Human rights chief condemns language such as ‘swarms of refugees’,saying it is deployed by those seeking to construct political capital from the crisisThe dehumanising language used by UK and other European politicians to debate the refugee crisis has echoes of the pre-second world war rhetoric with which the world effectively turned its back on German and Austrian Jews and helped pave the way for the Holocaust, the UNs most senior human rights official has warned.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, or the UN high commissioner for human rights,described Europe’s response to the crisis as amnesiac and “bewildering”. Although he did not mention any British politicians by name, he said the consume of terms such as “swarms of refugees” were deeply regrettable.
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Source: theguardian.com