[Testimony] The symbol of the Refugee Black box: Break the silence,
break deportation by Regina Mauricia Kiwanuka
Foto: http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4320
Some say that the Africans must try and forget or accept the calamities
that befell the African continent. “Stop singing colonial injustices,
stop singing the slave trade slogan,” they say. We all know that these
calamities have not only ravaged other lands in other continents, they
have succeeded in eliminating populations over populations of various
nations in the course of escaping the detritus left behind by the
aggressors. Today, a refugee is either burned alive in cell number 5 and
forever silenced, or brutally deported and left for dead, or they are
dumped here in asylum camps with horrible conditions.
That is the situation at home and abroad, and that is why refugees shall
never forget and or try and accept the calamities because the old ones
are being replaced with fresh ones. Refugees are ambushed here and also
at home with the injustices in our homelands and the ones here in
Europe.
Witnessing our brothers and sisters getting kidnapped from the shores of
the African continent and dragged to faraway continents to enslave and
abuse them in the most inconceivable manner that shall haunt and torment
the Africans for generations to come is not something that leaves one´s
memory. As if that was not enough, before the poor African peasants
could recover from the first dreadful trauma, the very same people
returned in another form of enslavement known as colonialism.
The continent was demarcated to satisfy the colonial masters´ tastes and
likings. The demarcation separated the populations under the divide and
rule policies of the masters. Before the African people picked up the
pieces to try and reorganize their continent, the resilient leaders of
the continent that were to guide it back to its tracks, were killed off
one by one by the same aggressors. Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso), Kwame
Nkrumah (Ghana), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Ben. Kiwanuka (Uganda),
Stephen Biko (South Africa), the list is endless.
This confusion resulting from the selfish intrusion that tore the
African continent apart during the masters´ conflict among themselves
for ownership of various lands and regions, is the same tyrannical
operation imposed on the minorities in the name of deportation here in
the federal republic of Germany. This collision that impacted the
African continent and spread on to other lands in various continents has
compounded us together in a form of the minorities of the western
hemisphere.
The black box symbolizes the subsequent transparency expected to emerge
from all the atrocities imposed on the refugees in Europe and especially
here in Germany. The black box must be broken to reveal and to correct
all the wrongs subjugated to that fateful Airplane. The Airplane was
enormously tampered with and killing many in the process, that reads our
homelands. We are the refugees, the minorities that should be
compensated within the human rights horizons, compensated for the
afflictions that befell us in accordance with the black box´s findings.
The aggressive deportations, the inhuman conditions in the asylum camps,
the social exclusions that shall always remind us of the apartheid, the
burning of refugees like Oury Jalloh in cell number 5 in Dessau. The
brutal killings of refugees within the police brutality in the form of
serving and protecting the citizens, the various forms of psychological
torment are all patterns of brutal and greedy exploitation.
This interprets that the Berlin conference of 1884 to 1885 that begun
the colonial journey is tantamount to the FRONTEX. The FRONTEX is the
killer whale to the refugees, just as the horrible nightmare of
colonialism affected all refugees and destroyed their countries. FRONTEX
is another REPRODUCTION of the same exploitation and infringement,
because this time the invasion to our numerous countries whether
colonized or not has a different formula.
Silence is not an option, it is a non-existing phrase in our
understanding. The ancestors in those days had no voice, they were
attacked and destroyed right before their very eyes, some were even
caught unaware. This is another generation that is expected to respect
humanity for proper reconstruction and to eradicate the ignorance of the
society on the abuses and crimes of the deportation regimes and to
unfold the colonial injustices of the system up to this day.
Regina Mauricia Kiwanuka, Oldenburg
The VOICE Refugee Forum - Refugee Community Network
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