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We cannot stand idly by in the face of enormous suffering while ‘our’ government puts the politics of divide and rule above human lives, says WEYMAN BENNETT of Stand Up to Racism
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THE horrors of the war in Ukraine, as with any other conflict, present us all with a choice — how do we respond to the humanitarian crisis?

For millions of ordinary people an outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the conflict is their natural response. But, as ever, we are also seeing the failures and prejudices of those in power.

As with the recent crisis in Afghanistan, the British government is utterly failing to rise to the reality of the scale of the human disaster in Ukraine.

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