TNAG-1802-FCO40-2562-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-the-UK-1988 — Page 110

THAMES TV: "THIS WEEK"

Shape of programme for 15 December

1. Programme opens with filming of the Hong Kong police coming alongside a Vietnamese boat with 66 people on board and the boat

being taken to Hong Kong.

2. Interview with Mike Hanson, Refugee Coordinator of the Hong Kong

Government, who briefly describes the problem from the Hong Kong angle in the following terms:

Different kind of boat people (economic refugees mainly farmers

and fishermen from the north who are not fleeing

persecution)

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Compassion fatigue setting in among the normal resettlement

countries.

Description of the screening process and possible repatriation

arrangements.

3. First segment of interview with Secretary of State on 16 June

policy and involuntary repatriation.

4. Film narrative describing the camps in Hong Kong.

5. Interview with refugee lawyer whose underlying theme is justice delayed is justice denied.

6. Recording of Radio Hong Kong being beamed to Vietnam which