HONG KONG (AFP): Three decades after he landed on Hong Kong shores as a child refugee, Vo Van Hung is fighting efforts to deport him to Vietnam now that he has finished a lengthy jail sentence -- for murder.
Vietnam's"boat people" exodus subsided years ago. But Vo, 41, is one of just a handful of remaining refugees whose fate remains undecided.
He was first housed in a notoriously violent refugee camp where tens of thousands of Vietnamese were placed, often for years, until their cases were decided -- most with eventual asylum in other countries. "If they send me back to Vietnam I would rather be locked up here for the rest of my life," he told AFP behind a plexiglass barrier separating inmates and visitors.In the years after the Vietnam War ended some 200,000 Vietnamese arrived in Hong Kong fleeing poverty and persecution by the victorious communists.
Two years ago he won a judicial review against the immigration department's initial decision to deport him. The camp -- on a remote cape called"Whitehead" -- was a rough place, with violence and rape commonplace.Hunger strikes and riots that broke out in 1994 and 1996 were only ended when Hong Kong -- then ruled by Britain -- sent in tear gas wielding police via helicopters and armoured trucks.
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