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PS/ SL Renton
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enclosing a
You wrote to Tim Eggar on 6 October,
copy of a letter from Mr John Collingwood of 22 Birwood
Park Road, Walton in Thames, Surrey, KT12
referred to the Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong.
5LJ,
which
are
I should say first that no refugees in Hong Kong
"shut
up
in
cages".
Your
constituent
is
presumably referring to Hong Kong's closed refugee camps: in these camps refugees sleep in tiered a bunks but
they are able
to
move about
boundaries.
Conditions
are not
freely within
excessively
the
camp
crowded,
particularly when compared with the conditions in which
many Hong Kong people live.
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Your constituent also seems to be mistaken about the
number of people in closed camps. At present there are
some 4,900 refugees in such camps in Hong Kong out of a
total of 8,400 Vietnamese refugees in the territory.
The
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