Sent back by Britain. Executed in Darfur

[IndianaGreen]

Source: The Independent (UK)

Sent back by Britain. Executed in Darfur

Failed asylum-seeker followed home from airport and shot by Sudan security officials

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

A failed asylum-seeker who returned to Darfur under a government repatriation scheme has been murdered by Sudanese security officers after they followed him home from the airport in Khartoum, The Independent has learnt.

Adam Osman Mohammed, 32, was gunned down in his home in front of his wife and four-year-old son just days after arriving in his village in south Darfur.

The case is to be used by asylum campaigners to counter Home Office attempts to lift the ban on the removal and deportation to Sudan of failed asylum-seekers. Next month, government lawyers are expected to go to court to argue that it is safe to return as many as 3,000 people to Khartoum.

But lawyers for the campaigners will tell the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that people who are returned to Sudan face imprisonment, torture and death. Mr Mohammed, a non-Arab Darfuri, came to Britain in 2005 seeking sanctuary from persecution in Sudan, where he said his life was in danger. The village where he was a farmer had been raided twice by the Janjaweed, the ethnic Arab militia, forcing him and his wife and child to flee their home.

His family in Britain told The Independent that Mr Mohammed witnessed many villagers being killed and became separated from his wife during a second attack on the village a few weeks later. He escaped to Chad before making his way to the UK in 2005.

But last year his appeal for asylum was finally turned down and he was told that he faced deportation. In August last year he was flown to Khartoum under the Home Office's assisted voluntary return programme, in which refugees are paid to go back to their country of origin. He stayed in Khartoum for a few months and then, when he believed it was safe, he travelled to Darfur to be reunited with his family.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sent-back-by-britain-executed-in-darfur-1646507.html

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[Kaleko]

1. Too horrible to contemplate.

What to do? I just want to shoot myself right now.

[Lost in CT]

2. I really don't understand this.... nt

[nyy1998]

3. omg

:(

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Fuck it, my government has some of the most brutal people in the world in the Home Office

They send people back to hellholes, and act as if it's just coincidence that they then get murdered.

In 2001, they were sending people back to Iraq, saying

"Iraq, and in particular the Iraqi security
forces, would only convict and sentence a person in the courts with the
provision of proper jurisdiction ... you could expect to receive a fair
trial under an independent and properly constituted judiciary."
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg02216.html

And within 2 years they'd invaded the place, saying Saddam was a threat to his people and the world, although nothing had changed.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Sadly, you are quite right.

They will make any excuse to deny the claims of asylum-seekers and send them back to be murdered/tortured/die in crossfire.

The RW tabloids' manipulation of public opinion makes it all possible. Though even the Daily Hate-Mail protested when the government sent asylum-seekers back to Zimbabwe.

[Dorian Gray]

5. How tragic.

Awful. :(