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Refugees sent to Rwanda from remote UK island speak to BBC-by Alice Cuddy and Swaminathan Natarajan<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Azhagu and Mayur arrived in Rwanda from British territory Diego Garcia<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>BBC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A group of migrants was transferred to Rwanda from a remote UK territory by the British government over a year ago. They say they feel isolated and unsafe – with one describing the African country as an \u201copen prison\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

With political parties divided over the government\u2019s controversial plan to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, the BBC has travelled to the African state to speak to four of the migrants already there – albeit under a separate agreement – about their experience in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The small group arrived from Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. They say their complex medical needs, in some cases as the result of past rape and torture, are not being met in Rwanda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of them receives the equivalent of $50 (\u00a339) a week for food and other essentials, but under the terms of their stay – agreed by the UK and Rwandan governments – they are not permitted to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

All four say they have faced harassment and unwanted sexual advances on the street. They say they are, in effect, \u201cself-imprisoned\u201d – too scared to go out – while they wait for the UK to find somewhere permanent for them to live.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group – all Sri Lankan Tamils – were transferred to Rwanda for urgent medical care after suicide attempts. They are now out of military hospital and living in two flats on the outskirts of the capital, Kigali, paid for by British authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe UK is paying for the migrants to stay on the edge of Kigali<\/span><\/p>\n

Their legal status in Rwanda is not the same as it would be for asylum seekers flown there from the UK – but a lawyer representing two of the four says their \u201cnegative experiences do raise serious concerns\u201d about Rwanda\u2019s ability to offer a safe haven for \u201cvery vulnerable refugees\u201d.<\/span>
\nA senior Rwandan official told the BBC she had \u201ccomplete faith\u201d in her country\u2019s medical system and the migrants\u2019 concerns about personal safety were not shared by others. \u201cWe have a thriving foreign population here,\u201d she added.<\/span>
\nTo protect their identities, migrants\u2019 names have been changed<\/span><\/p>\n

None of the four tried to enter the UK – instead they filed asylum claims on Diego Garcia, which is used as a secretive UK-US military base.<\/span>
\nThey were among dozens of people to arrive on the island in October 2021 – previously reported by the BBC. They said they had been fleeing persecution and trying to sail to Canada to claim asylum.<\/span>
\nThe four we met in Rwanda said they had been victims of torture and sexual violence in their home countries – some because of past links with the Tamil Tiger rebels, who were defeated in Sri Lanka\u2019s civil war 15 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPacked on their boat in 2021, the Tamils intended to sail to Canada<\/span><\/p>\n

Down a quiet road, in a two-bedroom apartment, Azhagu says he has been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, and uncertainty about his future and the isolation are making things worse.<\/span>
\n\u201cWe are not getting proper medical treatment. We have mental health issues,\u201d says the 23-year-old. \u201cWhenever we go and tell the doctors about our problems they can’t help us.\u201d<\/span>
\nRwandan medical staff have shouted at him, he alleges, and on one occasion after self-harming, he says he was threatened with arrest and told to return to Diego Garcia.<\/span>
\nMayur, 26, who shares the apartment, says he has given up on counselling. He says he doesn’t get proper medicine and doesn\u2019t get to have \u201ca good conversation\u201d. \u201cThat\u2019s why I don\u2019t want to go to the hospital,\u201d he adds.<\/span>
\nLawyer Tom Short, from UK firm Leigh Day, says an independent expert assessment found \u201ceach of our clients has complex medical needs which are not being met in Rwanda\u201d.<\/span>
\nWe approached the military hospital where all the Tamils have been receiving treatment, but we were referred to the Rwandan government.<\/span>
\nThe top Rwandan official in charge of the deal to transfer asylum seekers from the UK, Doris Uwicyeza Picard, defended her country\u2019s medical system – adding the migrants were being treated \u201cto the best of our ability\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The migrants\u2019 safety concerns are not shared by anyone else, says official Doris Uwicyeza Picard<\/span><\/p>\n

Three of the migrants – the two young men and a woman, Lakshani – have had their claims for international protection approved by British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) administration, which runs Diego Garcia. The United Nations and lawyers representing the group say this, in effect, gives them refugee status. The fourth in the group – Lakshani\u2019s father, Khartik – has been permitted to accompany his daughter.<\/span>
\nIt means the group cannot be returned to Sri Lanka, but the UK has said it will not take them in. The Conservative government told the BBC last year that Biot \u201ccannot be a backdoor to the UK\u201d.<\/span>
\nWhile Biot falls under British sovereignty, it is described as \u201cconstitutionally distinct\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe group in Rwanda showed us legal documents, WhatsApp messages, emails and letters they had written over the past year to British officials, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking to be moved.<\/span>
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how many more years we will have to live as stateless prisoners of the British government without freedom,\u201d one message said.<\/span>
\nThe four also told us that harassment had left them frightened to leave their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWe don\u2019t go outside. We\u2019re always scared,\u201d says Lakshani<\/span><\/p>\n

In Lakshani\u2019s apartment, a grey curtain is pulled across the barred windows – shutting the room off from the outside world.<\/span>
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t go outside. We\u2019re always scared,\u201d the 23-year-old told us when we visited her and Khartik, 47. \u201cI don\u2019t have any women here. No friends.\u201d<\/span>
\nBoth say there have been a number of attempted break-ins at their apartment. They show us videos that appear to show intruders being caught by neighbours.<\/span>
\nThey also recalled one incident on a nearby street, when, they say, a group of men had separated them and tried to touch Lakshani while using \u201cvery inappropriate words\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe experience, and others like it, had been triggering for the pair, they said. Lakshani says she was previously sexually assaulted both in Sri Lanka and on Diego Garcia.<\/span>
\nAzhagu told us he and Mayur had also been propositioned in the street. \u201cStrangers came and asked \u2018can I have sex with you?\u2019 People were laughing. We ran to the hospital.\u201d<\/span>
\nThey both reported their concerns to Crown Agents, a non-profit international development company that works with the UK government and serves as the migrants\u2019 main point of contact in Rwanda.<\/span>
\nAll four told us Crown Agents had not taken their complaints seriously.<\/span>
\n\u201cThey asked me: \u2018Why are you going out when you know you will get into trouble?\u2019\u201d says Azhagu, recalling one of the conversations with the company. \u201cI asked them: \u2018Why are you keeping us here when you know there is trouble?\u2019 They didn\u2019t respond.\u201d<\/span>
\nCrown Agents did not respond to specific allegations when approached for comment by the BBC.<\/span>
\nLawyers representing the group said they had raised multiple incidents of street harassment and break-ins with Biot officials, who had not \u201csubstantively responded\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe Biot administration did not respond to requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The migrants set sail from India, were rescued by the UK Navy, and then taken to Diego Garcia<\/span>
\nThe four told us they had not approached Rwandan police for help. They all said they distrusted uniformed law enforcement based on past experiences of abuse.<\/span>
\nThe senior Rwandan official, Ms Picard, said she was \u201cnot sure how we can help if the national authorities have not been approached\u201d.<\/span>
\n\u201c[The migrants\u2019] concerns about their safety are not shared by anybody. Not by Rwandans, not residents,\u201d she told the BBC. \u201cIt breaks my heart to hear that somebody may not feel safe in this country, especially when we’ve worked very hard to make this country safe for everyone.\u201d<\/span>
\nThe UK government\u2019s foreign travel advice says crime levels are relatively low in Rwanda, but there are cases of burglary, theft, bag-snatching and mugging in Kigali.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKhartik and Lakshani say their living situation in Rwanda is better than it was in the Diego Garcia camp<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tamils acknowledged they have had positive interactions in Rwanda but say the negative experiences have compounded past trauma and left them frightened.<\/span>
\nLakshani and Khartik said their living situation in Rwanda was an improvement from the Diego Garcia camp, where they had slept in tents in a rat-infested camp, had limited phone access, and could not cook their own meals.<\/span>
\nThere is a fifth Tamil who remains in Rwanda after also being flown from Diego Garcia following a suicide attempt. He is still pursuing a claim for international protection. The BBC has spoken to him on the phone, as he is currently in the military hospital and not allowed to leave.<\/span>
\nThe BBC has seen a letter formally discharging him – saying he should be treated as an outpatient. He says he is being held against his will after refusing to return to Diego Garcia. His lawyer has called on Biot to secure a solution for him.<\/span>
\nThe four migrants we met have been told that, if they do not wish to remain in Rwanda, they can return to the Diego Garcia camp until being resettled in a \u201csafe third country\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe Foreign Office did not respond to BBC questions about whether Rwanda was being considered as a \u201csafe third country\u201d to permanently resettle the group.<\/span>
\nWhen we asked the migrants about the British government\u2019s plan to use Rwanda to process and house some asylum seekers from the UK, all said they had concerns. \u201cThose refugees will endure the same difficulties and hardship we face,\u201d one said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leigh Day lawyer Tom Short said his two clients in Rwanda had been left by the UK government with no certainty and in a \u201csituation of perennial purgatory\u201d. Court documents, lodged in London, argue the migrants\u2019 treatment in Rwanda, and on Diego Garcia, \u201camounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment contrary to international law\u201d.<\/span>
\nRwandan official Ms Picard said there was \u201cno similarity\u201d between the group of Tamils and those who may move from the UK – who would, she said, be \u201cprocessed and integrated into our society\u201d.<\/span>
\nMs Picard said her country was \u201calways open\u201d to having conversations about settling the Diego Garcia group permanently, and that if that happened, they would be \u201cprovided with all the protections and guarantees and the integration needs they would have\u201d.<\/span>
\nBut \u201cright now they are being treated as medical evacuees who need medical treatment\u201d, she said.<\/span>
\nNo money was given to Rwanda to take in and house the migrants from Diego Garcia, said Ms Picard, and the \u201conly link\u201d with the UK-Rwanda asylum deal was that the two countries were \u201cvery strong partners\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe Foreign Office has declined BBC requests to provide details of the Diego Garcia arrangement. The deal was agreed using unsigned diplomatic notes written in the third person – known as \u201cnotes verbales\u201d – sent between the British Embassy in Kigali and the Rwandan government. The Foreign Office told us that releasing the information under a Freedom of Information request would \u201cprejudice the relations\u201d between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe UN refugee agency has called on the UK to \u201csecure solutions\u201d for the group in Rwanda<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither the Conservatives nor Labour would comment on the fate of the Diego Garcia migrants in Rwanda or what they would seek to do with them if they win the election.<\/span>
\nBoth parties have pledged to bring net migration down, but Labour has said it would scrap the Conservatives\u2019 plan to fly some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.<\/span>
\nMr Sunak has made delivering the Rwanda plan a key priority of his premiership, arguing it will deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats.<\/span>
\nLabour has described the scheme – which has already cost taxpayers \u00a3310m – as a \u201ccon from start to finish\u201d.<\/span>
\nIn a statement, the Liberal Democrats described the cases of Tamils in Rwanda as \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and said they needed to be \u201cproperly investigated\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe Conservatives\u2019 policy to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, they added, was \u201dimmoral, unworkable and incredibly expensive [for] taxpayers\u201d.<\/span>
\nThe Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer has described the Rwanda plan as \u201cpunitive\u201d and \u201cinhumane\u201d – adding that the way to stop people risking their lives in small boats was to provide \u201csafe and legal routes\u201d for them to apply for asylum from overseas.<\/span>
\nIn an interview with Today on BBC Radio 4 earlier this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage appeared to ditch the party’s official draft policy – that it would use British Overseas Territories to rapidly process claims of asylum seekers arriving through safe countries. \u201cI don’t think it’s terribly practical,\u201d he said – adding that people who come to the UK illegally should be deported.<\/span>
\nThe UN refugee agency has called on the UK to \u201csecure solutions\u201d for the group in Rwanda, and about 60 asylum seekers still on Diego Garcia, in line with its \u201cinternational obligations\u201d.<\/span>
\nWhile they wait, the migrants continue to dream of a future elsewhere.<\/span>
\n\u201cWe wonder if we should be thankful to Britain for saving our lives when we arrived at Diego Garcia, or whether we should get angry with them for putting our lives in limbo,\u201d Mayur says.<\/span><\/p>\n

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