We are those asylum-seekers , within the societies of European countries,who position ourselves as non-citizens. Non-citizens live in inequality to citizens and live somewhere outside of Europe's citizen-based societies. Citizens, on the other hand, are those people, who because of their citizen-position and nothing else, enjoy all the basic rights, such as the right to work, the right of education, of freedom of movement, and the right to choose one's place of residence freely.
We non-citizens, are deprived of these fundamental rights.
'Human right' slogans by the so-called 'democratic' governments of
Europe don't hold true for us. They are non-existent for us because we
are not citizens who fit into the ridiculous 'human rights' discourse,
in difference to our fellow people who 'belong'. In order to transform
our survival into actual living, in order to become 'human' and have the
same rights as other humans, we must move away from the position of
non-citizens and become citizens.
We are only alive in this situation because we are well aware of why we are here.
We
are here because in more than 120 countries, people fighting for
freedom are being persecuted, or loose their lifes through execution,
torture or inhuman prison conditions. In many African countries, police
officers are able to legally let political activists disappear. We are
here because of wars, fought with weapons and very sophisticated
technologies manufactured in your countrie(s), that have destroyed our
safety in areas where we were born.
We are here because of hundreds
of years of colonization, exploitation and fatal economic boycotts, that
have destroyed political and economical infrastructure of peripheral
countries.
We are here because your political and economic
friendships are supporting dictatorships, far away from “first world”
borders, making it impossible to find ways of forming civil resistance
in those geographical areas.
Because of all of this, we don’t see how
the German government is in a position to demand and question our
reasons for being here or judge on the basis of its own juridical
system.
We know living in welfare and safety is a right for
everybody. In order to achieve the enjoyment of our basic human rights
(right of staying, right of education, right of working, freedom of
movement, right to choose living place and etc.), only one way exists
for us and that is the acceptance of our asylum applications.
Today
in the streets of Bitterfeld, in the so-called democratic Europe with
its human rights slogans scratched to everybody’s psyche, we are
starting a hunger strike aiming at receiving our acceptation of asylum .
Now
it is you who is responsible for our life and we want to ask everybody
out there, whether in the 21st century, the life of a human being is
more important than some pieces of paper?
refugeeprotestbtf.blogsport.de
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Call for support:
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/92391
