Example sentences of "returned to vietnam " in BNC.

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1 Mr Hurd won Tory cheers as he said : ‘ Unless it is clear to people in Vietnam that those who do not qualify as refugees will be returned to Vietnam , Hong Kong faces the prospect of tens of thousands more arrivals in 1990 .
2 By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent .
3 When the American chargé at Saigon ( Edmund Gullion ) called on him in June he said he had returned to Vietnam because of French assurances that seemed to promise independence .
4 On being returned to Vietnam , Phan Boi Chau was sentenced to a term of hard labour , later commuted to house arrest ( he remained in Hue till his death in 1940 ) .
5 The British Government has agreed that Vietnamese who are found not to be refugees should be returned to Vietnam .
6 During the period March 1989-March 1990 , 1,582 boat people had voluntarily returned to Vietnam .
7 The participants reaffirmed on March 26 their commitment to the Comprehensive Plan of Action , agreed in June 1989 [ see pp. 36733-34 ] , which introduced screening procedures to differentiate between recognized refugees fleeing political persecution ( who would be settled in various countries ) , and economic migrants ( who would be returned to Vietnam , in principle on a voluntary basis ) .
8 On Dec. 1 a group of 226 Vietnamese refugees returned to Vietnam from Hong Kong under the UNHCR Volunteer Repatriation Programme .
9 Asia Watch , the US-based human rights group , had been quoted as saying the previous week that 133 members of the Nung ethnic group held in Hong Kong refugee camps faced persecution if they were returned to Vietnam .
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