California IN BRIEF : WESTMINSTER : Vietnamese Protest Repatriation Plan
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About 500 people held a noisy but peaceful demonstration in Orange County’s Little Saigon to protest the forced repatriation of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong. The marchers, mostly local Vietnamese-Americans, waved placards and banners denouncing a recent agreement between British authorities in Hong Kong and the Communist Vietnamese government. The Oct. 29 agreement provides for the forced repatriation of all Vietnamese in Hong Kong who are found to be economic rather than political refugees.
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