Rwanda: The UK Again Attempts to Bend Truth On Rwanda

this week, Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell sang the praises of Rwanda 's"remarkable regime." But as the debate over the government's Safety of Rwanda bill came to a close, he left out some important facts about Rwanda 's human rights record.during a 2018 protest over cuts in food rations in the Kiziba refugee camp, Mitchell claimed the incident was"highly contested.

The government may have legislated its way around the Supreme Court's ruling that Rwanda is not a safe country to which to send asylum seekers, but it cannot bend the truth to its will -). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material,, representing a diversity of positions on every topic.

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