Women occupy 61 per cent of the seats in National Assembly. Its economy has grown by 7 per cent annually for the past two decades, during which child mortality has dropped by two-thirds. Rwanda’s president since 2004, Paul Kagame, seeks to make his country the “Singapore of Africa”. I have known it intimately since my days as The Sunday Times’ chief foreign correspondent in the 1960s. SIR – Rwanda – a Commonwealth member since 2009 – is an exemplar for post-colonial sub-Saharan countries in Africa. Rev Canon Robin Morrison Laleham, Middlesex Proof of genuine need is sometimes difficult and time-consuming, but for those fleeing harm, the moral and legal case for safety and security is overwhelming.
There are legal (and cheaper) routes for individuals claiming asylum.
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Journalists have found them and refugees know how to contact them, so why can’t the police, or those with the power to arrest on the spot, find them? SIR – If the Rwanda scheme is morally repugnant and legally questionable as a deterrent, why not do more than deter? Why not take direct action against people smugglers? However, the surrounding outrage might provide a useful distraction for Boris Johnson from his current woes.Ĭhristopher Learmont-Hughes Caldy, Wirral This profligate and illogical policy is highly unlikely to achieve its deterrent objective. SIR – What was the point in planning to send a handful of asylum seekers to Rwanda on a Boeing 767 with capacity for more than 200 passengers? If asylum, rather than economic gain, is the purpose of their journey, why not claim it in France, Greece, Italy or Spain: countries which many migrants have passed through on their way? When are these hand-wringing bishops going to get it? The migrants landing in boats on our overcrowded shores have already found safe haven in the EU before electing to try their luck in a dinghy to Britain. SIR – The Church of England deems the Rwanda deportation scheme an “immoral policy that shames Britain”.
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