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Protest at home office by Zimbabwean refugees.

Guido | 30.01.2005 14:27 | London | World

Refugees protest over home office ruling that could see them deported.






Even America's neo-cons describe Zimbabwe as an 'outpost of tyranny'. However that has not stopped the home office from announcing its intention to start deporting refugees back to Mugabe's torture chambers. The home office is under pressure from the government to meet it's deportation targets and Zimbabwe has been out of the news for long enough for them to think that they can get away with it. The 300 demonstraters who attended Saturday's demo said that if anything Zimbabwe is now more dangerous for opposition activists than it has ever been. Speeches were made in support of the refugees by Jeremy Corbyn MP, The NUJ deputy president and Respect. There were also some very emotional first hand accounts of repression suffered by activists and journalists under the Mugabe regime. There seemed to be no media interest at all from the mainstream British media despite their eagerness to run front page headlines whenever a white farmer gets killed out there. The demo ended with a number of protest songs. They would have been beaten and imprisoned for singing the same songs in their own country.

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Lord Carrington

30.01.2005 18:25

Bilderberger Lord Carrington was Chairman of the Lancaster House Conference, which led to the so called 'solution' of the Rhodesian problem and the creation of the independent Republic of Zimbabwe in 1981

 http://global-elite.org/wiki/index.php/Lancaster_House_Conference

 http://global-elite.org/wiki/index.php/Bilderberg_Group

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censorship out of control

30.01.2005 19:42

why on earth have you hidden this comment

your censorship policy is way out of control and makes your "hidden agenda" completely obvious..............

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30.01.2005 23:17

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IMC'er


Thanks to CDAS

30.01.2005 23:23

This looks to have been a great demo and I hope it produces results for those under threat of deportation. There is scope for co-operation between the Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers and a wide range of groups who are also opposing the Mugabe/Zanu PF regime. The International Socialist Tendency, Amnesty International, anarchist groups and gay organisations like OutRage! are all defending people suffering under the government in Harare.

Bizarrely, though, there are still a couple of left wing organisations that believe it is 'anti-imperialist' to suport the Mugabe government. All are tiny, but the newspapers published by the CPGB(M-L), the RCPB(M-L) and the EPSR Group all claim that the Zimbabwean government are subject to Anglo-American smear campaigns and plots to overthrow it because of the land redistribution programme.

Indpendent Left


the artical is good

01.07.2005 09:35

this artical is good but is it true

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