The
10th day for the Iraqi refugees hunger strike:
Silence, closed
doors and mortal bodies.
D.H

Nobody
around, it's complete stillness, bodies of the Iraqi refugees whom
carried out a sit-in since 10 days and in a hunger strike since 4
days, have collapsed on pillows of sponge. Alone, exactly like
they where in their prisons, the only difference is their
<<roof>> it's open and they can write what they want
of mottos and quotes on the walls, they have their own pens and
paper and maybe they're only.. prisoners of << the UNITED
NATIONS>> 15*, that's what they prefer to be called, when they
came to sit-in, in front of this office for the refugees [UNHCR]
in Almatihff, they were hoping a lot, but the doors were locked on
them early, and the bet on decreasing them gradually, to finish
them off.
3
days ago, one of them had been taken to the hospital, and before
yesterday another 2 of them had been taken, there were only 15
hunger strikers, who go out, never will return back, <<the
visit finish>> telling to whom standstill for more than 5
minutes behind the iron door to speak with the strikers.
After
10 days, everyone washed
his hands of the responsibility even the director of the office
whom the strikers demanded to refer him for investigation and even
the United nations nor the minister of justice Samir Aljiser [in
Lebanon at that time] who told <<assafir>> that
<<he didn't have any thing to say>>, and even the
American embassy of USA whom its government promised the strikers
with resettlement in USA for more than a year now, and not the
general security who threatened with its procedures the refugees
who have been put into one basket <<clandestinely
entry>> [illegal residency in Lebanon].
10
days of prefect silence in front of the United Nation office.
Alone they are still there, decreasing, therefore they pleaded in
their new declaration yesterday that the government, the
parliament [in Lebanon] and all of the organizations and the
distinguished political and religious personalities in Lebanon and
all the Arabic communities around the world.. to support them. |