Amsterdam: Save the lives of the kurdish hungerstrikers!

Urgent call for action!
Please sign this solidarity-statement and send it to the responsible
authorities!
SAMI, MAJID, AZAD, HOSSEIN AND NIHAD ARE IN HUNGERSTRIKE SINCE FEBRUARI 5TH THEIR LIFE IS IN DANGER!
Sami, Maji, Azad, Hossein and Nihad are five Kurdish refugees. They went in hungerstrike two months ago because the Dutch governement has
declared Northern-Iraq a safe place and wants to deport 9000 Kurds.
Thousands of Kurdish will soon end up in a very bad situation. They will
be forced to leave the asylumseeker-centres will be denied social
security. Return to Iraq however is impossible.
The treatment of Kurdish refugees by the Dutch governement through the
years, can be characterized by two key-words: criminalize and
illegalize. Kurdish refugees always were treated as "illegal immigrants"
who left their country because of economic reasons. On the highest
European level anti-migration-programs were constructed. Even the
cooperation with torture-state Turkey, responsible for ethnic cleansing
and the dislocation of millions of Kurds was no problem at all.
High-ranked European police-officers worked together with Necati
Bilican, former governor of Turkish-Kurdistan and responsible for tens
of killed and disappeared prisoners and hundreds tortured prisoners. Im making te anti-migration-policy works the European Union chooses these
criminals as allies and talks with them about the establishment of
detention-centres for thousands of Kurdish refugees.
The new magic word is "internal flight alternative". However it's an
"alternative" seriously questioned even by the UNHCR (Berlin january
2001). Ignored is the fact that already hundreds of thousands refugees
are staying in Northern Iraq, from Central Iraq, Iran and Turkey, who =
live their under very bad conditions. The region is in a state of civil
war and recently 10.000 Turkish soldiers invaded the area. Northern Iraq
is one of the most unsafest and unsteady places on earth. Precisely on
that spot the EU wants to establish a reservation for thousands of
Kurdish refugees.
The five hungerstrikers began their action as an ultimate attempt to
call attention to their situation and that of thousands partners in
distress. From the beginning they were completely ignored, by the media,
politicians, responsible authorities, their lawyers and doctors. This
hushing up and concealment of the situation of Kurdish refugees led to
an attempt of one of the hungerstrikers to burn himself and a violent
escalation of a demonstration against the deportation of Kurdish
refugees, The Hague march 29th.
The situation of the hungerstrikers is very critical. To compare: the
IRA-hungerstrikers in the eighties died between the 45th and 61st day.
The five lost tens of kilogrammes weight, they have blood in their
urine, some of them regularly lose consciousness, all of them suffer
dizziness and muscle-weakness. Something must move immediately!
Otherwise the hungerstrikers will not survive it.
The forced departure out of the asylumseeker-centres and the deportation to Northern Iraq is a serious violation of human rights!
To let the hungerstrikers die is murder!
Therefore the undersigned demand:
Immediate recognition as refugee of all Kurds!
Signature:
Name:
Organization:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Address this solidarity-statement to:
Ministerie van justitie, t.a.v. staatssecretaris E. Kalsbeek, fax
31-70-370 79 00

Staatssecretaris E. Kalsbeek, Tintlaan 83, 2719 AM, Zoetermeer,
Nederland

IND, t.a.v. hoofddirecteur H. Schoof, fax Rijswijk 31-70-370 34 02,
fax Den Haag 31-70-370 31 34,=20

E-Mail:  voorlichting@ind.minjus.nl

COA, fax 31-70-307 15 19

We ask you to send copies to

 info@defabel.nl

fax, 31-7-5134 907

De Fabel van de Illegaal, Koppenhinksteeg 2, 2312 HX, Leiden, Nederland

Solidarity-statements to the hungerstrikers and protest-statements to the asylumseekers-centres to:

AZC Waddinxveen, fax 31-182 - 641 630,
Zuidelijke Rondweg 225, 2742 HZ, Waddinxveen, Nederland,
t.a.v. Sami Abderrachman Ismail, Haji Hossein Ali, Hossein Majid
Mohammed
Amin en Nihad Jousef Ali

AZC Alphen A/d Rijn, fax 31-172 - 240 454,
Eikenlaan 46, 2404 BR, Alphen a/d Rijn, Nederland,
t.a.v. Azad Mohammad Hazar

De Fabel van de Illegaal
Internationalistisch Comitee