LONDON, England -- UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Prime Minister Tony Blair have refused to back down and grant a general moratorium on returning failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe.
In a statement to MPs, Clarke said nobody who the government genuinely believed would face persecution would be sent back to President Robert Mugabe's regime.
He confirmed in the Commons that there were 57 asylum seekers claiming to be from Zimbabwe on hunger strike in detention centers.
But he said there were not "sufficient grounds" to return to a situation where nobody was returned to Zimbabwe, regardless of their status.
A blanket ban could only encourage "those seeking to get round controls," he said.
this was a good call and a fair call. keeping people out of genocide, and that is what Mugabe is doing, but trying to keep their borders from being abused.
Something Canada and the US could learn from
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