CHINESE REQUEST
5000 Ask To Go Home (N.Z.P. A.Reuter—Copyright) DJAKARTA, May 11. More than 5000 Chinese in Medan, North Sumatra, hive asked the Indonesian Government to request Peking to send a ship to take them to' China, Antara News Agency! reported yesterday. Colonel Jacub Raki, chair-1 man of the team in charge' of | repatriating Chinese in North Sumatra, said the Chinese, had been living in barracks; in Medan since being expelled four years ago from Atjeh. a Moslem province at the northern tip of the island. Colonel Raki added that some of the Chinese had said that they wanted to stay in Indonesia and apply for citizenship. About 7000 Chinese were driven out of Atjeh during a violent anti-Chinese campaign after the 1965 abortive Communist coup. More than) 1000 went by sea to China. I
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32295, 13 May 1970, Page 12
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