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netherlands:save the lives of the 5 kurdish hungerstrikers by fabel v/d illegaal/internationalistisch comit Sunday April 15, 2001 at 05:07 PM |
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5 kurdish refugees in the netherlands are in hungerstrike since the 5th of february. The Dutch authorities want to deport 9000 Kurdish refugees to Northern-Iraq. We got to stop them!!
Urgent call for action! Pass this information on to all your other contacts!
Please sign this solidarity-statement and send it to the responsible authorities!
SAMI, MAJID, AZAD, HOSSEIN AND NIHAD ARE IN HUNGERSTRIKE SINCE FEBRUARI 5TH
THEIR LIFE IS IN DANGER!
Sami, Maji, Azad, Hossein and Nihad are five Kurdish refugees. They went in hungerstrike two months ago because the Dutch governement has declared Northern-Iraq a safe place and wants to deport 9000 Kurds. Thousands of Kurdish will soon end up in a very bad situation. They will be forced to leave the asylumseeker-centres will be denied social security. Return to Iraq however is impossible.
The treatment of Kurdish refugees by the Dutch governement through the years, can be characterized by two key-words: criminalize and illegalize… Kurdish refugees always were treated as “illegal immigrants” who left their country because of economic reasons. On the highest European level anti-migration-programs were constructed. Even the cooperation with torture-state Turkey, responsible for ethnic cleansing and the dislocation of millions of Kurds was no problem at all. High-ranked European police-officers worked together with Necati Bilican, former governor of Turkish-Kurdistan and responsible for tens of killed and disappeared prisoners and hundreds tortured prisoners. Im making te anti-migration-policy works the European Union chooses these criminals as allies and talks with them about the establishment of detention-centres for thousands of Kurdish refugees.
The new magic word is “internal flight alternative”. However it’s an “alternative” seriously questioned even by the UNHCR (Berlin january 2001). Ignored is the fact that already hundreds of thousands refugees are staying in Northern Iraq, from Central Iraq, Iran and Turkey, who live their under very bad conditions. The region is in a state of civil war and recently 10.000 Turkish soldiers invaded the area. Northern Iraq is one of the most unsafest and unsteady places on earth. Precisely on that spot the EU wants to establish a reservation for thousands of Kurdish refugees.
The five hungerstrikers began their action as an ultimate attempt to call attention to their situation and that of thousands partners in distress. From the beginning they were completely ignored, by the media, politicians, responsible authorities, their lawyers and doctors. This hushing up and concealment of the situation of Kurdish refugees led to an attempt of one of the hungerstrikers to burn himself and a violent escalation of a demonstration against the deportation of Kurdish refugees, The Hague march 29th.
The situation of the hungerstrikers is very critical. The five lost tens of kilogrammes weight, they have blood in their urine, some of them regularly lose consciousness, all of them suffer dizziness and muscle-weakness. Something must move immediately! Otherwise the hungerstrikers will not survive it.
The forced departure out of the asylumseeker-centres and the deportation to Northern Iraq is a serious violation of human rights!
To let the hungerstrikers die is murder!
Therefore the undersigned demand:
Immediate recognition as refugee of all Kurds!
Signature:
Name:
Organization:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Address this solidarity-statement to:
Ministerie van justitie, t.a.v. staatssecretaris E. Kalsbeek, fax 31-70-370 79 00
Staatssecretaris E. Kalsbeek, Tintlaan 83, 2719 AM, Zoetermeer, Nederland
IND, t.a.v. hoofddirecteur H. Schoof, fax Rijswijk 31-70-370 34 02,
fax Den Haag 31-70-370 31 34,
E-Mail: voorlichting@ind.minjus.nl
COA, fax 31-70-307 15 19
We ask you to send copies to
fax, 31-7-5134 907
De Fabel van de Illegaal, Koppenhinksteeg 2, 2312 HX, Leiden, Nederland
Solidarity-statements to the hungerstrikers and protest-statements to the asylumseekers-centres to:
AZC Waddinxveen, fax 31-182 - 641 630,
Zuidelijke Rondweg 225, 2742 HZ, Waddinxveen, Nederland,
t.a.v. Sami Abderrachman Ismail, Haji Hossein Ali, Hossein Majid Mohammed
Amin en Nihad Jousef Ali
AZC Alphen A/d Rijn, fax 31-172 - 240 454,
Eikenlaan 46, 2404 BR, Alphen a/d Rijn, Nederland,
t.a.v. Azad Mohammad Hazar
De Fabel van de Illegaal
Internationalistisch Comitee