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ROSEJANE AND DAUGHTER MUST STAY CAMPAIGN!
Rosejane Wanjohi is a teacher of mentally-disabled children from Kenya and a mother of one-year-old Natale. She fled to Britain in December 2006 and sought asylum, after her late husband tried to force her to join an outlawed Kenyan militia, the Mungiki. She would also have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). Whilst over here a widely reported conflict broke out in Kenya in the wake of the December 2007 elections. Over 1,500 people were killed and 350,000 forced to flee their homes in tribal conflict orchestrated by the Kenyan state. 0.5m internally displaced people are living in squalor and misery in refugee camps in Kenya. In addition, the Mungiki is a militia backed by the Kenyan state and used usually during elections to justify state repression.
Yet the racist British Labour government has refused either to extend her visa or to grant them refuge, and is trying to deport the family. If she is deported to Kenya, she and her daughter would very likely be forced to go through FGM and persecution. Kenyan people like Rosejane Wanjohi and Natale have suffered humiliating poverty while 70% of their national wealth is in the hands of foreign corporations especially British companies such as Brooke Bond and Unilever (Kenyan Sunday Standard, 17 April 2005). Their British-backed corrupt leaders such as Kibaki have spent $12m on luxury cars between January 2003 and September 2004, while thousands die of AIDS and other diseases. Vast tracts of fertile land is not used to grow food for domestic consumption but to grow flowers, tea and coffee for export to the EU and British supermarkets, while millions of Kenyans starve. British companies benefit directly from the poverty of Kenyan people which exploded into the violence seen in JanuaryFebruary 2008.
In October 2006, Labour deported a 7-year-old girl on her own, to Kenya despite her mum living in Glasgow. The Home Office regularly dismisses applications to stay in Britain from migrants and then looks for reasons to justify the refusal, and has deported thousands to face misery, poverty, persecution and even death. Approximately 30,000 immigrants and asylum seekers are locked up in detention centres and prisons in Britain every year, including over 2000 children and babies. About 1200 are deported from Britain every week; 63,000 in 2007 - all are from nations underdeveloped, oppressed and exploited by British imperialism. This injustice and deportations must stop! The asylum and immigration laws on which these decisions are based are racist to the core. Deporting Rosejane and Natale is an attack on all migrants.
Defend Rosejane and Natale! Stop all deportations! Write letters of protest to the Home Office (ref no W1119087) at: Minister for Immigration, 3rd Floor, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.
Defend all migrants and asylum seekers! No deportation to Kenya! No to British state racism!
Campaign supported by WAST, FRFI and the North West Anti-Racist Group (NWARG) [email protected]
Rosejane Wanjohi is a teacher of mentally-disabled children from Kenya and a mother of one-year-old Natale. She fled to Britain in December 2006 and sought asylum, after her late husband tried to force her to join an outlawed Kenyan militia, the Mungiki. She would also have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). Whilst over here a widely reported conflict broke out in Kenya in the wake of the December 2007 elections. Over 1,500 people were killed and 350,000 forced to flee their homes in tribal conflict orchestrated by the Kenyan state. 0.5m internally displaced people are living in squalor and misery in refugee camps in Kenya. In addition, the Mungiki is a militia backed by the Kenyan state and used usually during elections to justify state repression.
Yet the racist British Labour government has refused either to extend her visa or to grant them refuge, and is trying to deport the family. If she is deported to Kenya, she and her daughter would very likely be forced to go through FGM and persecution. Kenyan people like Rosejane Wanjohi and Natale have suffered humiliating poverty while 70% of their national wealth is in the hands of foreign corporations especially British companies such as Brooke Bond and Unilever (Kenyan Sunday Standard, 17 April 2005). Their British-backed corrupt leaders such as Kibaki have spent $12m on luxury cars between January 2003 and September 2004, while thousands die of AIDS and other diseases. Vast tracts of fertile land is not used to grow food for domestic consumption but to grow flowers, tea and coffee for export to the EU and British supermarkets, while millions of Kenyans starve. British companies benefit directly from the poverty of Kenyan people which exploded into the violence seen in JanuaryFebruary 2008.
In October 2006, Labour deported a 7-year-old girl on her own, to Kenya despite her mum living in Glasgow. The Home Office regularly dismisses applications to stay in Britain from migrants and then looks for reasons to justify the refusal, and has deported thousands to face misery, poverty, persecution and even death. Approximately 30,000 immigrants and asylum seekers are locked up in detention centres and prisons in Britain every year, including over 2000 children and babies. About 1200 are deported from Britain every week; 63,000 in 2007 - all are from nations underdeveloped, oppressed and exploited by British imperialism. This injustice and deportations must stop! The asylum and immigration laws on which these decisions are based are racist to the core. Deporting Rosejane and Natale is an attack on all migrants.
Defend Rosejane and Natale! Stop all deportations! Write letters of protest to the Home Office (ref no W1119087) at: Minister for Immigration, 3rd Floor, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.
Defend all migrants and asylum seekers! No deportation to Kenya! No to British state racism!
Campaign supported by WAST, FRFI and the North West Anti-Racist Group (NWARG) [email protected]
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