Inside the remote army base where hero Afghans are housed after being welcomed to the UK
Arriving in the darkness, the packed coach passes through the imposing metal fence and pulls up on a remote and silent army base. Shuffled off the coach one by one, the group of men, women and children are taken to a large hall, before being handed, among other items, a tube of toothpaste.
One woman is 38 weeks pregnant, desperate for a safe place to bring her child into the world. Others have been waiting more than a year to find sanctuary.
Finally, they are in the UK.
“Now we feel like we are home,” one Afghan father, who spent a year in a hotel in Pakistan waiting for relocation to the UK, told The Independent. “We are feeling better and out of pressure. We have been waiting for this moment, thinking of the day when we would arrive in the UK, and fortunately we are here now.”
This man is one of more than
