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        "msgid": "boatpeople-in-hk-reduced-to-20000-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-03-06 00:00:00",
        "title": "Boatpeople in HK reduced to 20,000",
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        "summary": "Boatpeople in HK reduced to 20,000 HONG KONG (AFP): The number of Vietnamese boatpeople in Hong Kong detention camps has dropped to less than 20,000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said yesterday. UNHCR said the number has dropped to 19,293, down 55 percent from 42,717 in 1992. Since March 1989 some 46,655 Vietnamese have left voluntarily under UNCHR-organized schemes. So far, 765 have left this year, with another batch leaving Friday.",
        "content": "<p>Boatpeople in HK reduced to 20,000<\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG (AFP): The number of Vietnamese boatpeople in Hong<br>\nKong detention camps has dropped to less than 20,000, the United<br>\nNations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>UNHCR said the number has dropped to 19,293, down 55 percent<br>\nfrom 42,717 in 1992. Since March 1989 some 46,655 Vietnamese have<br>\nleft voluntarily under UNCHR-organized schemes. So far, 765 have<br>\nleft this year, with another batch leaving Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with China's demand that all boat people be cleared from<br>\nHong Kong's camps before the colony returns to China next year,<br>\nthe government started forced repatriations, which triggered<br>\nrioting and fierce resistance from inmates.<\/p>\n<p>The protests have reportedly prompted several airlines,<br>\nincluding Continental Micronesia, Royal Brunei and Cathay<br>\nPacific, to turn down the job of flying the reluctant returnees<br>\nhome for fear of bad publicity.<\/p>",
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