Refugees
Catriona Troth writes about the plight of refugees and an imaginative exhibition and performance at Amersham Meeting
‘Refugees are the human face of international injustice. They are the place – in this country – where we see the real impact of inequality: armed conflict, the inability of failed states to provide a secure home for their citizens, and abusive governments.’
Michael Bartlet, at that time the parliamentary liaison officer for Britain Yearly Meeting, wrote these words in the Guardian in 2010.
At the end of world war two more than eleven million people on the European continent found themselves stranded far from home. They were former Nazi slave labourers, liberated prisoners-of-war and concentration camp survivors, as well as East Europeans fleeing westwards to escape the Soviet army.
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