UNHCR

War of truth

Wars start with threats and they started a war and I accepted that I needed to find a way to defend myself and to have my rights and also more, to serve the community by helping every body to see and understand the truth.

I decided I will fight with the Truth as my weapon, the words as my ammunition, and the Internet as the battlefield. I became TRUTH WARRIOR

That was my choice, war of truth on the Internet only. I'll explain now how I continued my activity on the Internet. I used many ways on there to contact people and to publish my words for all to read. I built a free website with tripod.com and geocities.com but after 2 months they were closed after a report from the UNHCR. I was ready to launch another site by saving all my files on a floppy disc, and because I didn't have my own PC I used public shops (Cyber Café) to access the net. After 2 days I had rebuilt my web sites with geocites.com.

One of the best things about the Internet is the potential ability to contact people far and wide, fast and secure. I used it to contact people individually and in groups. Since I failed to have any satisfying results with the people of UNHCR in Beirut, I started to look for emails belonging to people working with the UNHCR outside Lebanon and afterwards those who work with other organizations for refugees and also those who fight for human rights. I did search’s for emails with yahoo search engine for sites which have these words, UNHCR, refugee, asylum seeker, human rights, donation. Then I started to send them messages about my case and the situation of the refugees in Lebanon, I'll show you some of these messages afterwards.

Another way to contact lots of people is with yahoo groups. This I found is the best way to contact the maximum number of people with one message. The system of the groups work like a community of many people who share a common interest, if any member of the group send a message to the group it will be distributed to all members of the group depending on each member setting, also it shows in the group main site (Home page of the group). I used this system so as to attract as many people as possible and subscribed myself to lots of groups using many different emails accounts, I would choose one category and started to subscribed to those who have the biggest number of member to the last one which has 50 members. Human rights were my first category, like this I posted my messages in thousands of yahoo groups within 10 months. It was a huge job of work!!!

There are more reasons to use groups?

 I'm looking to have more friends all the time; No matter where they are, or who they are, as long as they are good people, and care about humanity.  I needed to talk to as many people as I can, so I can start to feel human again and exist on the map of humanity.

Also I thought the groups are a good place for discussion and to learn more about life and culture in other places. For me learning is my life, and I will continue my learning process until the end of my days. Before, in Iraq. The regime of Saddam prevented me from continuing education in college because of my ideas and beliefs, but in spite of all of this and Saddam's interference of my education, I continued to learn and began to educate myself. I taught myself English, Computer science, The Internet, Sailing and Boat Building. This knowledge I obtained all on my own (self-based system). I will continue learning until it becomes impossible to learn any longer. Knowledge is impossible to stop and my desire to learn is stronger than the strongest storm on earth. No one can stop me from my education, and learning is for all. I have many ideas I would love to share to the groups, and I felt this is the best way to do that.

One of my targets was to improve the refugee’s situation in the world by improving the procedures of UNHCR, and the best way to do that is by discussing these procedures publicly and again the groups are the best place to do that.  I tried to get the people of the UNHCR to have a public discussion with me one of the group’s but they refused, many of those who work in UNHCR-Beirut office told me that they don't use the Internet there. But I continued posting my message in hundreds of yahoo groups asking people around the world to help us refugees by sending messages to UNHCR and asking them about our problem. Many of my friends did that but without any answer from the UNHCR.

Those who work for the UNHCR worldwide ignored thousands of my messages and hundreds of my friends' messages!!! I created many groups and I subscribed many Emails accounts belonging to those who worked for UNHCR, unfortunately, I didn't get any positive reply from the UNHCR Just one message from Stephan Imberton Officer in Charge of Information Systems based at the High Commission for Refugees, United Nations, Geneva. Sent to some one who works as ISP in Lebanon to complain about me and threaten him, that ISP is Net house <nethouse@dm.net.lb> who forwarded that message to me. It's hard to imagine that those who are working for UNHCR are afraid to send me a message themselves, but they are ready to send messages to report me to official people, services like Yahoo, Tripod and my IPS in Lebanon!!!

On 10/30/2002 at 11:02 AM Email Support <EMAILSUP@unhcr.ch> wrote:

>Bonjour,
>
>Nous avons fait l'objet de plusieurs attaques SPAM repetees provenant
>d'une adresse identifiee comme faisant sans aucun doute possible partie de
>votre service:  193.227.168.149.
>
>Cette personne a d'une part envoye plusieurs  message calomnieux que vous
>trouverez des exemples joints et d'autre part envoye une serie de
>plusieurs milliers de mesages a travers Yahoo groups.
>
>Je vous prie de bien vouloir prendre action dans les plus bref delais pour
>faire cesser ces attaques repetees provenant de votre service.
>
>Dans le cas contraire je me verai contraint de vous signaler aupres des
>autres organes des Nations Unies dont nous sommes agence afin de faire
>immediatement et definitivement  suspendre la livraison de tout message
>provenant de vos services.
>
>Sinceres salutations
>
>
>Stephane Imberton
>
>Officier Charge des Systemes d'Information
>Haut Commissariat pour les Refugies
>Nations Unies, Geneve.

Translation Results: With AltaVista translator engine

Hello, We were the subject of several repeated attacks Spam coming from an address identifiee like forming without any possible doubt part of your service: 193.227.168.149. This person has on the one hand envoye several message libelous which you will find of the joined examples and on the other hand envoye a series of several thousands of mesages has through Yahoo groups. Please agree to take action within the shortest deadlines to put an end to these repeated attacks coming from your service. In the contrary case I will verai myself constrained to announce you aupres other bodies of the United Nations of which we are agency in order to make immediately and definitively to suspend the delivery of any message coming from your services. Sincere greetings Stephane Imberton Officer Charges of the Information systems Office of the High Commission for Refugies the United Nations, Geneva.

That was WAR OF TRUTH. In the war you risk your life, get injuries and maybe you will loose time and money, well all that happened with me because of the UNHCR. I’m happy with every thing that happened because I proved to myself that I’m a man, a human being able to fight for his rights and belief’s. I know that we can face injustice in life and influence change in bad systems like the one in the UNHCR. I have proved that we, the so called voiceless, helpless, humans (Refugees) are able to make our voice heard everywhere. I’m happy and proud I made a difference and I will continue this way for the rest of my life.

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