The World : Viet Refugees Refuse to Eat
About 2,000 Vietnamese “boat people” began a hunger strike in Hong Kong to protest a policy that treats them as illegal immigrants subject to repatriation. The refugees at a detention center in the Shatin district refused to eat after officials began screening under a year-old policy that makes them subject to deportation unless they can prove they fled political persecution. Another 492 Vietnamese refugees sailed into Hong Kong waters and were towed to Tai A Chau, an outlying island without any shelter. They joined 270 refugees sent to the island earlier in the week.
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