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Kai Tak Transit Centre
3-7697426
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3-76985-07/8 AIPA
The Kai Tak Transit Centre is an open ceatre managed by the Hong Kong Red Cross, a voluntary agency appointed by the UNHCR.
Brief History
Most of the Kai Tak buildings date from the mid-1930s. Gray Block is the most recent, built in 1971. The buildings formed part of the old RAF Station, Kai Tak providing quarters, messes, offices, stores and workshops. They were handed back to HK Government in early 1977 after the RAF had moved to its new base in the New Territories.
They were reopened as a Vietnamese refugee centre in January 1979, managed by a combined forces, monitored by tre Jecurity Branch, from the Prisons Department, Police, Civil And Services and Auxiliary Medical Services,
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HK hed Cross took over management in August 1979, under UNHCR auspices. There were then over 56,000 refugees in Hong Kong, 14,800 of whom were in the dai Tak North Cang (23 it was then known). As other centres closed East in December 1931 and Argyle ↳ in April 1982 - their residual populations were transferred to Kai Tak North. In April 1982, Kai Tak North Camp became Kal Tak Transit Centre by then the only open centre.
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The disturbances at Kai Tak Transit Centre in May 1982 provoked an exodus of 1,000 refugees to occupy the old site of the argyle ↳ Camp. As a result, a second open centre, Jubilee Transit Centre in Shan Shun to Was opened on 2 June 1982, managed by Caritas Hong Kong also under UNHCR auspices.
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There were disturbance from 1 to early 4 May. As a result of the major disturbance on 3 4 May, 115 were charged with riot or possession of offensive weapons and 57 were imprisoned. The causes were probably a combination of the realities and frustrations of decreasing resettlement prospects, Northern/Southern differences, unruly youths, a lack of privacy and permanence, finally, gatherings outside huts sparked off fights between gango/
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refugees.
Kai Tak Transit Centre has a capacity of 6,000
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