Not Necessarily Our Kind of Immigrant

After much whining and foot-dragging, Britain has finally arrested four of perhaps twenty-odd asylum seekers who are accused of taking part in the mass murders which took place in Rwanda in 1994, "while the rest of the world looked on" as the Guardian hath it, and Britain did its best to help the slaughter along. The Rwandan government has assured the Ministry for Dealing with Uppity Natives that, if convicted, the men will not face the death penalty. Although we have a "memorandum of understanding" with Rwanda, as we have with Libya and other reasonable states, Britain does not extradite suspects to countries where they might be executed, only to where they might be tortured; and, since Rwanda is not under US-led occupation, it is obvious that any executions there could not be considered an appropriately Rwandan process.