An open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron from Veteran Aid’s Chief Executive Dr Hugh Milroy appears in The Times ‘Thunderer’ opinion column today urging him to act on behalf of Foreign & Commonwealth soldiers who are facing deportation.
Under the heading Our soldiers from overseas are being treated shamefully it references the words of Rudyard Kipling whose 1890 poem The Last of the Light Brigade describes how soldiers went from ‘hero to zero’ over century ago.
The full story Barred from Britain: Commonwealth soldiers treated as slaves (The Times), features individual cases and reminds readers that Fijian soldier Ratu Silibaravi who served in Afghanistan was killed in May.
