85-10-21
22:18
3404 HKGOVT G
FOR JEAFFRESON, SECRETARY FOR SECURITY
FROM WOODHOUSE IN NEW YORK
21 OCT 85
NY/GEN/180
COPIED TO HKG OFFICES IN WASHINGTON, BRUSSELS,
GENEVA (PL COPY TO ADAMS AT UKMIS) LONDON (PL COPY TO LEEKS AT FCO)
DISCUSSIONS WITH VOLAG REPRESENTATIVES IN LONDON
AT THEIR REQUEST, I MET PETER SHELLEY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT, SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND AND CLAUDE JULIEN WARING FROM QUAKER PEACE AND SERVICE ON 13 OCTOBER.
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BOTH WERE INTERESTED IN UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AND THE DIS- ABLED. I SAID THAT WE HAD FEW IN EITHER CATEGORY IN HONG KONG. BUT I AGREED TO HAVE SOME TABLES PREPARED TO DEMONSTRATE THE NUMBER OF
A) FAMILIES
B) SINGLE MALES
C) SINGLE FEMALES, AND
D) UNACCOMPANIED MINORS
E) DISABLED IN EACH CENTRE.
GRATEFUL IF SIMON SIT WOULD INITIATE THIS.
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MS. JULIEN WARING WAS INTERESTED IN
A) THE PUNISHING OF REFUGEES BY THEIR QUOTE PRISON UNQUOTE
GUARDS.
B) DELAYS TO MAIL DELIVERIES (THE BRC BEHIND BARBED WIRE
C)
ACCUSATION)
THE FACT THAT UNACCOPANIED MINORS WERE QUOTE LOCKED AWAY UNQUOTE FROTHER REFUGEES.
I WAS QUITE BLUNT IN REPLY, I SAID THAT WE DID NOT HAVE STORM- TROOPERS LOOKING OM AFTER THE REFUGEES, BUT SHE WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT SOME REFUGEES WERE BAD-HATS. THERE WERE NO (NO) DELAYS TO MAIL. HER ACCUSATION ABOUT UNACCOPMANIED MINORS WAS PREPOSTEROUS.
I OFFERED TO TAKE HER OR ANY OF HER QUAKER COLLEAGUES IN HONG KONG AROUND THE CAMPS TO DEMONSTRATE HOW WE DEALT WITH THE REFUGEES.
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SHELLEY SAID THAT HIS STAFF AT BOWRING HAD BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT A MOTHER WHO HAD BEEN PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND, THEREBY, SEPARATED FROM HER CHILD. GRATEFUL IF SIMON SIT WOULD LOOK INTO THIS.
7. SHELLEY ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS GLAD THAT I WOULD BE SEEING BOB REESE TO IRON OUT THE CONCERNS OF THE SCF STAFF AT BOWRING. I SAID THAT I WOULD PROBABLY BE ABLE TO SORT OUT THE DIFFICULTIES OVER SECURITY AND MORE SPACE BUT THE PROBLEMS OVER THE USE OF CASH IN BOWRING AND THE PAYMENT FOR KNITTING WERE MORE INTRACTABLE. HOWEVER, I DID NOT (NOT) WANT THEM TO COME BETWEEN US AND I HAD
WHEN BEEN RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR BOB REESE SAY ON THE PHONE, WE SPOKE ON THE DAY I LEFT HONG KONG, THAT SCF LONDON MIGHT HAVE TO PULL OUT OF BOHRING SHELLEY SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT THE CASE, BUT IT. MERELY INDICATED HOW CONCERNED SCF STAFF WERE ABOUT THE SITUATION:
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8. GRATEFUL IF SIMON SIT, AS WE AGREED BEFORE I LEFT HONG KONG, WOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS CONCERNING SCF AND HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH IT”**
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