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nt to all ex employees asking for help i ll reproduce it in full later it says among other things that ex employees applying for asylum may have to wait until 2009 this is disgraceful people are being hunted in basra now and the other bureaucratic obstacles are the ones we warned about when david miliband made the october 9th statement ex employees must prove that they worked 12 months continuously after the 1st january 2005 excluding those who were identified as murder targets during the course of the sadrist uprising in 2004 or who worked for the duration of a battalion s six month tour and became known as collaborators in that time this comes down to one simple principle the iraqis whom our government should help first are those who are at risk of being murdered for having worked for the british it is still not too late for the government to implement this principle it is administratively possible it is morally imperative and from the government s viewpoint it is now politically advisable a continued policy of literally niggling people to death putting bureaucratic obstacles in the way of men and women in fear of their lives for having worked for british troops will attract nothing but contempt from the press and the public once more then write to your mp his or her address is the house of commons westminster london sw1a 0aa you can look your mp up here make the points above courteously an insulted mp will do nothing for threatened iraqis ask your mp if he or she will sign early day motion 401 which raises these concerns and if he or she will write to david miliband asking for an explanation you can also give them my email address danhardie blog gmail com and tell them that i am in touch with a number of iraqis in basra and damascus and will be happy to come to westminster to give them a concise briefing as i already have for a number of mps only pressure got this government to announce a partial grudging change of policy only pressure will stop this government from finding bureaucratic excuses to abandon its moral obligations and leave its former employees to the death squads posted in iraqi employees campaign 7 comments letting them die november 25 2007 i ve had emails from three people who claim to be and who almost certainly are iraqi former employees of the british government all three say that they and their former colleagues are still at risk of death for their collaboration we ll call the first man employee one he worked for the british for three years i started in the beginning of the war with commandos in 30 of march 2003 then continued with 23 pioneer regt and in 08 07 2003 i have joined the labour support unit lsu his british friends knew him as chris the british government has announced that he can apply for help if he can transport himself to the british base outside basra or to the embassies in syria or jordan it doesn t seem to occur to anyone that there might be problems with this i can email and telephone this man so can any foreign office official it should not be impossible to verify his story and then send him the funds he needs to get to a less unsafe arab country but that is not happening here s an email exchange we had the other day my questions are in italics 1 are you still in iraq yes i m still hidden in somewhere in the hell of basra 2 is there any reason you cannot travel to the british army base at basra airbase to ask for asylum of course we cannot travel to bia basra international airbase due to the militia keep watched all the ways to bia and they got their own fake check points there although we claimed for asylum through the internet we sent our application to the claim office at bia but we afraid that the british are going to take a long time to process our claims also we are very worried if they will offer just some money instead of asylum please sir inform all the british people that we looking for asylum and just the asylum will save our lives also we can t travel to syria anymore to claim for asylum there as the syrian government issued new conditions for iraqis who want to travel to their country 3 can you tell me how and when the militias threatened you in 2006 i have threatened by militia that hated me because i work and help coalition forces in iraq i told my bosses about that but they said we can t do anything for you because we have nothing to do with civilian and we don t have any army rules or orders to help you then i continued my daily work with british army few days later the militia attacked my house trying to catch me but i was at the work at that time they beaten my family and told them we want your son or we will kill all of you since that day i decided to leave my job and change my home place but until this moment the militia trying to find and kill me i m always changing my place trying to hidden from them they know that i left my job but they don t care they just want to kill me they called me collaborator and traitor and they asked everybody know me about my place they told them anyone know anything about name he should tell us immediately and also they said we will never give up until we catch name they work for ministry of interior so they controlled most of government departments and they work under that cover 4 do you have any family members who are also threatened by militias or who depend on you if so how many of them are there and how old are they of course my family depends on me especially in the finance side as i m the older son between seven sons and daughters they got on other hand my parents cannot working as they are very old employee two is in syria and is applying for aid from the british embassy in damascus he can prove that he has worked for the british for over 12 months after the magic date of 1st january 2005 but he still isn t safe he is staying illegally in syria having considerably over run the 15 day visa on which he entered the country he s been obliged to get forms for asylum or resettlement aid from the syrian government security men who guard the british embassy he tells me if i see any syrian officer i really get fear becuase of my expired visa the british government which asked us to accept that it was invading iraq in part because of its horror at the brutality of the ba athist dictatorship is now perfectly happy to leave its own former employees to the mercies of syrian ba athists colleagues of this man are also hiding in damascus and are even worse off than he is because they don t meet the perverse and arbitrary time stipulations he writes i know 4 former interpreters worked less than a year for the british dh but they went to the embassy and they filled the paper with out telling the guards we had worked for less than a year the syrian guards have got instructions from the embassy british embassy in damascus dh that they do not give that form to any interpreter who worked for british less than a year or any former interpreter who worked in 2003 and fled to syria before 2005 employee three sent me copies of his army id card and photos of him with smiling scottish soldiers he worked for the army in 2003 who then recommended that he work for erinys a private security firm which the british government hired to form an oil protection force yes a mercenary firm a mercenary firm hired by our government and paid for with our money both when working for the army and when working for the british government s proxies he was identified as a target by the militias the british government made him a death squad target that same british government will not be giving him any kind of assistance not even a small cash handout to help him live elsewhere in the middle east it has announced that it will not help any iraqi whose direct employment ended before the 1st january 2005 that johnson beharry was awarded the victoria cross for acts of courage in may and june 2004 when the mahdi army attacked the british and were fought off with many hundreds of casualties you ve heard this before but it s now more important than ever the last lot of letters and emails got the government to announce a change in policy an inadequate change badly implemented the next lot of letters and emails will force the government to announce another change in policy one that will be properly implemented and will not be based on leaving people to die your mp s address is the house of commons westminster london sw1a 0aa his or her email address is probably surnameinitial parliament uk eg browng parliament uk please use the talking points below to send an email and a print letter to your mp and chase them for an answer and be courteous an insulted mp will not raise this matter with ministers and that will lead to more avoidable deaths when you get an answer email me at danhardie blog gmail com and let me know what they said i agree that it seems egocentric for me to ask you to put your mp in touch with me but what alternatives do we have i am in direct contact with iraqi employees pleading with me to do something to help them i cannot help them members of parliament including david miliband need to read what these iraqis are saying talking points on october 9th david miliband announced that the british government would assist former employees in iraq so long as they had worked for it after 1st january 2005 and for 12 months or more that abandons several hundred iraqis who have been targetd for murder because they worked for the british before that date and in 2004 fighting between the mahdi army and the british was at its peak or because they worked for less than that period often leaving their jobs at the end of a british battalion s six month tour the british government must help iraqi employees on the basis of the risk they face not according to an arbitrary time stipulation this only affects a few hundred iraqis whom we are well able to shelter and for whom we have a direct moral responsibility even those iraqi employees who qualify for assistance are not being properly assisted iraqis in basra are not able to apply via the british army in basra interational airbase since it is ringed with militia checkpoints iraqi ex employees in damascus are being screened by syrian policemen guarding the british embassy and delayed by lengthy bureaucratic procedures when they apply for asylum although many of them are illegally overstaying their syrian visas and face deportation back to iraq a blogger called dan hardie is directly in touch with a number of iraqi employees via email and phone he is willilng to brief mps as concisely as possible either over the phone or via email he can be reached at danhardie blog gmail com footnote re authenticity the isps confirm that one email was definitely sent from damascus the others from satellite networks serving the middle east including iraq i have spoken to two of them on the phone using iraqi telephone numbers many thanks to alex harrowell and surreptitious evil for their work on this a times journalist in the region tells me that employee one and employee two are certainly authentic she has been in contact with them herself the other has sent me scanned copies of his british army ids and photographs of him with smiling soldiers as well as a lengthy reference from erinys he either is who he says he is or has stolen the documents of the man he is claiming to be and given that he names soldiers who know him and will have to turn up in person and be photographed to claim asylum at a british embassy he would have no chance of perpetrating a successful fraud footnote re the wider refugee crisis conceivably the sunni shi ite violence in the american occupied areas of iraq is diminishing this story quoting iraqi governmentsources argues that it is though the iraqi government has a vested interest in claiming an improvement in response the un high commissioner for refugees argues that there has been no improvement but even if the unhcr is wrong the iraqi government is right and things have got better for refugees from baghdad and neighbouring areas that is sadly irrelevant to britain s employees in the south of the country what s still the case is that basra is now effectively under the control of various shi ite groups who have varying amounts of loathing for the british and their iraqi employees and that one of the most powerful is the mahdi army who fought several outright battles against british troops and have a long track record of killing locally employed civilians posted in iraqi employees campaign 15 comments iraqi employees how to apply for asylum november 2 2007 a number of iraqi employees have contacted me recently asking about the british government s scheme to resettle them in britain or the middle east if you are an iraqi employee and need this information you should go here if you are having any problems applying for this scheme or if you are an iraqi employee who has worked for less than 12 months for the british please email me at danhardie blog gmail com and i will do all i can to help you posted in iraqi employees campaign leave a comment iraqi employees the next letter october 11 2007 our government is still proposing to abandon people to the death squads for having worked for the troops it sent in our name to iraq the twelve months stipulation is utterly unacceptable in the miliband statement the government committed itself to doing nothing to shelter people at risk from death squads for having worked for british soldiers or diplomats unless they can prove that they have worked for the british for a continuous period of twelve months there are a lot of local employees who fled their jobs before 12 months precisely because they had been targeted or who did a 6 month tour for one british battalion and were then told to go and work for the americans or who did 12 months or more with interruptions or who weren t given proper documentation by the army mark brockway former sergeant major ta royal engineers said so several times at the meeting on october 9th so did andrew alderson major yeomanry so do the employees and serving soldiers who are in touch with them or with me by email this is indescribably shabby it has to be changed the first letters to mps worked telephoning the offices of mps i was frequently told they ve written to the home office about it they got all these letters from constituents so without the letters that you wrote we wouldn t have had brown s partial climbdown which may at least save the lives of those hundreds of iraqis who can prove that they worked for twelve months for us write another letter or write your first and we can save some more lives as before bullet points for a letter are below so is a form letter but don t send it unchanged adapt it a lot it s just there to help people over writer s block again be courteous when writing to your mp and put your full address including the postcode to indicate that you are a constituent if you don t know who your mp is you can find out here you should...