Watch: Chinamasa speaks on Zimbabwean deportations from Britain
Watch: Chinamasa speaks on Zimbabwean deportations from Britain
Patrick Chinamasa
The arrival in Harare of a batch of 14 Zimbabweans deported from Britain is in many ways a welcome sign that the British government has developed a far more realistic attitude to Zimbabwe and reckons that returning citizens are not going to be mistreated.
While their deportation and return hardly raised a whisper in Zimbabwe, there was a flurry of activity in Britain with a major press campaign and public appeals from people claiming that the Zimbabweans should be allowed to stay as refugees since they had “fled tyranny” at home and would be mistreated on arrival.