The Tories want to shamefully deport tens of thousands of refugees seeking safety in Britain to Rwanda. Home secretary Priti Patel signed the £120 million deal on Thursday with the east African country, thousands of miles from Britain. Any refugee who’s forced to come to Britain through an “illegal route”—such as crossing the English Channel in a boat, will have a “one-way ticket” to Rwanda. The move will make Britain’s brutal and racist immigration system even worse,and lead to more deaths of people fleeing war, poverty and dictatorship. The plan has been met with outrage,.with U.K. opposition politicians and refugee groups condemning the move as inhumane, unworkable and a waste of public money.
Among these are the United Nations who said it raised “a number of human rights concerns.” with it's regigge coincil declaring it to be " unaxxeptable " and in breach of international law.
The Refugee Action charity said, “Offshoring people 5,000 miles away is a grubby cash-for-people plan and a cowardly, barbaric and inhumane way to treat people fleeing persecution and war.”
Stand Up To Racism said, “We condemn the disgusting, racist and inhumane move to ‘offshore’ those seeking asylum to Rwanda, and support the emergency protests that have been called, so far in London and in Glasgow. This despicable policy is part of a wider intensification of the racist ‘hostile environment’.”
Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee director at Amnesty International U.K., said the British government’s “shockingly ill-conceived idea will go far further in inflicting suffering while wasting huge amounts of public money.”
The UK Government’s racist plans is not the way to treat people seeking safety and sanctuary.This is nothing more than a cynical distraction from the Prime Minister’s law breaking.
People need to stop saying that refugees will be sent to Rwanda for ‘processing’. The policy is to send them there forever - there is no return. It is grotesquely cruel, immoral,shameful and orwellian. This is people trafficking by the Government. They are bribing Rwanda with development funds. It breaches the Refugee Convention.and the anti-trafficking conventions we have signed up to, Which we helped draft when we were still a civilised nation.
The Rwandan government said the agreement would initially last for five years, and Britain had paid 120 million pounds ($158 million) up front to pay for housing and integrating the migrants. Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta said the agreement “is about ensuring that people are protected, respected, and empowered to further their own ambitions and settle permanently in Rwanda if they choose.” He said his country is already home to more than 130,000 refugees from countries including Burundi, Congo, Libya and Pakistan.
What he did not say is that Rwanda has a horrendous human rights record where people 'disappear' on a regular basis, Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said the claim Rwanda was a safe country “is not grounded in reality.” “Arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and torture in official and unofficial detention facilities is commonplace, and fair trial standards are flouted in many cases,” Mudge said.
.In 1998 the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the first time in inter. criminal law found that rape was a form of genocide in the Akayesu case.Tutsi women were systematically raped and killed. It takes decades for such scars to heal. Rwanda isn't a place for refugees.
What about the Rwandan refugees who had their visa applications accepted by the U.K. Home Office last year who deemed Rwanda as a humanitarian concern great enough to grant sanctuary to hundreds of people fleeing persecution. Tories staying tight lipped on that naturally. We are sending people to a state from which we are receiving refugees.It defies all logic and reason. And on top of this the UK recently condemned Rwanda for human rights abuses and now has shamelessly signed a deal to set up Concentration Camps fpr Refugees who are mostly coming from countries that UK/US destroyed mercilessly. As LGBT individuals have faced persecution in Rwanda, how can the UK justify sending LGBT refugees to the country for processing.
The British establishment's real crime is creating those refugees in the first place by bombing, sanctioning and plundering their countries. The blood of millions on their hands.
Nothing can be more heartbreaking than having to flee the place you have been born and brought up in,
70 million people are currently displaced from their homes on account of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations, of these, approximately 25 million are refugees, over half of whom are children under the age of 18, having being forced to leave their home country and take perilous journeys to cross international and national boundaries in search of safety elsewhere. A far larger number of people are displaced within their own country (internally displaced) or displaced for reasons which go beyond persecution and conflict, including drought, hunger, environmental disasters and the effects of climate change. The language used to discuss this Refugee/Rwanda issue is monstrous. BBC reporters asking Rwandan govt: ‘How much money do you want per refugee?’. And ‘outsourcing refugees’. These are people. This is the language of selling fellow human beings. We’re in evil, hellish territory.
Australia, infamous for 'offshoring' refugees, to Papua New Guinea and the tiny inlet of Nauru, vowing that none would be allowed to settle in Australia.is the inspiration for heroic war leader Boris Johnson's grotesque plan to send refugees, who brave the Channel, to Rwanda. The policy was widely criticized as a cruel abrogation of Australia’s international obligations. and described as 'torture' by the UN.
Israel sent several thousand people to Rwanda and Uganda under a contentious and secretive “voluntary” scheme between 2014 and 2017. Few are believed to have remained there, with many trying to reach Europe. It is almost certain that the relocation plans will face legal challenge if or when they come into operation with lawyers saying the set up breaches several articles of the refugee convention.
The Refugee Convention prohibits contracting states from imposing penalties on those entering illegally. Arguably sending asylum seekers to Rwanda does amount to a penalty and will be found unlawful. Imagine taking a private plane you painted in 🇬🇧 flags at taxpayer expense for a PR stunt in Rwanda because you plan to spend billions processing migrants there whilst Ukraine refugees give up on the UK because you made it so hard to get in.. All done by the daughter of migrants.
This ghastly,evil fascist fiend was actually smiling as she talked about her new plan to send refugees to Rwanda concentration camps, for processing . When the dust has settled and everyone has woken up,I trust these disgusting Tory Ministers and sycophant MPs will be whisked off to prison as quickly as they send refugees to Rwanda.
What has this country become? Sending vulnerable refugees to Rwanda is an ugly racist policy. It will cost a shit load more than being a decent society, that treats human beings with dignity, not like rubbish to be dumped wherever will take our cash.
The UN, amnesty international and the refugee council have all stated this will endanger lives I have never been more ashamed of being British. People claiming they stand with Ukraine yet approve a measure that could see desperate Ukrainian refugees sent to Rwanda by the British government they themselves support is a great example of cognitive dissonance. A small minority outraged. Many racists delighted. The majority more interested in Strictly, Bake off, East Enders, Champions League, Top Gear et al. As Ian Kershaw said"The road to Auschwitz was built by by hate, but paved with indifference."
We can’t let this cruel and dangerous plan go ahead, it is unethical, unworkable and, most importantly for the Tory's voter base, unaffordable. The UK will be pouring untold amounts of money into this ludicrous scheme while citizens in this country are unable to afford their gas and electricity bills unsupported by the government. It must ne fought at all costs.
It robs people of their dignity, flies in the dace of British values of compassion and decencyns . We have heardaout the horrific conditions for asylum seekers who are placed in barracks and hotels in the IK and the physical and mental problems they cause.
People fleeing for their lives from war and persecution should be treated with kindness not like criminals. Whatever our differences, we have to recognise our fundamental human obligation to shelter those fleeing from war and persecution, Richer nations must acknowledge refugees for the victims they are, fleeing from wars they were unable to prevent or stop. History has shown that doing the right thing for victims of war and persecution engenders goodwill and prosperity for generations, And it fosters stablity in the long run.
The Tories’ much maligned Nationality and Borders Bill is currently stuck between the House of Commons and Lords. Returning to the Commons next week, after being defeated twice by the Lords, the bill would criminalise any refugee crossing the channel with a penalty of imprisonment of up to four years. It must be vehemently opposed.
The Rwanda plan is a dead cat to deflect from Boris Johnsons lies and criminality, we must not allow them to allow this to happen. Today and tomorrow we must continue to stand up for refugees, and say.they are welcome here, and to help refugees restore their lives,be treated with respect and dignity and allow their voices to remain visible and heard, yo continue to build bridges not more obstacles or borders. As Tories plan to dump asylum seekers in Rwanda, let us remember Tony Benn’s words "The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it."
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