Urgent appeal !
Over 1200
refugees and migrants at risk of forced deportation from Libya to their
countries of origin. All come from Sub-Saharan Africa: 350 Eritreans are, the
others come from Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
Radio and
television Libyan announced that: "We are forced to take these measures,
because many of them are people carrying diseases and other problems."
Obviously this
is a motivation absurd and clearly racist: it is a hunting African. All this
happens within a few days of the fall of the old regime.
The Libyan
government announced in this way to protect refugees and migrants, but they are
treated worse than animals. Forcibly deported in the south of Libya,
specifically in Sebha and Barika (70 km from Sebha), where they arrived after
12 hours of grueling journey, crammed onto trucks like animals.
UNHCR has
already been alerted must avoid at all costs the deportation of asylum seekers
and migrants in their countries of origin, according to the Geneva Convention
of 1951, Convention which Libya's Ghedafi, I have never subscribed to that of
today, but, it is noted that the former leader had signed the Convention of
African Unity for the protection of refugees and displaced persons.
We ask: -
Compliance with the international conventions that protect the rights of
refugees and displaced persons. The Libyan authorities to allow UNHCR to
detention camps in the south of the country, so that it can be made a test of
the actual conditions of the people held there. Appropriate assistance and full
respect for their human dignity.
Fr. Mussie Zerai
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