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Thank you for your letter of 28 October entitled "Closed
Camps and Closed Hearts."
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To take first your points on the policy of closed camps
in Hong Kong. As you will know, we and the Hong Kong
Government have always regarded the closed camps as a
temporary arrangement which should cease to be necessary
once the flow of illegal departures from Vietnam has
reduced to a trickle. Within the constraints of the
closed camp policy, the Hong Kong Government seeks to do
all that it can to make conditions in the camps as humane
as possible. As you have seen for yourself, it provides
the refugees with accommodation, food, medical attention,
and educational, recreational, and vocational training
facilities, and employs specially recruited and trained
staff to work in the camps. Voluntary agencies provide a
range of social services to refugees in each of the camps.
and representatives from among the refugees are able to
discuss various aspects of camp life at daily meetings
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