2002/08/30

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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.

 

©2002 جريدة السفير

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