The UK Minister of State for Borders and Immigration, Phil Woolas, announced recently that he was considering the position of enforced returns to Zimbabwe – an issue under review since the Home Office deferred enforced returns to Zimbabwe in September 2006, following a moratorium enforced through the courts.
Taken from the www.ZimDiaspora.com website is an angry comment by one of our brothers, who writes his own reply to the House of Lords, regarding the plight of Zimbabwean Refugees in the UK. He says this:
RYTON DZIMIRI, November 05, 2009
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Readers please note that Mr. Dzimiri’s opinions and allegations are not necessarily those of ComeHomeToZimbabwe.com
Ed
MY LORDS,
If in Zimbabwe there was no Mugabe who killed 17 000 Shonas 1975-1980, 30 000 Ndebeles 1980-1991, 2 000 MDC 1999-2009, 120 black farm workers 2001-2009, 22 white farmers 2001-2009. I Ryton Dzimiri would have come to Britain only for 9 days holiday and gone back home.
My home my Lords is sweeter than anything I see in UK. I miss my poor gravel roads and the blue skies and I am willing to go back home. I am willing to go back to a home where I will be able to criticise the government without risking my life.
My Lords, if by any chance you have a chance to read this article, I want to send you a clear message that Zimbabwe is what it is today my Lords partly because of wrong decisions you took years back. Remember my Lords that any injustice you impose on anyone today may live to haunt your children a century to come. We now live in a fast interdependent world where Zimbabwean politics can cause regime change in Britain.
You will remember my Lords that Mugabe got an opportunity to become Prime minister because of the ill treatment and evil land distribution by British perpetuated Rhodes. Politics my Lords requires you not to mention these open facts lest you are branded traitors. Although you are required to be mute on this fact for political reason, but at least look at the plight of a Zimbabwean man with a remembering eye.
All decisions you ever choose for Zimbabweans turn to be punitive instead of being compansative. I am talking about SANCTIONS, DEPORTATIONS, REFUSAL OF WORKING RIGHTS TO A ZIMBABWEAN FOR TEN YEARS IN YOUR COUNTRY.
Denying a human being working rights for ten years and expecting that that individual will be helpful once sent to his country is like expecting a centurion to run a marathon.
Sanctions My Lords has produced more refugees this time economic refugees and Britain will pay in years to come as these poor people will humanly use any means to seach for green pastures in UK.
Britain would have gained much much more if they had campaigned for a United Nations Peace keeping force to monitor elections in 2008 than campaign for sanctions. Mugabe would have been forced to accept the verdict of the people by an armed UN force. Sanctions beat the very poor and expect those people in UK in 2020.
PUSH FOR UN MONITORED ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE AND GET THE UN TO ARREST ALL MURDERERS AND SEND THEM TO PRISONS IN SIBERIA. ONCE THERE IS A LAW AND ACTION THAT ALL STATE MURDERES ARE ARRESTED, I PROMISE, YOU WILL NOT SEE MY FACE ON YOUR MIDST AND THAT COUNTRY WILL GET BACK TO ITS WHEELS.
If you cant fix those problems in Zimbabwe my Lords, This writer will not set his foot where human beings are refused the right to complain, criticise, choose a party. A country where children aged 12 are hunted ant tortured at midnight by state agents. A country where state opponents disapear into the thin air. A country where killing civilians is rewardable by government posts. A country where ones tribe can spell doom.
A country led by people who kill with impunity. A country where 6.% deaths are linked to state repression.
Get Mugabe out and his murderers in prison and see if you will see any Zimbabwean on your streets. I would rather live and earn £300,00 a month in a peaceful Zimbabwe than live in Britain earning £3000, 00 a month. Home may be poor, but it is best. Remove Mugabe and Sanctions and I will go without a push.