I've just been listening to a programme on Radio 4 the Archive Hour
"The Shanghai Sailors" about the deportation / repatriation of hundreds of Chinese seamen who served on British ships during WWII. As the presenter said the actions of the British Government were highly questionable legally and morally unsavoury. This story will bring tears to your eyes.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archivehour/pip/tqr27Memorial aims to soothe 60 years of families' agony(Daily Post (Liverpool) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge 26th January, 2006)
Chinese merchant seamen who served Britain during both world wars were honoured in a moving ceremony at Liverpool's Pier Head yesterday.
Among those commemorated in the plaque were the hundreds of Chinese seamen who, exactly sixty years ago, were forcibly repatriated to their native land after being recruited to help keep the vital Atlantic sea lanes open during World War II.
They were sent back to China despite settling in Liverpool and starting families.
www.vindicatrix-originalnswact.org/pages/a-sad-story-from-liverpool-25012006.phpLiverpool's lost Chinese sailors Many ships bound for Asia left from Liverpool docks. A BBC Radio 4 documentary has shed light on the legally questionable ways in which British government officials dealt with Chinese sailors after World War II.
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