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Living practically on morsels and under life threatening situations will certainly urge one to find a best possible way out and that’s what has put interpreters into dilemma. Their fellow countrymen consider them to be traitors and occupying army as an employee whom they give money to get the work done.
It has been warned time and again that British government is not taking any decisions regarding the plight of Iraqi interpreters who are working with British army in Basra. There are innumerable cases of kidnapping, torture and killing by Iraqi militiamen, who consider interpreters blood traitors, collaborating with their country’s occupiers. Unlike British government, Danish government is considering the grave threat to its interpreters flew all sixty of its interpreters back to Denmark with its troops.
According to the Times, “bitter squabbling between the Ministry of Defense, the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in recent months lies behind Tony Blair’s decision not to grant asylum to translators, despite the demands from leading military figures and politicians from all parties that the Government should meet a moral obligation to Iraqis who have served Britain.”
To get asylum in third country is yet another illusion. To get asylum in third country, one has to travel to one of the neighboring country; Syria or Jordan. Such an option is becoming increasingly difficult because both the countries have tightened their entry restrictions to Iraqi refugees.
In an interview to BBC, Des Browne said that about 20, 000 Iraqis have helped British forces since 2003 and that British government will be able to come up with positive resolution before the end of autumn. But the understanding of fear that granting asylum to the translators will set a precedent that might open the floodgates to thousands more claims, rise the apprehensions about timely review in any policy by autumn.
Interpreters face mortal danger in both ways for their efforts to earn living. On one side it’s the troops and on the other its militia hunting them down for their jobs.