234 ‘Boat People’ Return to Vietnam
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HONG KONG — A group of 234 Vietnamese “boat people” returned home voluntarily from Hong Kong on Thursday under the U.N. refugee agency’s repatriation program, a government spokesman said.
The group was the 38th to leave under the plan launched by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
A total of 5,133 Vietnamese boat people have been repatriated since the program began in March, 1989, but more than 53,000 remain in camps in Hong Kong.
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