Rwanda, A Safe Country For Desperate Refugees?

[sandyRoe]

Listening to Woman's Hour this morning a woman who has spent 10 years in prison in Rwanda for crimes including genocide denial was given a platform to spout her anti-government views.
Have things not come to a pretty pass when people can sprout views that might inhibit our plans to send asylum seekers there?

[naomi24]

I think this is in the wrong category and would be better placed elsewhere, but since I can't move it, who are these 'desperate refugees'?

[sandyRoe]

Young men who for the most share our language and aspire to settle here, then bring their families, to live in liberty.
PS, where should this post be?

[Khandro]

The point is sandy, everyone knows that Rwanda has had a shocking past, but it has been completely transformed by a new administration into a outward-looking country with a growing economy.

I didn't hear this poor lady's account, but it would have been about her experiences in the country's dark past.

[vulcan42]

Sharing a language and an aspiration to live here doesn't make them desperate refugees.

[naomi24]

They were living in liberty. The last time I looked France was a safe country.

Politics, Society & Culture? Somewhere more serious.

[gulliver1]

Why do you want this post kicking into the long grass then Naomi ???

[naomi24]

Gulliver, you're confused. Try reading the posts.

[Old_Geezer]

She was jailed for denying there had been genocide ? Sounds as if the authorities are accepting it has occurred. All very confusing.