{"id":122021,"date":"2023-12-09T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=122021"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:59:50","slug":"lee-anderson-demands-answers-over-un-migrant-question-as-hypocrisy-laid-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/lee-anderson-demands-answers-over-un-migrant-question-as-hypocrisy-laid-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Anderson demands answers over UN migrant question as hypocrisy laid bare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conservative Party deputy chair Lee Anderson is demanding answers as it emerged that the UN is sending Afghan schoolgirls to Rwanda, after it said it was unsafe for the UK to send Channel migrants to the east African country.<\/p>\n

Female pupils from the School of Leadership Afghanistan have been relocated to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, after the Taliban ruled that only boys could receive secondary education. Prior to escaping to Rwanda, the school\u2019s teachers torched the school and with it destroyed any documents that would point to the identities of the escaped pupils.<\/p>\n

As a result, the parents of the children that were hurried to east Africa are not in as much danger of meeting the brutality of the Taliban. The MailOnline reports the president of the Afghan school Shabana Basij-Rasikh as saying: \u201cOn the night we arrived in Kigali, we were met by a group of Rwandan trauma counsellors who invited us to belong [in their country].\u201d<\/p>\n

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The girls are still in Rwanda and are being educated there, thanks to assistance from the UN. However, Mr Anderson\u2019s urgent query comes after the same body slammed the British Government for attempting to send illegal migrants to the very same country, on the premise that it was unsafe.<\/p>\n

The British Supreme Court ruled that Rishi Sunak\u2019s plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful and during its deliberations it gave \u201cgreatest weight\u201d to submissions by the United Nations\u2019 Refugee Agency (UNHCR).<\/p>\n

The UNHCR is mentioned 64 times in the Supreme Court\u2019s 56-page document. It said that migrants sent to Rwanda could be mistreated and sent back to their home countries by the east African state.<\/p>\n

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It added that Rwanda\u2019s record on human rights was poor and that it had a defective asylum process, evidenced by the fact that it had rejected a \u201csuspiciously high\u201d 100 per cent of applications from Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Besides the Afghan schoolgirls, the UNHCR has facilitated flights of more than 2000 sub saharan Africans to Rwanda. Mr Anderson, responding to the news that the UNHCR had relocated both Afghan schoolchildren and sub saharan migrants to Rwanda, said it was a \u201cfair point\u201d to raise questions around the UN\u2019s double standards.<\/p>\n

He quipped \u201canswers on a postcard\u201d when sharing article on X, demanding an urgent response to why Afghan schoolgirls were being sent to Rwanda when it was deemed “too risky” for migrants from the UK.<\/p>\n

Express.co.uk has contacted the United Nations for comment.<\/p>\n