Volume 36, Number 18 · November 23, 1989

The Boat People in Peril

By William Shawcross

The Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong are living in appalling conditions. Some are locked in cages in vast hangars. Others have been dumped on islands with no facilities. Most have no hope of resettlement. They know this before they leave Vietnam.



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