Public
Declaration and Call
for serious conversations
To
the assembly and the major
of Hamburg
Hamburg,
14th of
May 2013
In the view of our disastrous situation and
of the ignorance towards our
plight and our agony, we direct our demand for a face to face
dialogue to the
deputies of the city of Hamburg in order to find solutions.
First of all some background information
which is known but nevertheless
ignored.
We are victims of the war in Libya and
victims of the European refugee
policies. When the NATO started to bomb Libya in 2011 our lives
were over. We
lost everything we had. We were brought to the Mediterranean
coast, put in a
boat and sent to sea. We lived in refugee camps in Italia, until
Italian
government closed all camps early this year and told us to leave
the country
heading north. We were granted permission to stay according to
humanitarian
protection. At the same time we are refused our resulting right.
Italy failed
to implement the documented protection and the other nations of
the European
Union are not willing to.
Today, we are living on the street in those
countries that are fighting
wars in the name of human rights. It was not our intention to
come to Europe. We
were forced to do it. All of us have been working in Libya, on
the African
continent and have been taking care of our families and
communities with our
income. The NATO- war destroyed everything. Many people were
dying in Libya and
the Mediterranean Sea. We survivors in Europe have no more
choice. We are here
and we will stay. No European country can evade the
responsibility. We will not
to be played with anymore by the European policy. We demand the
facts to be
recognized and thus we demand the full recognition of our rights
as refugees.
Until now we experienced that there is no
will for a solution. On the
contrary, it is tried to make us invisible, to singularize us
and to put us in
impoverishment.
It will be for everybody understandable,
that we can’t endure this in
silence.
In Hamburg our situation is that for now
exactly four weeks we are
living on the streets, without access to medical care, without
access to the
job market, without access to the education system and without
any material
basics. Our physical and psychological integrity is getting
worse day by day.
When the city of Hamburg closed
the
accommodation for homeless people „Pik As“ exactly one month
ago, on 15th
of April 2013 and when they took us with busses to the city,
when they put us
on the street, weren`t the persons responsible knowing that they
would cause
problems? We were told that the only thing we would get is a
ticket back to
Italy. We think that the social and economical situation in
Italy and other
southern European countries is well known and that there is no
possibility for
livelihood for us. If it would be possible, we wouldn´t be here.
So we put the question again in the room,
what should be achieved, if we
get a document of humanitarian protection but at the same time
every
possibility to survive is denied? What could somebody do, whose
basics are all
taken away? Should we go begging or should we become criminals?
It is a very dangerous
situation, we were pushed into. The forced living on the streets
causes large
damage on us and even the whole city, because it inevitably
generates problems
and conflicts in the neighborhoods and districts. Hamburg is a
very rich city
and the wealth is not at last taken from our continent. We are
not coming as
beggars we come in full knowledge of the relationships that
brought us here
against our will. No one can escape of the responsibility and
just ignore us.
The problems need a solution and our rights need to be
recognized. The first
step and our first demand to the
political representatives of the city is a roof over our heads.
The access to
the job market links to this, so that we can provide ourselves.
Access to
health care and education should also be self-evident.
We haven´t survived the war against Libya to
be now dying on the street.
We seriously call all parties and institutions to immediately
get in direct
contact with us, to find solutions. Our homelessness allows no
delay.
Representing the group of refugees from
Libya:
Affo Tchassei:
0176-717 402
36
Anane Kofi Mark:
0152-170 045
94
Asuquo Udo: 0152 146 725 37
Supported by The Caravan for the rights of
refugees and migrants-
Hamburg
Ralf Lourenco:
0176-303 66 55
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