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UN 51 Convention, gone with the wind

My friends,
On this site you will see some pictures of the UNHCR office in Beirut, and you will read some words about the situation of some of the refugees in Lebanon.

In this picture you can see: The front of the office with a woman from the staff of UNHCR at the door and you can see the fence of the office that separates the refugees (Out side) And the UNHCR.

The procedure is like this: If any one has to do any business with UNHCR he must come and stand in front of the office (On the pavement of the street), and he can speak with the woman member of staff from the UNHCR and if she finds out that he needs to go inside to do some thing she will tell him to pass through the gate. If she does not, he will leave, for example if he has only a simple question she will answer him, this is the new procedure at UNHCR in Beirut.
Until now it’s OK and like I explained in my message: Some of my victories.
This was my second victory and it’s good because we have direct contact with UNHCR not like before when we have only Hassan the Lebanese policeman.

I’m happy with that as a way of communicating with the inside of the office, but the problem is, it is hard for people (Refugees and asylum seekers) To stand in the street, waiting all day with no proper protection from the sun in the summer, and rain in the winter. There needs to be shelter made available.
There isn’t enough space for the people to reach the fence where we speak to UNCHR staff, because this place is for cars not for people. Some times it’s hard for me to pass between the cars and I’m skinny. Some times there are more than 100 people in an area of 3 square meters that is just a strip between the fence and the cars.
This situation is very risky for children because its directly in the street and they need to spend hours there and you know that children move around a lot, it is possible there could be and accident (I hope not).  Also it is not suitable for old people, as there is nowhere to rest.

As well my friends I think this will reduce respect for refugees in the area. What do you think a person would think about the refugees, seeing scenes like this.

So my friends in the name of all the refugees and asylum seekers in Lebanon, I ask you to contact the UNHCR to open the door of the garage and let the people go inside the garage where there is a place with seats, where the refugees and asylum seekers used to wait before.

The reason for closing the door of the garage is to prevent the refugees from using this garage to do any kind of protesting for our cases, and to show our problems. This garage is for cars, but it’s also the place where the people used to wait if they had to do some thing with the UNHCR.  We used it also as a place for our activities like meetings or demonstrations and  last time it was used for a hunger strike and sit in protest.

All these activities were peaceful without any kind of violence and we took advantage of the immunity of the office because the UNHCR has diplomatic immunity like any embassy in the world. So the police can do nothing to us inside the garage and it is safe if we want do some kind of protest.
But now if any one of the UNHCR staff points his finger at any refugee who is thinking of doing any kind of protest (this happened with me personally) there is a big risk of being arrested by the police, because it is out side the building and not on the UNHCR premises.

Those people in the pictures above this paragraph are dangerous for UNHCR!!! Look by your own eyes my friends in these pictures, and what you will see: Children, poor people don’t have money even for good shoes sitting on the ground with no sign for any intend to act violently! People stop eating (Hunger strike) sleeping on the ground with need for medical attention! Who on earth think they are dangerous so he must close the door in their faces!!! Except the UNHCR in Beirut.

I hope you can agree with me on this point: All refugees have the right to express their opinions inside the UNHCR office since they do this with peaceful ways according to all concepts of human rights. And if we don’t have the right to do this in the house of the refugees where else do we have this right? In jails or in our graves?!!!

So according to my understanding of our rights as human beings (If UNHCR will consider us as a humans) we demand to have the right of access to the garage of UNHCR (The garage only not the office) and to have the right to use it for all kinds of expressions, like speaking or peaceful protest like we did there before for years.

We are the refugees and asylum seekers in Lebanon thank every human being will support us with our struggle against the UNHCR in Lebanon so we can have all our rights as human beings according to the 51 UN convention.

We are waiting to see if all the talk in the world about the respect of human rights, dignity and democracy are true, or is it some thing, which has gone with the wind. If you like to help the refugees and asylum seekers in Lebanon, please contact all these E-mails and try to collect some happiness at your judgment day.

ecu@un.org,inquiries@un.org,Hqpr00@Unhcr.Ch,yves.de.san@undp.org.lb,registry@undp.org.lb,lebbe@unhcr.ch,djemalim@unhcr.ch

You can copy all these E-mails and past in one message, or just click on.

For this I call all the people in the world who claim that they work with many organizations to help the refugees, and they collect money from donors with our name and our pain.

Wedon’t ask for your money, so take the money for you but just send some messages at least you will be able to speak for the donors that you helped some refugees and asylum seeker in Lebanon and this will coast you nothing!!!

THE TRUTH WARRIOR

OSAM ALTAEE
www.unhcr.us 

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