Letter from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre
Colnbrook detainees
Detainees in Colnbrook IRC have published a letter to News of the World
reporter Mazher Mahmood.
Dear Mr. Mahmood,
We, the detainees of Colnbrook
Detention Centre think that you are a gutless, incompetent, bully, and
together with your editors and newspapers pick on foreigners because they are
a soft target. You do not represent the real views of the common UK nationals,
but rather, you have been misleading the general public with your unfair,
ill-informed news partial news for years. You have influenced the way this
government perceives it should deal with refugees and asylum, by presenting it
as incompetent, to make it adopt inhuman policies against people who have fled
their countries of origin for one reason or another. This has led to refugees
not seeking asylum with the authorities, for fear of being detained and
removed to countries where their lives would be in danger. This has in turn
pushed those refugees to provide for their survival by being exploited to work
long hours for very low pay (such as the ones you helped catch), for those
very fears.
From your name, I can tell that you are a descendant of immigrants. In your
quest to further your career, to please your bosses, to embarrass the
government, and for whatever other selfish motives you may have in taking
advantage of foreigners in the UK, we wonder how you sleep at night. You
should reconsider your position by educating yourself on refugees, asylum
seekers and immigrant' issues before you unfairly target them. You should go
back to your roots and stop thinking that you are better than any other
foreigners just because you hold British citizenship.
Well done for doing none of your business, and encouraging vigilantism. You
would be very much at home with BNP and Migrant Watch, Mr. Mazher Mahmood
(News of the World) for your Nazi-like work of spreading hate and kidnapping
people to detention centres ( UK concentration camps). Print this in your hate
paper if you have the spine!
We recommend you enlighten your ignorant self by reading the UNHCR's 'Victims
of Intolerance'.
Yours sincerely,
Colnbrook Detainees
Message of support/solidarity can be sent to: colnbrook.detainees@googlemail.com
Demonstrate outside the 'News
of the World'/Sunday - 11th June
https://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine71/newsdemo.html
June 2006
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