Campaign to Break Deportation Culture and Criminalization of Refugees in
Germany and Europe
In Solidarity with Refugee Community Network
Break Deportation Culture – Deportation is criminal and we fight to stop
it!
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European asylum structures and processes ensure that every refugee is
criminalized (for some, even before arriving in Europe). This
criminalization is promptly and meticulously processed, and is
manifested in various forms of societal and institutional discrimination
and racism that ends with deportation. Deportation is criminal. It is
criminal not only because of the obvious denial of the deportee’s right
to freedom of movement and the right to decide his or her abode, but
also because the physical and financial cost as well as the long-lasting
psychological effects are not reckoned with and provided for by the
deportation machinery and its advocates. In the worst cases, some die in
the process of being deported while others are either dumped in
countries where their lives are in danger or where they are actually
killed by the forces they initially fled from. For some years now, the
German authorities have been dubiously collaborating with foreign
Embassies like the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin to issue Travel
certificates to nationals from other African countries that are then
deported to Nigeria with no guarantee of safety whatsoever. Although
this scandal has been exposed, there is no doubt that both parties are
continuing with this devious practice.
The right to asylum and the protection from persecution that is the
hallmark of the Geneva Convention is being rendered meaningless in
Germany as the continued destruction of refugee rights assumes top
priority for the state. Yet politicians, racist groups, misguided and
ignorant individuals continue to blame refugees for all the problems in
the German society to justify and stabilize the deportation culture and
the social exclusion of refugees.
Artificial Safe Countries
In the last weeks and months, many Rromany families have been deported
to the so-called ’safe countries of origin’ of the Balkan region.
Majority of these states like Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegowina,
Kosovo, Mazedonia and Montenegro are countries where discrimination,
threats of and actual persecution make up the horrible daily lives of
Rromanies. In none of these countries is there a guarantee of safety and
security for the Roma but that is of no interest to the German
government and their partners in the EU. Further deportations have been
announced including deportation to Afghanistan that has recently
commenced, but branded as voluntary returns. There are plans to
intensify deportation as the dubious bilateral agreement with North
African countries paves the way for the deportation of refugees from
that region just as more countries are set to be declared „safe“. These
are artificial safe countries. These countries are only safe on the
paper on which German INTERESTS is boldly emblazoned and not for people
who have fled to seek security and dignity for their lives.
Refugees who refuse to sign the deceitful documents for voluntary
repatriation of the foreigners’ office (Ausländerbehörde) live in the
perpetual fear of being deported without notice to countries where some
of them face death threats. This is a perpetual psychological torture
that is deliberately designed by the German government to break the
human will of refugees in this country. It is unconscionable. It is
criminal and it must stop!
Politicians of the ruling parties are zealously advocating for the
deportation of thousands of refugees on a daily basis while the pro
fascist parties have gone as far as calling for authorization for the
police to shoot refugees at sight at the national borders. Spanish
guards have shot and killed innocent refugees at their borders in
Melilla and Ceuta since 2005 in addition to countless other horrible
abuses but these hardly ever make any headlines. This is what has now
been advocated in Germany, the heart of this very developed and
civilized Europe where democracy and freedom overflows so much so that
they want to export them to the so called under-developed countries.
Let us unite to end the deportation and social exclusion of refugees in
Germany!
In these desperate times of aggressive attack on asylum rights geared to
accelerate its total abolition and complemented by the increased right
wing terror, violence and mass mobilisations against refugees in
Germany, we want to offer a common opposition and a platform of
solidarity against these crimes by the German state. It is not enough to
engage in these prevalent superficial and unreflective “Refugees
Welcome” initiatives where most ‘benevolent’ participants expect the
‘poor refugees’ to be grateful for being camped in tents and sport halls
while being bombarded with second hand clothes and shoes.
Refugee Power Matters - For Self-determination and Freedom!
For over 20 years now, refugee voice have been consistent in bringing to
the fore the pertinent issues of freedom and equality, human rights and
dignity for everyone as well as our principled stand against societal
and institutional racism and discrimination. But we have only been able
to do this because of our ability at self-organisation,
self-determination and consistency with our principled positions.
This is why we have to continue with our self-organisation - Let’s
organize ourselves in every refugee camp into political communities
anywhere we are!
Let us unite in solidarity with the relatives of those who died or
disappeared on their way to Europe. Let us unite our solidarity against
any form of repressions of refugees in the camps, in the streets of
Germany and Europe in general. The more united, the stronger we are!!!
We know that the reasons of our escape and flights from our countries
are connected to the global exploitation and destruction of our home
countries through wars and their so-called international treaties from
the global dominance of the reach nations' capitalist hegemony.
We are here because they destroyed our countries.
Let us remember the people we left in our home countries where the
puppet regimes that are beholden to Western interest continue to oppress
them. Let us denounce the exploitation of our resources by the European
countries that are, in collaborating with dictators and their
partnerships in the corruption of the refugee countries while at the
same time oppressing us here in Europe!
Our self-determination and the political autonomy in refugee community
networking are major references that are highly treasured. They are
crucial to our continued efforts to maintain independent refugee
community platforms.
We call on all refugees to rise up to the challenge to uphold these
principles by showing commitment to self-organisation and
self-determination.
We call on supporters and non-refugees to support the refocusing of our
strategies on the way forward by uniting to empower the struggles of the
refugee communities beyond the symbolic and philanthropic to genuine
solidarity.
Our primary aims and objectives are to unite in solidarity with one
another without discrimination of any form, racism and sexism from the
state, any other agencies or from the refugee communities. We want to
promote socio - cultural and political exchange through regular
meetings, discussions and events on the situation in our home countries
and our situation in Germany. By organizing related events and
activities in your tents, camps, regions and beyond, you and we BREAK
the state sponsored ISOLATION and DEPORTATION of refugees in Germany.
22 years on the MOVE of The VOICE Refugee Forum as a Network of refugee
Communities has taught us that UNITY is STRENGTH through an independent
refugee political platform and self-determination in the refugee
community with refugee activists and for refugees. Through our Community
Networking, no refugee shall be left behind!
Let us unite against deportation and deportation prisons, isolation and
social exclusion in tents, sport halls, lagers and refugee containers!
Without the community of the oppressed, there cannot be real struggle!
For contact in Bremen call 0176-22394162. For all others use the contact
details below:
Come to our weekly refugee meetings in Jena - Thueringen: Every Thursday
at 6pm in our office (Schillergäßchen 5), Email:
thevoicerefugeeforum@riseup.net, http://thevoiceforum.org/
The VOICE Refugee Forum – A Network of Refugee Community Initiatives in
Germany:
Our goal is to support the self-organisation of refugees and their
Communities against the Apartheid in isolation camps and ‘Lager’ and to
empower the political Networks and struggles in the camps. The
self-determination of the refugees to liberate themselves from
institutional racism and discrimination is clearly defined; in order to
form a united block against suicidal acts and traumas in Isolation
lagers. We demand solidarity and protest against the collective
punishments through racist persecution of refugees in Germany. We demand
the abolition of the Residence Obligation (Residenzpflicht) and the
segregation of refugees in ‘Lager’ and camps and Deportation prisons. We
stand for Freedom of movement for all, Stop deportation and all
discriminatory laws against refugees. We are united against any form of
colonial injustice and social exclusion of refugees and people without
rights in Germany. "Main focus is to promote networking and Campaigns
for Refugees Community unity and mobilise to represent our own VOICES”
The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena, Schillergässchen 5, 07745 Jena,
E-Mail: thevoicerefugeeforum(at)gmx.de ,
E-mail: the_voice_berlin(at)emdash.org Email: thevoice_bdw@yahoo.de
Internet: http://www.thevoiceforum.org
Phone contacts:
Thueringen, Jena Tel: +49-(0)17624568988,
Baden Württemberg, Stuggart. Tel: +49-(0)17627873832,
Berlin: Tel: +49-(0)1708788124,
Sachsen Anhalt, Wittenberg. Tel: +4917699321843
Bremen, Tel: +4917622394162
Hamburg: +49 174 3935675
Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel. Tel: +49 1768148420 North Rhine-Westphalia,
Wuppertal. Tel: +49176634934230
The VOICE Refugee Forum is an independent community network of refugee
political activists who are fighting for the respect of our human
rights, equality, freedom and human dignity, for the basic existence of
life, in human dignity and for Freedom of Movement.
Appeal to Refugee Communities for Solidarity Network in Germany and
Europe For a life decided by our quest for a free society, equality and
human dignity. http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4099
Hamburg: "We are coming to you" – The refugee community needs you!
Refugee-Migrants Political Community Meeting in Hamburg on the 18th and
19th of August 2016
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4209
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