un peu d'actualité sur les Gurkhas
Fury over Gurkha settlement plan Campaigners have reacted with anger to new rules on the eligibility of Gurkha veterans to live in the UK.
The Home Office said that new rules would allow about 4,300 more to settle, but the Gurkha Justice Campaign said it would be just 100.
Actress Joanna Lumley, a campaigner for the Gurkhas, said the announcement made her "ashamed of our administration".
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas denied he had betrayed the Gurkhas, adding: "This improves the situation."
He said: "It has never been the case that all Gurkhas pre-1997 were to be allowed to stay in the country. With their dependents you could be looking at 100,000 people.
"It's simply not true that we have betrayed the Gurkhas. When people read the guidelines they will see the sense of them."
'Truly appalling'
In September 2008, the High Court ruled that immigration rules denying Gurkhas who retired before 1997 - about 36,000 - an automatic right to stay in the UK were unlawful.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8014265.stmet un peu d' histoire
Who are the Gurkhas? Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years, but who are these fearsome Nepalese fighters?
"Better to die than be a coward" is the motto of the world-famous Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who are an integral part of the British Army.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2786991.stmédit 21/05/09
Une bonne nouvelle pour les Gurkhas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8060607.stmGurkhas win right to settle in UK
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