Month: June 2012

Getting ready for war in the “rainbow nation”

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No time to do this story justice today, but I have written on many occasions about the myth of the “Rainbow Nation”—South Africa (please use our search function and type in ‘rainbow nation’ for the many stories).  I wonder will we in the civilized West be giving refugee status to whites escaping persecution by elements of the South African government (the ANC Youth League)—hmmm?

Here is the dreadful story from News 24 in Johannesburg:

Johannesburg – The son of a murdered farmer has challenged ANC Youth League statements that land should be taken without compensation, according to a report on Friday.

Hanno van Rensburg, son of the murdered farmer, Johan van Rensburg, 77, blamed the ANC Youth League for the crime in which his mother Gloudien, 65, was also critically wounded, reported Beeld newspaper.

“The ANC Youth League say they want to take our land by violent means and declare war. If they want war, they must come. I’ll fucking shoot them. My family’s blood has been spilt on this land.”

Ronald Lamola, deputy president of the ANC Youth League, called on Tuesday night at the Durban University of Technology for the expropriation of land without compensation.

“We need an act as forceful as war to bring it back to the Africans,” Lomola said.

Henry Geldenhuys, deputy president of the Transvaal Agricultural Union, said Lamola was inciting violence.

“There’s no option left for the farmers but to prepare for a war.“

American tourists were witnesses to the murder, here.

Canada cracking down on refugee criminals

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Note from the editor:  I’ve been sidetracked lately with local issues with little time to post here, so if you are one of the many new readers arriving at RRW this week, I urge you to use our search function to help you find something of interest among our thousands of posts.  You can type in your state, or city, or the ethnic group of refugee you are concerned about among many other topics and begin to learn about the refugee mess going on around the world.  Also note our categories in the lefthand side bar.  We have a category with 93 previous posts on Canada.

Whew! They are getting serious in Canada—it’s deportation for you if you break the law and no appeals allowed.  Well, assuming they get this proposed legislation enacted.

From the Vancouver Sun:

MONTREAL — Immigration Minister Jason Kenney introduced legislation in the House of Commons Wednesday that would tighten conditions for foreigners entering Canada and aimed mainly at “foreign criminals.”

The measure calls for the automatic expulsion of political refugees and both permanent and temporary residents who commit a crime and are sentenced to more than six months prison.

The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper “is putting a stop to foreign criminals relying on endless appeals in order to delay their removal from Canada during which time they continue to terrorize innocent Canadians,” Kenney told reporters.

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The proposed change “means that there will be no review of all of the circumstances and how the deportation order might affect children or spouses, family, etc,” immigration attorney Lorne Waldman told CBC News in an e-mail message. “It means deportation regardless of how long the person is in Canada.”

Arab Spring causes jump in refugee numbers, highest in 11 years

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On the eve of World Refugee Day (one of those PR gimmicks they started about 10 years ago) we learned that surprise! surprise! the Arab Spring is responsible for a dramatic increase in refugees worldwide.  Are you surprised?

From Reuters:

LONDON (AlertNet) – Post-election violence in Ivory Coast and the Arab Spring revolutions helped create 800,000 new refugees last year – the highest number in over a decade, according to the U.N. refugee agency’s annual report on global trends.

“2011 saw suffering on an epic scale. For so many lives to have been thrown into turmoil over so short a space of time means enormous personal cost for all who were affected,” said Antonio Guterres, head of the UNHCR agency.

In all, 4.3 million people were newly displaced last year due to conflict or persecution, according to the Global Trends 2011 report. Most were uprooted within their own countries.

Conflict in Ivory Coast, Libya, Somalia and Sudan were among crises that prompted large numbers to flee their homes.

Worldwide, 42.5 million people ended 2011 either as refugees (15.2 million), internally displaced within their country (26.4 million) or in the process of seeking asylum (895,000).

How’s that “responsibility to protect” rule for making war working for Samantha and the kids at the White House?

UN and US State Department pressure Bangladesh to take in more Rohingya Muslims

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…and Bangladesh, a Muslim country, says NO!  Will we be next?

Here is more on the on-going battle for Burma (aka Myanmar) between the Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslims, from the Myanmar Times:

DHAKA – Bangladesh refused last week to open its border to Rohingya Muslims fleeing communal violence in Myanmar despite pressure from the United States and rights groups.

The impoverished South Asian country, already home to a Rohingya refugee population estimated at 300,000, turned away more migrants on June 14 and has sealed its 200-kilometre (125-mile) border with Myanmar.

At least 17 boats carrying nearly 700 Rohingya have been turned back on the Naf river that separates the countries since June 11 in the wake of violence between Rakhine and Rohingya – known in Myanmar as “Bengali Muslims” – that killed dozens in northern Rakhine State.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told parliament on June 14 that Dhaka was not “obligated” to host refugees from Myanmar, saying Bangladesh had not signed any international conventions, laws or norms on refugees.

“Some international organisations, some international NGOs and some friendly nations have requested us so that we open our border to allow their [Rohingya refugees] unrestricted entry into our country,” she said.

“I want to tell them it will not be proper to make this type of request to us.”

The United States on June 13 urged Bangladesh to allow in the Rohingya, described by the United Nations as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

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The UN Refugee Agency and New York-based Human Rights Watch have also called on Dhaka to open its border.

Why should we care about this?

I’ve been writing about Rohingya since 2008 and warning that the US State Department and its refugee contractors are building a case for us to take more and more Rohingya “refugees.”  The Rohingya are strict Islamists whose women are fully covered.  For those unfamiliar with Rohingya we have 108 posts in our Rohingya Reports category, here.

Hundreds of readers have visited this post from 2009 where we learned the US State Department had linked the Rohingya with a terrorist group, but now the State Department link to the report has been removed.

The drumbeat is growing to bring them to the US.

There is no sense trying to tell the US State Department anything, if you want to vent about not taking Rohingya refugees into your cities and towns, contact your elected officials in Washington—your Congressman and your US Senators.

VDARE writer details Refugee program propaganda; questions former program head David Robinson’s doublespeak

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Here is an article from VDARE’s venerable Thomas Allen who has been writing about problems with the US State Department’s Refugee Resettlement Program for more than ten years now.   See his list of investigative reports at VDARE, here, beginning in the year 2000, for a catalog of the program’s ills.

In his latest article, Allen maintains that the Refugee program is on the ropes and that the Press event in New York City in April gives the discerning reader a hint of the problems they are facing.  LOL! The reporters at events like this one are far from discerning!

Allen then goes on to discuss then Acting Assistant Secretary of State David Robinson’s own doublespeak.  Longtime readers may remember that in 2000 Robinson wrote an incredible document for the National War College in which he admits that the program is politicized and controlled by refugee contractors looking for government largesse.

Here is Allen:

….the Refugee Industry is still in the saddle—owing to the general uselessness of Congress; and to the Main Stream Media’s systematic failure to report the issue.

But the Refugee Industry is clearly having an increasingly hard time.

Of course, it can count on the support of the interest groups profiting from the refugee trade—both the government-addicted “charity” refugee contractors like the Episcopalian Migration Ministries,, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service  and Catholic Charities. (And also the cheap-labor addicted Slave Power.) But there is clearly concern in government circles that the refugee business is not faring as well among those who are forced to pay for it.

Read it all.

By the way, Robinson was only acting Assistant Secretary for Population Refugees and Migration when he presided over the New York City press event.  The new Asst. Sec. for PRM is Anne Richard who revolved in the door from her previous job with one of the refugee contractors—the same one doing this press ‘dog and pony show’ event in April with Robinson—the International Rescue Committee.  And, it gets more interesting, Robinson roundly criticized the IRC in that war college report more than a decade ago.

I wonder does Robinson sleep at night?