Received (and gladly published) by Laboratory 53
We are a group of asylum seekers and refugees. We come from Guinea, Togo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Eritrea, Afghanistan, from all over the world. Recently, we have eyes attached to the image of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya in flames. Some call this "wind of freedom" and we who are refugees in Italy we feel called into question.
growing anger with hope. The hope that this wind of freedom comes to us, higher and far more down the Maghreb countries awakened. Higher in Italy, where it says that we all live in a democracy. What democracy means? Likely to be an ambiguous word until you understand who the people today, and what can and can not decide.
An ambiguous word such as happiness and possibly freedom. Freedom for us is not an idea, do not follow its absolute non-existent. Rather, freedom is an experience, is something you do, always in flux. For us, that we escaped from dictatorial countries it has to do with the feeling of happiness, but when the streets of Italy we look around we see people happy. Rather we see the tired faces and fearful look at us - we, foreigners.
The thing that hurts most is the fear of the Italians, the people, not the politicians of all countries vulgar and corrupt. What seems to be not so much worried about the massacre in Libya, but the threat of another invasion. We ask you: from when Italians are afraid of those who fight for freedom? Since those who took to the streets to demonstrate, even if it means getting killed, is a potential criminal, a terrorist, a monster? When is a Libyan, a Tunisian and an Egyptian revolt against dictatorship becomes an illegal immigrant?
that the wind of freedom arrivals down hopefully in sub-Saharan Africa, from which many of us come from and from which they fled after the violence and loss of any kind.
Democracy is a political concept that to be true economy calls for a just and happy society. Otherwise there is no democracy. We do not trust at all to those who tell us that there is a clash of civilizations at the base of today's conflicts and that the problem is instill religious or Geddhafi therefore ol'integralismo Islam. We are a group of Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, atheists, and the problem between us, here and in our countries of origin, religion has never been. The religious question always hides the economic and legal domain.
The title of an article on the Republic of February 24 "the massacres of civilians unacceptable Geddhafi but remains" does the same play unmasked by Frantz Fanon more than fifty years ago during the French colonialism in Algeria. The French said no right-thinking people in the face of torture and bloodshed of the French in Algeria, but fell silent homage to De Gaulle when it came to Algeria said the French and the French property throughout the land and their lives in Algeria. Fanon, and us today, we answer: massacres and torture are not a scandal, nothing exceptional for a government structurally and bloodthirsty dictator. Just pity the poor dead bodies before shaking hands with those who kill them.
Today we are witnessing a real media war of numbers: the dead are a hundred, thousand, ten thousand. We will never know the truth of Libya through communications. Communications are the speaker of the powerful. France 24 talks each day of the civil war in Ivory Coast in Italy and all is silent. In Italy, however, you pass the hot potato of new asylum seekers in Libya, Libyan oil and gas and heat the homes of Italians and Berlusconi kisses the hand Geddhafi while Geddhafi construct new camps in the desert with the money of our president. Not to see them more like us than in Europe. We die in the Libyan desert.
Meanwhile in Italy the business resumed humanitarian force: Italy host country, the way to handle the various Brotherhoods the numbers of new capital that weighs over the heads of the survivors and the survivors Libyan bend to say thank you so much humanity paid the price of gold by the Ministry of Interior.
Last question for now: the military intervention of the UN, NATO, the United States or Europe in the rest of the world. Who judges whom? Who decides the good and the bad of the other? It 's a difficult issue. Also we have hoped in recent days that the United Nations to intervene in Ivory Coast while Gbabo for the second time in the history of torture and violent rake every night our friends in Abidjan.
Still, trying to be calm, we do not believe in military intervention, even if disguised as humanitarianism and peace. International politics always intervenes to defend itself. Spent in prisons and detention camps for believing in democracy, in spite of everything we do not ask or international operations or maneuvers over us. That action, as well as the interests of the strongest, not matte sudden humanity.
RAR Group
(Asylum Seekers and Refugees Roma)
v.ferla @ cittadinanzattiva.it
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