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Treating refugees like ‘waste people’ is abhorrent, wherever they end up

The government is trying to hide its own views of Rwanda

But the problem with the plan goes deeper

  • Kenan Malik
  • The Observer

”There are state control, security, surveillance structures from the national level down… Political opposition is not tolerated and arbitrary detention, torture and even killings are accepted methods of enforcing control too.”

The email from a Foreign Office official to colleagues in the Home Office in response to Britain’s plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was disclosed during a court case last week, during which a number of media organisations and potential deportees were attempting to force the government to make public information it…

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