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BRITISH COLUMBIA: Chinese migrants begin hunger strike



Monday, November 8, 1999

VANCOUVER -- Forty-five of the female Chinese migrants being held at the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women began a hunger strike Saturday morning because they are frustrated that they have not been released.

A friend of one of the refugees said the women are being told that their identities have been verified but that they cannot leave until their bail is paid. Officials at the centre would not comment on the hunger strike. The women are refusing all food but water.

This summer, four boats carrying nearly 600 Chinese migrants -- most from the province of Fujian -- crossed the Pacific and landed in British Columbia. CP




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