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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

General

My last post was not explicit enough but I was trying not to be too specific. I know the type of refugee situation Dan is describing but this is fundamentally different with the letters insisting that she wrote them but containing information that she doesn’t in fact know. While her spoken English is poor the letters are written in very sophisticated English – whoever has been writing them didn’t need spell checker or a dictionary!

I suspect the rape allegations are true but I’m doubtful that they were in the context of a failed or collapsing state. In fact it is odd that she was given asylum, as the country concerned is now largely safe.

I often do refer to specialist agencies but part of the problem here is that the letters are written about a NGO. So it becomes a balance of trying to protect her but not allowing serious abuse.

This is a very unusual case – thank heavens!