Call for urgent appeal to refugee - migrants communities for solidarity:
Balkan Refugees Fight Against Deportation in Jena - In Solidarity With The Refugee Community in Germany
Collective Statement by families from the Balkans (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia) on deportation chains who are currently still living in Jena.
We want to use the opportunity to appeal to all refugee communities to endorse this statement and show solidarity with our resistance. Our self-organisation and resistance calls for unity against deportation and social exclusion of refugees in Germany. Please see the statement below.
Your community statements or letter of Solidarity will be appreciated as we keep you updated on protest. All information with your contact addresss, telephone, email, facebook or homepage should be sent to The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena, Email: thevoicerefugeeforum@riseup.net, https://thevoiceforum.org.
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Balkan Refugees Fight Against Deportation in Jena - In Solidarity With The Refugee Community in Germany
Collective Statement by families from the Balkans (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia) on deportation chains who are currently still living in Jena.
We moved to Germany a couple of years ago and have gone through virtually every horrible everything here. Since the last several months our friends and relatives are being deported on a weekly basis. Our lives have been made so difficult by the authorities that we feel compelled to sign our ‘Voluntary Return’ – to places/countries were neither our safety nor security could be guaranteed by anyone. We have made great efforts to integrate ourselves into this society, attended German classes even against all odds and complied with every rule we were asked, but all in vain. We remain insecure and the mental and psychological torture through threat of deportation persists.
We just can't understand!
We don't understand why we are not allowed to work even though several times we were literally assured of being employed on probation and were offered employment or internships. We are used to working in order to feed our families. We don't want somebody else's money. All we want is human security and a life in dignity.
We don't understand why we had to move that often and didn't get an own apartment.
We don't understand why in the beginning we were welcomed through many visits from German citizens and political parties and suddenly in September-October 2015 we were told that our countries were safe. Countries that have not been safe for decades now cannot become safe overnight because some politicians and bureaucrats declare it so. It is cynical, dubious and malicious. We are expected to pay the cost of this with our lives. It is unfair as it is unjust!
Since then, nobody ever came again to visit or invite us anymore.
We don't understand why we aren't permitted anymore by the social welfare office to see nurses/doctors or attend language courses.
We don't understand why there are different legal rules for us than for the other refugees.
As long as we're here we have the same rights. We are human beings and our lives matter. We've got the impression that in the meantime it is becoming the same to us everywhere: whether in the Balkans or here in Germany, the authorities are meting out the same ill treatment to us. We are being left to choke and die.
And German Authorities don't understand:
that we can't go back because our countries are not safe countries,
that at our place there is still blood vengeance and debts lead to death threats,
that our children have no chance of education, healthcare and protection,
that the argumentation of politicians are so far from reality and
that we haven't got any choice when we go back there
that our deportation means destroying whole families and many of us will become ill due to stress.
For months we've been provoked and our lives have been systematically made difficult in order for us to give up the will to survive, live in dignity, to sign our own deportation. The German state is not pay attention to the consequences of its action.
„Had you told us from the very outset that we've got no chance here we wouldn't have stayed.“
Now we're integrated here and want to stay in Germany. We protest all forms of discriminations; we are against deportation threats and actual deportation, and we are against the social exclusion of refugees.
We have no other choice but to resist, with our self-determination for freedom of movement and a life in dignity.
Stand With Us In Our Resistance and Protest Against Deportation:
We call on the German authorities to stop the continuous violation of refugee rights and to uphold the rules of international convention for refugee protection so that refugees could live in safety and security, and in peace and harmony with our families and everyone in this country.
We call on all people of goodwill to resist the deportation culture that violates our dignity as human beings and our natural rights to freedom of movement.
We appeal to all refugee communities to endorse this statement and show solidarity with our resistance. Our self-organisation and resistance calls for unity against deportation and social exclusion of refugees in Germany. Your community statement will be appreciated.
We call on all the progressives, activists and Networks to stand up for the rights and dignity of the oppressed and refugees in Germany.
We need your solidarity! Join to Break the Deportations and Social Exclusion of refugees in Germany and anywhere else.
Stop The Deportations. Touch One Touch All
The Balkans Refugee Community on Deportation Chains in Jena / Thueringen
Jena, June 6th, 2016