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Lie,
lie and lie until people will believe you!
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what a lie from one man has such high responsibility
in UNHCR! “Lebanon
didn’t sign the 51 UN Convention” that is the
magic spell that the UNHCR using to turn the entire
critic, compliments and questions about refugees'
situation away from them! What else the liars could
speak!
Notice
please that he made that statement in front the
reporters!
It's true Lebanon didn't sign the convention, but that is not the reason for our problems. He and the others at the UNHCR used that as if it were the only reason for our problems and that is just not the truth. I'll show you in the next few pages the evidence and the truth!
Signing the convention or not is not the problem here.
With
my campaigns I invited the people of UNHCR to public
debates about refuges cases, but they refused,
that’s because they know well that they’re just
liars and I’ll expose them publicly. We’re the
refugees who are living in Lebanon know the
truth. It’s now the time for you all to know the
truth.
All
the time the UNHCR blamed the government of Lebanon
for our bad situation because “Lebanon didn’t
sign the UN 51 Convention” so let me tell you
what the UN51 convention is and what is the truth. I
have spoken much about the convention in my book [THE
TRUTH WARRIOR] here I’ll just say a little of what I
didn’t mentioned there.
In the official UN page about Lebanon and under this title:
'Situation of Refugees in
Lebanon' they wrote: "Lebanon is neither party to the 1951 UN Convention nor to the 1967
Protocol." It's the first sentence about our situation as refugees living in Lebanon. So it's an important point in the subject. That sentence will stay in your mind
what ever you'll read afterwards, and it will block further investigation. The people at the UNHCR made it clear that
sign or not sign the UN51 convention makes a big difference!
And it's the entire problem!
When the truth is completely different. I'll show you with evidences and proofs how much they have misled us.
From
the statement of Mr.
Aljmal the Regional Representative.
The newspaper wrote his name in Arabic as ['Aljmal'],
that's his family name. He is Italian from Egyptian
origin. His formal name (Italian name) is MUSTAPHA
DJEMALI, his official position in UNHCR is the
'Director of the Regional Bureau for Central Asia,
South- West Asia, North Africa and the Middle East,
UNHCR. If you like to know more about him you can
google for his name. I'll use his Arabic family name
as it written in the newspaper 'Aljmal'. He is
responsible for life of millions of refugees in 2
continents from Afghanistan to Mauritania, I'll late
you to count the countries that fall under his
Authority!
From
his statement we understand that our problems as
refugees in Lebanon are as a result of the refusal of
the Lebanese government to sign the UN51 convention!
Not for anything else. And since Lebanon is not a
signatory state [Contracting States,
as I read it in the convention] and since it didn’t
sign the convention so Lebanon doesn’t have “legislations
and an official department to deal with refugees
matters”!
But he didn’t explain how these missing legislations
and official departments help in solving our problems
and improving our bad situation!
I
can't believe that one who is responsible for lives of
thousands of humans [if not millions] could speak like
this. According to his logic, all our problems are
because of the Lebanese government and for the missing
legislation and official department [or institute].
That superior representative for the UNHCR wants the
Lebanese to sign the convention and to issues laws and
to create some department in the government
[institute] to solve our problems!!! What a logic!!!
It's
clear that he wants the government of Lebanon to sign
the UN51 convention and to make legislation and an
official department to look after refugee's matters. I
paused for long time at that sentence in his statement
when I read it in the Arabic newspaper; I thought much
about the translation of these words 'look after'.
These 2 words match the words that he used in Arabic
'look after' and 'deal with'. Finally I decided to use
look after.
According
for my simple understanding for the English ‘look
after’ means care about something, help something,
when your son get sick “your wife will tell you to
‘look after’ your son he is sick” that means she
may want you to take him for the hospital for example,
not to go to see him and then you return to watch the
TV. I think even ‘deal with’ has the same meaning.
Any
one reading his statement will think that the problem
is in hands of the government of Lebanon and what we
all need is that Lebanon must sign the UN51 convention
and start to look after (or deal with) our problems.
Everything is waiting for that! He didn’t mention
any thing about UNHCR being part of the problem or
what the role of the UNHCR is in solving our problem.
He
also said that he will try to make an agreement to
establish a formal office for the UNHCR in Lebanon.
Poor UNHCR, what a pity they don’t even have a
'formal office'! They're working in the street or in a
hotel or maybe each employee working from his house!
No I think they're secret agents working in unknown
places!!!
Poor
UNHCR and poor refugees, Lebanon didn’t sign the
convention so there is no office for UNHCR or
legislations and official department to look after
refugee’s matters. It’s easy to understand that
Mr. Aljamal wanted Lebanon to sign the convention and
solve our problems! And since he is the regional
representative so his logic must to apply to all the
governments in the world, notice that he is speaking
of the UNHCR and the UN51 convention. So now the
problem of the refugees of Lebanon is in hand of the
government of Lebanon and the refugees in other
countries are in hand of the governments where
they’re living now!!!
Simply
he wants all the governments to sign the convention
and work alone to help and solve the problems of the
refugees on their territories! For example, he wants
the poor governments in Africa like: Chad, Zimbabwe,
and Tanzania. Etc. To sign the convention and to solve
the problems of the refugees! So what will the UNHCR
and the community do after that?!
What
funny logic! All the countries do the work and the
UNHCR collect the money from the donors! What will the
staff of the UNHCR do after this in their offices?
What a pity! I feel pain reading his statement and to
see him and others at UNHCR working hard to hide the
truth. My friends this is the truth;
The
UN51 convention was built on one thing and it's the
core of the work for the UNHCR and all the governments
in the world regarding the refugee crisis, and that is
'COOPERATION'
yes cooperation, and I hope Mr. Aljamal knows what
cooperation means! Did
he mention any thing about 'cooperation' in his
statement?
Before
creating the UNHCR and writing the convention, all the
world governments found that it was not possible for
any government in the world to solve the problem of
the refugees alone. Actually the problem of refugees
occurs when the people have already left their own
country to seek refuge and shelter in another country,
logically that means involving of 2 countries in the
problem. Sometimes to solve the problem of the
refugees; we need move the refugees to a third
country.
Mostly
wars and conflicts produce refugees, and sometimes the
problems of the refugees create conflicts in the place
that they have fled to, therefore sometimes
influencing international peace.
Regarding
these 2 important points, all the governments found
that they needed to create a tool to solve these
problems and to create some kind of cooperation
between all the countries. That tool was the UN51
convention.
The
convention depended 100% on the cooperation between
all the countries in the world plus the NGOs and the
individual volunteers. It never depended on solo work
done by any government alone. Therefore and since
there are more than one party involved in that
problem, the UN51 convention created the UNHCR as a
coordinator for all the efforts targeting the solution
of refugees problems in international cooperation, to
solve it as an international problem and not just
internal problems in each individual country.
If
we follow the logic of Mr. Aljmal, we'll have special
tools, procedures and policies to deal with the
refugees in each country, maybe one country will find
that it's better to deport the refugees out, or
another country will use the refugees in wars and
conflicts [like in Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Syria and
Lebanon] and that will make the problem look like an
internal problem and no countries in the world like
that even Lebanon. I don't think that there is a
ministry for refugees in any country. According to my
studies, all the matters of refugees in all countries
is dealt with by the immigration departments [even in
the USA] so why does the UNHCR want Lebanon to have a
special institute to deal with problem of the refugees
there, when there is an immigration department?! In
simple words, governments don't need to sign the
convention to help the refugees, but it does need more
global
cooperation.
As
I’m a refugee and I’m an activist for human
rights, especially for refugees, I have done many
researches about refugees and I didn’t find that any
country in the world has a ministry for refugees!
Or even a specific department to deal with them. What
I found is that all the governments consider the
problems of refugees as a problem of immigrants, the
immigration departments [even in USA] in each country
deal with the refugees. That fact apply to all
countries whether it a signatory state [Contracting
States] on
the convention or not. My question for Mister Aljmal;
could you please give us an example of these
legislations and official departments which are
missing in Lebanon, and exist somewhere else to deal
with refugees?
Here
are small examples about that point I found on the net:
“The
only reference to states’ responsibilities in
admitting refugees appears in the drafters’ Final
Act. They recommended “that Governments continue to
receive refugees in their territories and… act in concert
in a true spirit of international cooperation in
order that these refugees may find asylum and the
possibility of resettlement.”
“While the Convention is predicated on international
cooperation and recognizes the need to share
equitably the burdens and responsibilities of
protecting refugees, it gives no prescription on
how to do so. Burden-sharing has become one of the
most contentious issues among receiving countries, one
that involves not just people and money but
competition for food, medical services, jobs, housing
and the environment. Left unresolved, the issue could
threaten the very existence of the international
refugee protection regime.”
If
you read the convention [like I did] you’ll find
that the convention just puts a unified definition for
the term of ‘REFUGEE’ and the proper way to deal
with the refugees under unified standards and procedures to
solve the problems of each refugee everywhere, nothing
is specific in the convention.
Mr.
Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees at the Informal Meeting of the European Union
Ministers for Justice and Ministers for Home Affairs (Stockholm,
8 February 2001)
“People
fleeing across borders to escape persecution and
violence are a sad phenomenon of our world. They
represent a common responsibility not only for the
European Union Member States, but also for all Members
of the United Nations. UNHCR is a uniquely mandated
international organization charged with protecting and
finding solutions for refugees – people who cannot
turn to their own government for protection. My
message is that UNHCR is your essential multilateral
partner in meeting the governance challenge posed by
the world’s refugees.
Can we do better together? Yes. As partners, we can be
more strategic and comprehensive in our approach.
Where a State fails and we face a humanitarian crisis,
an emergency response will be necessary. But let us
also explore the possibilities for meaningful
preventive action in countries of origin and for a
serious commitment to building the capacity of refugee
hosting countries.”
Here
is another example from another speech:
High
Commissioner's message for World Refugee Day 2003
Date Posted: 06/16/2003:
"That
is one reason why I, as UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, am working so hard to find solutions for the
nearly 20 million people of concern to my office –
about 35 percent of them youngsters between the ages
of 12 and 24. These solutions include repatriation,
integration in countries of first asylum or
resettlement to third countries. Achieving such
solutions requires the co-operation of the entire
international community – rich and poor, North and
South, developed and developing."
I
hope Mr. Aljamal knows what his boss meant by
co-operation! Notice please that Mr. Lubbers didn’t
mentioned the
signatory states in his speech, so where are they?
I
found that the speech from Mr. Lubbers is more
reasonable and logical, because he emphasized the
element of cooperation and he considers the UNHCR as
the best tool to solve the problem not the solo work
of each country alone. He didn’t speak that each
country must work to solve the problem. He asked for
more cooperation.
One
thing more I found in the convention that it’s based
on the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
which Lebanon had agreed to, and also Lebanon
is a member in the executive UNHCR committee, so to
sign or not to sign the UN51 convention should not
make any difference.
If
Mr. Aljamal tried to show that the situation of the
refugees and asylum seekers is better in Contracting
States [countries who singed the convention] than in
non Contracting States, I tell him sorry Sir you’re
wrong! Here are some examples about the situation in
some Contracting States:
  Australia
is one of the Contracting States. And we’re all know
what the situation is there for refugees and asylum
seekers. These pictures are from the mandatory
detentions in Australia. Those people are Iraqi asylum
seekers. I just like to ask Mr. Aljmal about his
opinion and also the UNHCR about these mandatory detentions where the
asylum-seekers spent years there?
Refugees
want future made clearer
Protest
against Australia's temporary visa policy for refugees
What
is funny about the convention is that Iraq was among
the founders of the convention: “When
delegates from 26 countries as diverse as the United
States, Israel and Iraq gathered in the elegant Swiss
city of Geneva in 1951, they had some unfinished
business to attend to.”
I
like to tell you about another example, but from
Greece this time. Most of the refugees who have tried
to enter Europe are traveling overland through
Turkey-Greece or Turkey -Bulgaria. I met tens of
refugees who tried to reach Athena by land or even by
sea and failed, unable to seek asylum at the UNHCR
office in Athena due to the long distance from the
borders and due to the strict security procedures on
that long way from the borders. It was easy for the
refugees to pass the borders but it was very hard to
get through to Athena. Any one arrested on the way
from the borders will be deported directly without any
chance to submit an application for refugee’s statue
in the office of the UNHCR.
I contacted the office and I asked them whether
they have a branch in Slavonic [the first city near
the Turkish border] the answer was: “we have only
one office and that is in Athena”. I tried much to
figure how it would be possible for me to pass that
way but unfortunately it was hard!
Greece
is a Contracting State, and according to the
convention, Greece must respect the right of
asylum-seekers to try and reach the office of UNHCR in
Athena to seek asylum. But Greece doesn’t respect
that right, so what does Mr. Aljmal thinks about
Greece?! On the contrary, Lebanon respects the right
of any one to seek asylum in the office of UNHCR in
Beirut.
The
last point about that matter and a big surprise is
about the USA. America like Lebanon didn’t sign on
the 51UN convention but only the protocol, exactly
like Lebanon. America is the biggest financial
contributor to the UNHCR and it has the biggest
resettlement program for refuges. Could Mr. Aljmal
claim that our problems are also because USA didn’t
sign the convention?
Since
I proved that our problems as refugees in Lebanon
aren't because the Lebanon didn't sign the UN51
convention. So what is the reason for our problems?
Please be patient I’ll tell you in next pages
everything about what the UNHCR tried to hide for
years!!! I’ll tell you the answer and show you the
truth with evidences and numbers.
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