Report on Push backs and Police violence at the Serbo-Croatian border
[Source:
http://moving-europe.org/2016/01/30/report-on-push-backs-and-police-violence-at-the-serbo-croatian-border/]
“This is not an equal distribution of rights”
(Refugee from Pakistan in Belgrade, 23/1/2016)
During the last weeks we talked to around 100 people who are stuck in
Belgrade. Through the conversations and discussions with these refugees,
we realized that the stories we listened to were not only single and
isolated personal experiences, but that they form a pattern: A pattern
of structural violence, which is enactedupon the refugees to prevent
them from travelling on and to regain control over their lives and
futures. This is not done by Croatian authorities alone. This strategy
is part of an EU-wide strategy to restrict flight, migration and the
freedom of movement.
„I want to go to a different place. Some nights I sleep on the streets
in Belgrade, some nights I take the train to Šid to sleep in the camp
there, without money, without anything, with the hope they let me pass,
as we are many. We have to hide to enter in the camp in Šid as our
documents expired. We sleep there, and we try to pass again, and again,
and again. Two days ago I tried to enter the Krnjača camp. They didn’t
let me in because they said my documents expired. The guard at the
entrance didn’t let us in, he was saying “Go, go, go away!”. I asked him
why other people are welcomed to sleep in the camp, and we are treat
like animals. We are left to sleep in the streets, in the cold and snow,
while others can at least get warm in the camp. I didn’t try to pass the
border on foot. It is too cold and I don’t know if I could make it in
these conditions. There are many people that tried to cross on foot, but
Croatian police caught them. I have seen police violence; I saw many
people assaulted by Croatian police.“ (M., 26 years old)
Read the complete report here:
http://moving-europe.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/28.01.2016_Report-Police-Violence-and-Push-Backs.pdf
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