Thursday, September 29, 2005
Vucaj Family From Glasgow Deported.
The Kosovar Vucaj family who lived in Glasgow for five years before being dragged from their beds by Home Office officials in a dawn raid and removed to Yarlswood Detention Centre in England, were again taken from their beds at 4am this morning and DEPORTED with little more than the clothes they stood up in.
Members of Positive Action in Housing said they were heartbroken for them.
So am I.
And filled with revulsion at this "New Labour" government North and South of the border.
Robina Qureshi, Director of PAIH, said:
"At 4.21 am this morning, I was woken in the night,13 year old Saida Vucaj phoned me weeping and exhausted. She said they woke her and her family and told them to get dressed because they are taking her and her family back to ‘our country’ - and then the line went dead. I called back but the very friendly switchboard person told me he could not put me through until after seven am. ‘But they will be gone by then, please put me through’ I said. Sorry, he said, no can do. Phone after seven pm. Now I’m the one who is upset. Worse than that I’m a fool because I believed that someone somewhere in a position of power would be able to help this family who have been Glasgow residents for five years, law abiding and honest. I was fool enough to think that children and photographs and lobbying and a visit to the first minister only seven days ago might change hearts, might win some form of reprieve. Instead, the family are being woken at dawn – yet again, so nothing’s changed there - and being ‘sent back’ to Kosovo or Albania taking with them the clothes on their back and their Glasgow accents. I am disgusted by this calculated, unremitting barbarity known as the UK asylum & immigration policy. I feel ashamed of this country, that shame knows no depths, this calculated, unremitting barbarism that has broken that little girl’s heart will haunt this country for generations to come. I cannot express enough how disgusted and heartbroken I am for Saida Vucaj and her family, and all the other families waiting years and years and then suddenly picked up Nazi style to be deported. Disgusted."
Members of Positive Action in Housing said they were heartbroken for them.
So am I.
And filled with revulsion at this "New Labour" government North and South of the border.
Robina Qureshi, Director of PAIH, said:
"At 4.21 am this morning, I was woken in the night,13 year old Saida Vucaj phoned me weeping and exhausted. She said they woke her and her family and told them to get dressed because they are taking her and her family back to ‘our country’ - and then the line went dead. I called back but the very friendly switchboard person told me he could not put me through until after seven am. ‘But they will be gone by then, please put me through’ I said. Sorry, he said, no can do. Phone after seven pm. Now I’m the one who is upset. Worse than that I’m a fool because I believed that someone somewhere in a position of power would be able to help this family who have been Glasgow residents for five years, law abiding and honest. I was fool enough to think that children and photographs and lobbying and a visit to the first minister only seven days ago might change hearts, might win some form of reprieve. Instead, the family are being woken at dawn – yet again, so nothing’s changed there - and being ‘sent back’ to Kosovo or Albania taking with them the clothes on their back and their Glasgow accents. I am disgusted by this calculated, unremitting barbarity known as the UK asylum & immigration policy. I feel ashamed of this country, that shame knows no depths, this calculated, unremitting barbarism that has broken that little girl’s heart will haunt this country for generations to come. I cannot express enough how disgusted and heartbroken I am for Saida Vucaj and her family, and all the other families waiting years and years and then suddenly picked up Nazi style to be deported. Disgusted."
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Nice idea Sarkasmo, but even Fair Isle isn't remote enough to avoid Tony Blairs New Nazi Government.
This is so sad. :( Is heartlessness an epidemic now in the world? Do we now accept it as a way of life and consider compassion and rationality to be outmoded? This is as bad as the US government returning Cuban rafters who didn't make it ashore.
Hi Elizabeth.
It seems that way. I'm sickened with the whole thing and just about everything else that's happening just now, on your side of the world and mine.
Gettin' old!
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It seems that way. I'm sickened with the whole thing and just about everything else that's happening just now, on your side of the world and mine.
Gettin' old!
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