A damning report confirms that Liverpool families were "brutally ripped apart" by the "racist and coercive" actions of the British government, according to a city MP.
Riverside MP Kim Johnson was speaking today after a government confirmed that Chinese seamen were forcibly deported, many of them away from their wives from Liverpool after the Second World War. Ms Johnson has been campaigning for the truth to be revealed about the scandal and for a full apology to the families affected.
Today, a Home Office report confirmed that Chinese seamen in Liverpool were targeted with Deportation Orders, threats and coercion to force them out of the country and away from their spouses and families. Some of the men were snatched from the streets of Liverpool, often in the dead of night. Many of them had helped with the Allied war effort.
