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Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim
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- Title
- Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: 'The plants were more valuable than my life'
- Authors
- Annie Kelly
- Published
- Jul 26 2019
- Word count
- 4971 words
there are a lot of things that are pretty fucked up with this story, but by far the most fucked up aspect has to be how one little government fuck up which could have been easily rectified if it'd be handled appropriately (and was itself the result of a failure of oversight) instead led to minh being repeatedly victimized and traumatized because it wasn't, and then was made worse because the police and government proceeded to actively obstruct and stonewall efforts to do anything about that in an attempt to damage control their fuck up. literally none of that needed to happen.
We have Theresa May's time as Home Secretary to thank for that. Her "hostile environment" policies, of which she's very proud, are designed to capitalise on any opportunity to deny assistance and guidance on any grounds, no matter how flimsy, absurd or cruel.
We have Chagossians being told to "go home" despite them being British citizens and having no home to return to
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/windrush-scandal-continues-in-crawley-as-chagos-islanders-told-go-back