsewhere.

2.

The total of 12,395 is divided as follows:

i.

in UNHCR centres

ii. in Government accommodation

(awaiting departure from open

3.

8,622

iii.

centres for resettlement)

under detention (having entered

illegally from China)

96

197

iv.

in closed centres

3,480

The figures were provided by the Hong Kong Government.

HONG KONG AND GENERAL DEPARTMENT

24 MARCH 1983

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