I would rather they killed me than send me to Turkey

[DuctapeFatwa]

As she faces extradition to a country she has never known, the eldest of the Ay children makes an emotional appeal to the first minister

I know the law says I am not your responsibility but when we were in Dungavel for more than one year, which was a very bad thing for the children, so many of the Scottish people – schoolchildren and adults and teachers and some politicians – sent us cards and letters of support. Some people visited us every week. Now we are going to be sent to Turkey.

If we were allowed to come and live in Scotland, we would work very hard at school and get a good education and get a good job and help others...
My sisters and my brother and my mum can't sleep at the moment very well because they're scared that in the morning the police will come and take them and deport them to Turkey. I would rather die than go to Turkey because of the terrible things that happened to my mum and my aunt. My aunt was in prison for six years because she was supporting the Kurdish people. She was tortured and persecuted and beaten and raped and covered in cold water then given electric shocks.

She has lost count of the number of times she was raped and the number of men who have raped her. This did not happen 15 years ago. It happened last year....Sometimes I wish I had never been born and I would rather they just killed me in Germany than send me to this kind of life. When my mum was 17 she was eight months' pregnant with my big sister and the soldiers came to their village and asked where my dad was...took my mum into the prison. It was just for two or three days until my dad came and they let her go but she was hurt and freezing and she lost her baby.....I feel like a European child because I was born in Germany...English became our first language. It is the language we think in...

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/10176.html

[KG]

1. gee, the RWers didn't bring up

the Turkish 'rape rooms' and 'torture chambers' when they were trying to bribe the turks into using turkey for a base to launch an attack against another repressive gov't with rape rooms and torture chambers.

seems not all rape rooms and torture chambers are created equal.

[Dirk39]

2. Fortress Europe...

this is how our leaders in Europe label their agenda.

Between 1993 and 2003 at least 145 people died on their way to Germany. I'm just mentioning Germany.

Not much talk about it, it's not the Berlin Wall. It's capitalism. The more "globalisation" there is, the less borders there are for corporations and investors, the more borders are there for us.

And this is how you die in social-democratic/green third way paradise Germany, if you don't have the right papers.


"Aamir Mohamed Ageeb, a Sudanese refugee, was killed by border police during his forced deportation from Germany.
On the night of May 29th the young refugee Aamir Mohamed Ageeb died during his forced deportation to Sudan. Because he physically tried to resist his deportation, his hands and feet were taped and he was made to wear a motor cycle helmet by the accompanying officers of the German border police. Shortly after the departure the officers pushed his head down to his chin. When they raised him up again he was dead."

"How different the reactions this time, when such a death happens in Germany. Here, there is no public shock, outrage or shame. Instead, media and politicians alike blame the victim for his death, because he offered resistance to his deportation. Deportation in Germany cannot be questioned, or put on trial.
Yet Aamir Mohamed Ageeb’s death once again brings before our eyes the brutal reality of forced deportations, the reality that deportations are torture, that deportations are murder. Joy Gardiner (UK), Semira Adamu (Belgium), Marcus Omofuma (Austria) and Aamir Ageeb were killed by the State as they struggled for the right to live.
Far more refugees facing deportation have been terrorised into taking their own life, as the fear of imminent torture if returned to the country they fled from, outweighed the fear of death.
To expect that refugees will not fight with their last breath against deportation, shows boundless naivety.
Countless are the refugees who, upon their deportation to the countries which they had attempted to flee from, are tortured, murdered or disappear without trace.
Yet the German State continues to endorse the likes of Torture States like Turkey or Nigeria, while it remains deaf to the evidence brought by independent Human Rights Associations."

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/letters/news15/ge.html
http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/~rp/ageeb/index.php?~.~Berichte~Concerns_in_Europe_Germany.htm

Noone is illegal, besides Schily, Bush, Blair and Schröder. And yes, I'm tired, I'm so damned tired about all these scapegoat-discussions about how many foreigners a "wealthy" country can afford, about illegal workers stealing "our" work. If one corporation dismisses 10.000 people and leaves them without work, it's pretty easy to find 10.000 moderates complaining about what a threat illegal immigrants are to "us". Count me out, I'm not one of "us".

"The proletarians of this earth have no home, no native country, no fatherland" (Karl Marx)

Dirk