Britain’s Home Office tells Mugabe refugees they have to return home: What do you call people who put Jews on the train to Auschwitz?
The world press and most of the world’s politicians have been condemning Robert Mugabe and all his works for quite some time now – and though in some cases there has been more than a whiff of kettles calling pots black, they have been right to do so. Mugabe is a monstrous waste of space and in any half-decent universe he would have been forced to suffer as much and die as painfully and slowly as the people and the very country he has ruled and abused for so long.
I don’t need to tell you that the universe doesn’t do decent, or just, or fair. So, most of what has happened in the Zimbabwe case is that various organisations, the media and our show-boating politicians have been making angry & hurt & concerned noises on camera – and almost none more so than the Labour party, which still forms Her Majesty’s Grossly Incompetent government.
Mostly incompetent, that is, since Britain’s Home Office have been sending a lot of letters lately which didn’t get lost in the mail, were not abandoned on trains or stored on now vanished comaputer disks – and more’s the pity, and much more’s the shame:
Letters obtained by The Observer show that the Home Office continues to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence. A removal letter, sent at the end of May to an exiled London-based member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, states: ‘The support that you have been provided with is to be discontinued … You should note that there is no right to appeal against this decision … You must now leave the United Kingdom.’
It’s one of those questions that keeps popping up when you look at human history: Who are the foulest creatures on earth? Monsters like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and, for the moment still on a smaller scale, Robert Mugabe, or the persons, institutions and states that tolerate, condone and sometimes even actively support them? To a certain point monsters just follow where their perverse nature and sick minds lead them. Most of them may follow these urges willingly, gleefully even, but insanity is most probably part of the whole sorry package.
There are no such ‘excuses’ for the ones who choose to live with and accommodate these bloody dictators. Hitler’s vision of a pure, Aryan race was as fatally flawed as it was murderously obscene – but how would you have described a British government at that time who would have supported this policy? Then Prime Minister Chamberlain was happy to sign an agreement which delivered some of Germany’s neighbours into the hands of the Third Reich.
What if he or his successor, like the Home Office now, would have gone further and would have written a letter to the Jewish refugees that had escaped to England, politely informing them that they had to return to Germany and to the waiting ovens, because: ‘The support that you have been provided with is to be discontinued … You should note that there is no right to appeal against this decision … You must now leave the United Kingdom.’?
History has been unkind to the memory of Prime Minister Chamberlain but it should spit on the graves of all those inside the Home Office and the rest of the government who sent these letters and rubber-stamped this despicable policy.
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