It sends out the message that Britain does not really care about democracy and human rights
The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether by exploiting guilt over genocide, pretending to prove the success of aid donations or pandering to their inflated egos.
Scotland Yard has had to warn dissidents in Britain over Kagame’s hit squads, while even the real-life hero of the filmYet Sunak’s response to that verdict was to drive through a new measure to forcibly send a few migrants and refugees into the arms of this grotesque regime before the election, calling it the Safety of Rwanda Bill in a truly Orwellian twist.to win back support from fed-up voters as it confronts the prospect of electoral wipeout after 14 dismal years in office.
Those Supreme Court judges even pointed out the UK itself criticised Rwanda over “extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture”, and highlighted a 2018 incident when police opened fire and slaughtered protesting refugees. As the Tory MP Andrew Mitchell told Parliament, it would be cheaper to put each asylum seeker in the Ritz Hotel and send all the under-18s to Eton than to pursue this “incredibly expensive” plan. He proposed the “much more sensible” approach of recruiting sufficient civil servants to process claims faster – before performing the sort of humiliating U-turn that makes voters despair of Westminster, by defending the scheme after being made a minister.
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