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majority northerners.

We can be cautiously optimistic that the signal sent by the repatriation of a group of non-volunteers last December, coupled with subsequent widespread publicity campaigns,

has registered, at least among the communities of the north of

Vietnam, that the journey to Hong Kong is, for all but genuine

refugees, fruitless.

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