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Home Office films Roma deportations

By Liz Fekete

21 September 2002

There was criticism of the Home Office after it allowed TV crews to film the deportation of forty-nine failed asylum seekers, including a dozen children, on a special charter flight from Stanstead airport to the Czech Republic.

The deportation, code-named Operation Elgar, was designed to demonstrate to both the public in Britain and the Czech Republic that rejected asylum seekers were being removed from the UK.

Guardian 21.9.02

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