Samuel Owusu-Yeboah 0

CANCELLATION OF THE BOND FOR INDIAN, PAKISTANI, NIGERIAN, GHANAIAN, SRI LANKAN AND BANGLADESHI TOURISTS SEEKING TO VISIT THE UNITED KINGDOM

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We seek to express our disgust for the discriminatory law being instituted by the UK government against tourists who seek to visit the UK from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. One of the fundamental elements of the United Nations's Charter is that no race or group of people must be singled out for discriminatory treatment anywhere in the world. Since the UK positions itself as a leading country in upholding this charter, we will like to protest and ask for the cancellation of the law that is meant to demand a £3,000 bond from people from these countries for the following reasons: 1. This law presents a message of blatant disrespect, overt racism and obvious resentment that the UK has for the good people of these six nations. And to anyone in these six countries who has a reasonable grounds to migrate to the UK, this law is tantamount to the old laws in countries in the Americas where enslaved Africans were required to pay an amount of money to "purchase" their freedom. 2. Judging over 1.5 billion people from nations which used to be part of the British Commonwealth as "high risk" is not appropriate. It involves judging them on the basis of what other citizens of the nation have done and this is illegal and inconsistent with UK and the laws of all civilized nations. People must be judged in personam and on the basis of what risk they pose to the UK. Identifying these nations as "high risk" is simplistic and disdainful. 3. History does not give the UK the moral right to do this. In the past 500 years, few people have migrated around the world and caused more atrocities than persons of British origins. The British people have lived in lands around the world which they have claimed from people at high costs of human lives and discrimination. Mention can be made of the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and many more. Britain has caused some of the worst atrocities in foreign lands that they had absolutely no connections to. Britain has a history of looting the coffers of nations, including these six countries, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh through systems and taxes that were adjudged by the United Nations as illegal. Britain has gone as far as to enslave people from lands including Ghana and Nigeria and used them solely to make wealth for the development of the UK. People from these countries died in wars that favoured no other than the British. Mention can be made of the 1st and 2nd World Wars in which more Indians died than the population of the entire British Isles. With this terrible history, Britain has absolutely NO MORAL RIGHT to restrict entry to the UK to citizens of these countries. They have no right or whatsoever to call citizens of these countries "high risk" people. Nobody called the British people high risk migrants when they were moving around these countries and enriching themselves at the expense of the ancestors of these people. 4. The UK's immigration laws are overtly racist and discriminatory. The UK makes its immigration laws deliberately to keep out people from certain nations around the world. However, people must be given the chance to choose where to live and where to build their lives. Just as people with British origins settled in far-away continents around the world and build lives, people from nations around the world must also be given a chance to migrate and settle where they want to settle. And if people are kept out by racist immigration laws, they must not be denied the right to enter the UK on other visas and explore their opportunities. After all, a wide majority of people who call themselves British citizens today with migrant backgrounds did not enter the UK through the definite migration rules that existed at the time they entered the UK. 5. In line with the issues raised in 1 - 4 above, we demand that the governments of India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh use ALL means possible to speak up against this discriminatory law which seeks to present their citizens as inferior and sub-human beings. In this vein, we demand that the governments of the affected countries should use all diplomatic tools available to them. If this fails, they should come together and jointly impose a tax increment on British businesses that exist within the jurisdiction of these affected countries. And they should lobby through their regional bodies to seek that the scope of these restrictions on British businesses are imposed by other countries in the continents that these countries are situated.

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