Somali asylum seekers living in Swaziland who complained
that they were being starved and forced to work in fields without
pay are to be deported from the kingdom.
Swazi Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Chief
Mgwagwa Gamedze had said in March 2015, the refugees were lucky not to be
deported.
Seven refugees reportedly left the Malindza reception centre they were
housed in and set up camp close to one of King Mswati’s 13 palaces at Ludzidzini.
Now, a Court in Mbabane has given the refugees 14
days to leave the kingdom and return to Somalia. The court heard that the men
entered Swaziland illegally, failed to obey orders of the Ministry of Home
Affairs to live at Malindza and used open land as a toilet.
In
January 2015 Mowlid Omer Warsame, one of the refugees, was reported in the Swazi Observer newspaper saying the
living conditions in Swaziland were so unbearable ‘they found it better to go
and die in the warfront in their home country than in a foreign land’.
See also
SWAZI
GOVT SNUBS STARVED REFUGEES
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2015/03/swazi-govt-snubs-starved-refugees.html
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