Rwanda is generally a nice place to be nowadays. It’s warm but not too hot. And cool in the evenings because its thousand mountains are five thousand feet in the air.
The people are very nice and friendly and, if you migrate (or are exiled there) you need about £100 a week to live on in a country where cars cost about £1,500, diesel is about three quid a gallon, you can get a good solid house for about £10,000 and beer costs you about 75p a pint.
Unemployment is below 2pc too … so, come to Rwanda, get an average job, an average house, an average car, an average standard of living. And a cheap beer!
And there are guerrillas playing happily somewhere in the mist too.
Nice for our immigrants who may have just fled war and genocide, tyranny and death.
They look just like Brits going on holiday to Blackpool as they traipse across our telly screens … Tesco bags of memories and photographs in their mits, dressed in all the clothing they can wear to keep warm, gripping the hands of their young children who themselves grip fluffy toys…
But they’ve fled madmen, bullets and bombs over mountains and deserts, winterlands and vultures, they’ve done deals with criminals and killers to jump in a leaky boat to freeze in the dark in shipping channels where any second you could ride a wave in to the After Life.
In Blackpool you just phone up Mrs McManus, from |Belfast, at the Seaview Guest House next to the Prom and a Greek kebab shop, a Chinese chippy, an India take-away and an Italian restaurant.
Very cosmopolitan … hang on! They’re not immigrants too are they?
But wait! All you whinging illegal migrants – that very nice big bashful bunny Boris and his pretty assistant Patel have sorted it all out for you!
They’ve even come up with a Bog-Off offer for you – yeh Bog Off to Rwanda!
And they’ll even pay about £20,000 each for you to go there!
Do you know, for that money they could have got you a business class ticket (they didn’t) – far better than trying to find a new life on a wing and a prayer heh!
Whatchoo moaning at? You fled thousands of miles for your lives, headed for countries, like the UK, which are seen as sanctuaries, not kangaroo courts like Australia where people are left at the coast to drift into oblivion.
Yep! Arrive in the UK and get a free plane ticket to the land of a thousand mountains in a place time has almost forgotten.
One warning though, as you step off your 4,000 mile flight from the rainy climes of the UK, be careful not to slip on the blood at the doors of the airport, blood on the streets, blood in the house, the schools, the farms and the fields.
Yes, Rwanda is a landlocked country in central and eastern Africa, best-known in the UK for its 1994 ethnic genocide.
In 100 days of a brutal civil war, up to 800,000 Tutsi people were murdered, with many of them hacked to death in their homes by armed militias of the Hutu majority.
Up to half a million women were raped as violence gripped the country. Neighbours turning on neighbours.
But, don’t worry, everybody says it is far safer now than it used to be … in fact a new report only attacks Rwanda for ‘highly questionable’ human rights record.
US State Department produced its annual analysis of the country highlighting unlawful or arbitrary killings, forced disappearance, torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, arbitrary detention, of political prisoners or detainees, arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy.
The report said: ‘The government took some steps to prosecute or punish officials who committed abuses and acts of corruption, including within the security services, but impunity involving civilian officials and some members of the state security forces is a problem.’
In a separate report, Amnesty International says similar things: ‘Violations of the rights to a fair trial, freedom of expression and privacy continue, alongside enforced disappearances, allegations of torture and excessive use of force.’
Is that what that Big Bad Bouncy Easter Bunny and that ever-so Pritti Patel really want for our migrants, so many of them came to us hoping democracy and compassion would help them step out of hell?
Now, why are we sending them there?
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Reading the editor’s piece about the latest manner our government proposes to solve the problem of illegal immigration via The Channel or lorries, serves only to confirm my own immediate reaction to Priti Patel’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda. She has to be prepared to take full responsibility for the plan issuing a rare administrative direction; only the second such direction at the Home Office in 30 years. Today, Easter Sunday, Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury addressed serious ethical questions of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda. I quote these facts from a BBC News source but my own immediate reaction is further confirmed as I read and listen to the hisory of Rwanda’s past issues with Human Rights. They also report that no other country in the world is using this measure, though it is being considered and watched by others. The ethical considerations of sending refugees thousands of miles into Central Africa where they will be vetted as ‘legal’ or illegal’ raises the question of what if they are deemed illegal. Present thinking seems to be that they will be sent to another country considered fit by Rwanda and who is willing to take them. If they are found to be ‘legal’ they will be given five years to live in Rwanda. Will any of this stop the smuggling gangs who take the people’s money and put them in grave danger on the journey? Until we know a lot more, at present this is prone to become one of the most serious forms of total loss of International Human Rights.