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Manchester Iraqis demonstrate against forced deportation

heather | 05.04.2004 16:28

Iraqi refugees demonstrate against deportation in the pouring rain yesterday.



absolutely miserable day... but still a damn sight better than Iraq at the moment which is being torn apart. a situation that our government (which ain't no poodle), bears a lot of responsibility for.

and so, in the pursuit of truth, justice and the american way, blunkett and cronies have decided to deport people through the enforced returns policy. After the fall of Saddam, Iraqi asylum seeker cases have met massive refusal at the appeal court and the Home Office. Their benefits have been stopped and they have also been deprived of accomodation, work permits and access to public services.

First we mess up their country and rip out its economic resources, then we send people back to the hell we co-created.

We should support Iraqi refugees faced with enforced deportation because it is all one fight in the end. The reasons why people suffer across the world are the same, at base, as the reasons why Marshalls/Stancliffe are foaming at the mouth to get into Nine Ladies.

Just follow the money.



heather

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  1. where ? — .
  2. thanks — heather
  3. BS — .
  4. chill "dot" — heather
  5. BS — .
  6. to get back to the point — heather
  7. Dotty — Chris
  8. Just to be clear — heather
  9. If you are that naive !!!! — .
  10. the bbc arrived — me again
  11. Numbers would be interesting — Brian B
  12. : ) — heather
  13. x — x
  14. Thanks Heather — Mayler
  15. Thanks — Hermes
  16. Special delivery for "dot" — freethepeeps
  17. Oh and "dot" — freethepeeps
  18. A Response from An Iraqi — mohammed
  19. Iraq — LB
  20. To LB — annon
  21. UK scraps scheme to send home Iraqi exiles — freethepeeps