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香港下亞川畢道
DIEU
SRD 602/8/C
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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
1 February 1988
Mr Chris Bale
Director
Oxfam
Room 604
Hong Kong Bank Building
673 Nathan Road
Mongkok
Kowloon
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OXFAM Report
"Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong :
The Way Forward"
I refer to His Excellency the Governor's letter of 30 December 1987 and my own interim reply of 23 December. We have studied this report and have the following comments on it.
At the outset I should say that we welcome the report as a constructive contribution to discussion of this continuing problem and are grateful for the time and effort which OXFAM (Hong Kong) has devoted to its preparation. While we may have disagreements over points of detail, the report is a comprehensive and generally accurate account of the current refugee situation in Hong Kong.
The report refers to closed centres as "prisons". In fact the only resemblance between a closed centre and a prison is that both places are used for the confinement of people. In all other respects the closed centres are operated under a totally different regime with the refugees given as much freedom as is practically possible within the confines of their place of enforced residence. "Control" is not the main concern. Indeed C.S.D. staffing levels in the closed centres are in no way comparable with those required in a penal institution.
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Private notes are available after approval.