'Rishi Sunak’s family were migrants. I am surprised that he is leaving behind such shameful history during his tenure'
‘Rishi Sunak’s family were migrants. I am surprised that he is leaving behind such shameful history during his tenure’I came through Italy before I came to England, after a long journey through the Libyan desert and the danger of the Mediterranean Sea. I lived in Italy for a year and three months. I escaped from my dictator government in Eritrea , but I slept on the streets under a bridge in Milan with no job or chances of education.
The UK has decided to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. We already fled abusive militaries and corrupt governments in Africa. We want to seek asylum in the UK, but now they are paying the Rwandan government. The world does not know that for us, Rwanda equals death. We are in a bad situation now in the UK. I am afraid with this situation. The UK’s MPs are treating us badly for politics. Why is the UK government playing with poor asylum seekers and migrants to suit their own politics? For me, instead of going to Rwanda, my solution would be to kill myself here. All are the same. Die here, die also in Rwanda, die equally. You don’t know the type of life we passed in the Libyan desert and in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a film for you.
People will inevitably call us illegal because we don’t have legal passports. Refugees get passports after a country accepts your right to asylum following the interview process. In Eritrea, I could never get a passport from the government. Only those aged 50 and older were able to get them. From 18 to 50 the government collects us and sends us to unending military service.
Under God, I expect human rights activists and charities, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the people of England, to stand by us and stand against this government decision.
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