Letter to James Cleverly

James Cleverly

The Home Secretary 

2 Marsham Street Date:16^th May 2024

London

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Mr James Cleverly Stop the Rwanda Plan

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, the International Organisation of Iranian Refugees and the Labour Campaign for Free Movement are calling for this demonstration today to protest against the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. We are joined today by the families and children of the asylum seekers and others in Iraqi, Kurdish, Iranian, Afghani and other communities, MPs and human rights organizations.

The UK government is violently rounding up refugees to be deported to the unsafe country of Rwanda. It is trying to ban the act of seeking refuge. It is unacceptable that the UK Government has made an agreement with the Rwanda Government and is playing with the lives of these refugees.  The UKBA are clearly seeking to legitimize this deportation by an agreement with the Rwandan Government.  

We call on you to respect the rights of all refugees, and not play with their future at a time when many refugees are fleeing from countries plagued by war and violence. The UK must not put the lives of these people at risk. 

The tragedy of refugees on the borders of Europe and Mediterranean Sea is a direct consequence of closing borders to people whose livelihoods and place of residence have turned to battlefield, civil war, unrest and insecurity.  

The issue of refugees and mass migration is the product of the system, crisis, and policies of war and genocide that the capitalists and their states follow and as a result thousands of people have been displaced. Iraqi, Kurdish, Iranian, Afghan, Ukrainian, Palestinian, and North African refugees are all victims of this system, which has left no one secure while hundreds of millions of people face starvation, poverty, unemployment, insecurity, high costs,
climate change, and displacement. They endanger themselves, and their children to escape the brutality of the system. 

The crisis facing refugees places a tremendous responsibility upon European governments. Whilst the UK and Europe are talking about human rights, they have provided no realistic solution to
offer safe and legal alternatives to the wave of refugees making the perilous journey to seek safety in Europe. European countries ignore the fact that they are one of the main reasons for the catastrophes leading to the exodus of refugees from the Middle East. The majority of the
refugees are victims of direct political and military involvement of the US and European countries. It is due to their support of inhuman and repressive systems in the Middle East which are covered with the dress of democracy. They are however nothing more than nationalist, Islamist, and murderous groups. The system that is run by these groups are taking no responsibilities towards the livelihoods of their citizens, and in reality, they have turned society into a hell of confrontations and conflicts between different religious, nationalist and Islamic groups. The reality is that they have turned the society politically and economically into an insecure and unsafe society and have left no chance for a decent living for their citizens.

We are a radical assembly that defends human rights and sees itself as a part of a progressive movement; it fights for the rights of refugees across the world, it works to gain solidarity from human rights organisations worldwide. As part of our responsibility we – International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), the International Organisation of Iranian Refugees and the Labour Campaign for Free Movement– are sending you this letter, asking you to treat refugees in a responsible manner, and not to act in a way that ignores humanitarian considerations. We strongly condemn this forced deportation by the UKBA to Rwanda.

We call on the British government to:

• Stop Rwanda Plan.

• Stop your agreement with Rwanda Government.

• Immediate release of all refugees in detention centres.

• Give all Refugees the Right to stay in the UK.
  

 

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR

The International organisation of Iranian Refugees

The Labour Campaign for Free Movements

Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary

 Federation of Iraqi Refugees

Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation

Kurdish And Middle Eastern Women’s Organisation