BMI lease plane to UK/France for joint 'Charter flight' to Afghanistan
John O | 16.12.2009 15:59 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World
On Tuesday 15th December, a BMI plane left the UK with a number of Afghans who had been refused asylum in the UK. It stopped at Charles de Gaulle (Roissy/CDG) in France, where Afghans refused asylum in France, were boarded, the flight then departed, destination for the Afghans on board, Kabul.
BMI was asked to comment on the flight but refused to do so.
For several years BMI have been refusing to discuss/listen to the concerns of using their aircraft to forcibly remove people refused asylum from the UK by charter flight.
Campaign Against BMI
NCADC are asking recipients of this message to make their feelings known to BMI.
Please Fax/phone/Email BMI, model letter attached (NigelTurnerBMI.doc), which you can copy/amend or write you own version.
BMI Contact Details
Head office: Donington Hall, Castle Donington, Derby. DE74 2SB
E-mail Nigel Turner, BMI Chief Executive Officer at:
nigel.turner@flybmi.com
Switchboard
Telephone: 01332 854 321 option 6 ~ Fax: 01332 854 875
Open Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm
Customer Relations online feedback:
http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/contact-us/feedback.aspx
Please notify admin@ncadc.org.uk of any messages sent.
'Life for the average Afghan remains short, miserable, and brutal'
As the violence spirals, each year that passes is declared bloodier than the last. 2009 has been no exception, it has been the worst.
Public legitimacy for the Afghan government has fallen to an all time low.
Afghanistan is listed 7th in the 'Failed States Index': Having little or no governance, endemic corruption, profiteering by ruling elites, very poor Human Rights, the government cannot/will not protect the population from others or itself, massive internal conflict, forced internal/external displacement, institutionalised political exclusion of significant numbers of the population, progressive deterioration of welfare infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses) not adequate to meet health, needs, progressive economic decline of the country as a whole as measured by per capita income, debt, severe child mortality rates, poverty levels,
Afghanistan is the second most corrupt state in the world
No one doubts that Afghanistan is experiencing its worst violence since the fall of the Taliban government.
President Hamid Karzai's government has done little to implement the Action Plan for Peace, Reconciliation and Justice, a five-year plan for implementing transitional justice in Afghanistan, part of the Afghanistan Compact which the government officially initiated on December 12, 2006. The legal status of an amnesty for war criminals, passed by parliament in 2007, is still unclear. But the tone of the debate on transitional justice is still being dominated by the influential group of parliamentarians that pushed the resolution through, including Abdul Rabb al Rasul Sayyaf, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Taj Mohammad, all of whom have been implicated in war crimes and other serious human rights abuses. The Karzai administration appears powerless to challenge them.
Data taken from Human Rights Watch, Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development, Transparency International etc.
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Source for this Message:
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For several years BMI have been refusing to discuss/listen to the concerns of using their aircraft to forcibly remove people refused asylum from the UK by charter flight.
Campaign Against BMI
NCADC are asking recipients of this message to make their feelings known to BMI.
Please Fax/phone/Email BMI, model letter attached (NigelTurnerBMI.doc), which you can copy/amend or write you own version.
BMI Contact Details
Head office: Donington Hall, Castle Donington, Derby. DE74 2SB
E-mail Nigel Turner, BMI Chief Executive Officer at:
nigel.turner@flybmi.com Switchboard
Telephone: 01332 854 321 option 6 ~ Fax: 01332 854 875
Open Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm
Customer Relations online feedback:
http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/contact-us/feedback.aspx Please notify
admin@ncadc.org.uk of any messages sent. 'Life for the average Afghan remains short, miserable, and brutal'
As the violence spirals, each year that passes is declared bloodier than the last. 2009 has been no exception, it has been the worst.
Public legitimacy for the Afghan government has fallen to an all time low.
Afghanistan is listed 7th in the 'Failed States Index': Having little or no governance, endemic corruption, profiteering by ruling elites, very poor Human Rights, the government cannot/will not protect the population from others or itself, massive internal conflict, forced internal/external displacement, institutionalised political exclusion of significant numbers of the population, progressive deterioration of welfare infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses) not adequate to meet health, needs, progressive economic decline of the country as a whole as measured by per capita income, debt, severe child mortality rates, poverty levels,
Afghanistan is the second most corrupt state in the world
No one doubts that Afghanistan is experiencing its worst violence since the fall of the Taliban government.
President Hamid Karzai's government has done little to implement the Action Plan for Peace, Reconciliation and Justice, a five-year plan for implementing transitional justice in Afghanistan, part of the Afghanistan Compact which the government officially initiated on December 12, 2006. The legal status of an amnesty for war criminals, passed by parliament in 2007, is still unclear. But the tone of the debate on transitional justice is still being dominated by the influential group of parliamentarians that pushed the resolution through, including Abdul Rabb al Rasul Sayyaf, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Taj Mohammad, all of whom have been implicated in war crimes and other serious human rights abuses. The Karzai administration appears powerless to challenge them.
Data taken from Human Rights Watch, Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development, Transparency International etc.
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NCADC
John O
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JohnO@ncadc.org.uk
Homepage:
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Comments
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16.12.2009 18:17
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Slight omission
16.12.2009 19:43
I also think very important to campaign against BMI - and campaign against the invasion of Afghanistan by foreign powers too.
No deportations to Afghanistan! Troops home now!
Chiara
Chiara
I'm on stand by....
17.12.2009 04:18
Actually f*** that, I'm on standy by with my body, a half brick and a cocktail as soon as someone reminds me what day of the month it is,,,
...Deportations under these circumstances aren't far off of murder...
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