A demonstrator holds a flare in Windrush Square during the annual Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations march in London, on Aug 1, 2021. LONDON: Black people whose right to live in the UK was illegally challenged by the government marked the anniversary on Sunday of the act that freed slaves throughout the British Empire, drawing a direct link between slavery and the discrimination they suffered.
After the gathering, some activists travelled to Buckingham Palace, hoping to deliver a written appeal asking Queen Elizabeth II to back their call for a “Windrush Act″ to pay reparations to those hurt by the scandal. They were turned away by palace guards, who told them to send their request through the mail.
The Windrush scandal has rocked Britain since 2018, when many of these long-term legal residents were caught up in a crackdown on illegal immigration. Thousands lost their jobs, homes and the right to free medical care, many because they arrived as children and couldn’t produce paperwork proving their right to live in the UK Some were detained, and an unknown number were deported to countries they barely remembered.
The agency has paid almost £27 million in compensation, up from less than £3 million at the time the overhaul was announced in December, it said. Another £7.1 million has been offered to victims.
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