I didn't know about this but it's horrible. The forceful deportation of Chinese merchant seaman who helped the war effort straight after the end of the war is awful.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-d
They didn't even tell the families they had been deported:
"A family friend remembers Kinnin’s mum saying, “Oh he’s stayed out playing mah-jong, because all his clothes are still there. There’s no problem.” But he never came home."
"Where mysteries remain, it is because the British state determined that we should not know — and that wives and children would live out their lives, in some cases, their whole lives, never knowing."
The families left here weren't even given social support because marrying a Chinese man meant that the British wives became "aliens".
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