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DR. ANTHONY NG

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Dear

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20 JAN 1988

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We, the undersigned, are a group titioners who have made Hong Kong our home. the House of Commons will soon have a debate Hong Kong.

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of medical prac- We understand that оп the future of

We are not ungrateful about what your government have

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done for our community in the past. We have enjoyed years of relative stability and prosperity. We also appreciate the ef- forts your Government put into negotiating the Joint Declaration with China. We were among those who felt that the Joint Declara- tion provided a workable framework on which we could based Cur future.

However, events that transpired during the three years since the initialing of the Joint Declaration left us the impres- sion of betrayal by your Government. You are far away and may not be awared of events in Hong Kong. Even before the ink on the Joint Declaration was dry, already there had been serious viola- tion of the spirit, if not the actual letter, of the Joint Declaration.

The Joint Declaration stipulated that "the legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be con- stituted by elections. The executive authorites shall abide by the law and shall be accountable to the legislature”.

By elections, it must be taken to mean by no other the one usually practised. Forms of election are now being proposed by the Hong Kong government-unheard of and unpracticed anywhere else in the civilized world.

Accountable is now being taken to mean

casional reports -

three years.

Confidence in Hong Kong has greatly dropped in the last One survey indicated that the percentage of people who felt that the Joint Declaration was acceptable had dropped from 81 % to 28 %. We certainly are one of these people and can bear this out with our experience with the people around us.

we

Hong Kong is our home and we have no desire to emigrate to Britain. But we feel that the people of Hong Kong are being betrayed. We are being handed over to a Communist regime without adequate safeguard even to half way fend Kong is being transformed from a British colony into a Chinese

colony.

for

ourselves.

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Hong

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