79.5 million people worldwide are on the run. Of these, 45.7 million are internally displaced, 6.6 million have fled Syria, and 5.6 million are Palestinian refugees. Germany has taken in 1.1 million refugees. At the end of 2019, Germany took in 309,262 refugees, 60,000 fewer than in 2018 (these are the UN figures as of the end of 2019).
42,500 refugees live on the islands of Lesbos, Samos, Kos, Leros and Chios - the capacity is actually around 6000 places.
EU policy prevents these people from applying for asylum and thus keeps them prisoner in the camps there under inhuman conditions for longer than necessary. People suffer and die because of this policy!
Erik Marquardt is the refugee policy spokesman for Bündnis90 / Die Grünen in the European Parliament.
He was on Lesbos in March 2020 and has made serious allegations against this practice by the EU Comission.
Escape is not a crime !!! as agreed in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris. According to Article 14, everyone has the right to seek asylum in another country. Unfortunately, European politics is different. There is practically no legal way to escape from war zones to safe countries such as Europe.All European aid organizations can only officially help once the people have arrived in Europe and have applied for asylum. Only when they are registered do the people officially receive legal residence. Until then, they are considered illegal stateless refugees contrary to their rights. Even the existing obligation to sea rescue, which is an international law, is tried to criminalize. German asylum law has also been continuously tightened in recent years. It is particularly serious that people fleeing armed conflict, torture or the death penalty (those with subsidiary protection) no longer have the right to bring their families to Germany.
That is why we demand the immediate evacuation of the
refugees on the Greek islands!
https://www.amnesty.de/mitmachen/petition/jetzt-menschen-aus-den-lagern-griechenland-evakuieren https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/evakuierung-der-eu-fluechtlingslager-in-griechenland-aufgrund-corona-virus
The well-known Swiss sociologist, Jean Ziegler, is the Vice-President of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council in May 2019. He visited the EU refugee camp Moria on Lesbos and also describes harrowing individual cases. His book, published in 2020, bears witness to the moral decline that Europe is heading towards,and is an urgent appeal to the responsible politicians in Brussels and to civil society, to put an end to the practice of "push-back" and the inhuman reality of hotspots -because they are the
SHAME OF EUROPE!
Enough is said and written, let's ACT too.
If everyone helps only one, many are helped.
The individual case counts.
In addition to Lesvos and the refugee camp Moria which is burned, known from the press, there are other Greek islands where, in total darkness, inexpressible suffering takes place next to the public light. It is unimaginable that this could happen in the middle of Europe.
The children of our best friend Musa's family have to endure summer and winter in the vineyards with thousands of other refugees on Samos in self-made tents made of jute.
The children - a little son, he is 2 and a half years old and a little daughter, she is 4 years old - his sister and her husband have become seriously ill. The boy does not sleep because he has got asthma because of the wetness and the cold and mainly suffers from shortness of breath at night. The daughter has had asthma since she was born and vomits almost every day because she cannot stand the food. They get their water from a nearby spring and at night they collect food in the wider area from garbage in supermarkets or grocery stores. Shame is a daily companion and the fear of being assaulted and raped at night never lets the family rest. Children are raped too!
The only salvation for the small family would be a quick transfer to mainland Greece. Networks and people are waiting there who can provide medical care for the refugees. In contrast to Samos, the mainland is like paradise.
The family urgently needs a lawyer to get permission to leave Samos due to the serious illness of the children. A matter of form. Of course, they don't have the money to pay the lawyer for legal fees.
Therefore we would like to help our dear friend Musa and his family with this fundraising campaign. Musa himself has come to Germany from Syria alone with his younger brother since 2015. He is a lawyer and is currently doing a postgraduate degree in law in order to be able to do more for peace and justice, not least in his home country Syria, after graduating. He is already active in his network, but the need is great and there is a lack of money everywhere.
The region in eastern Syria and the home village of Musa were razed to the ground, so to speak. Since the region belongs to the rebel areas, the Syrian army first attacked the villages and towns there, which were then captured by IS. A cousin was shot. Musa and his brother and two friends were captured. They were tortured and malnourished. Musa was ransomed by their father after 5 months, his brother after 9 months for the equivalent of 30,000 euros. One friend was released after 2 years in prison, the other died after 3 years inside the walls.
After Musa and his brother were miraculously released, the family decided to leave their beloved homeland together. They have been on the run for 7 years. From one tent camp, from one refugee shelter to the other. There is no health or social insurance. The parents with a son and his family in Turkey, two brothers with families on the Greek mainland, a sister with a family now also in Germany, their child is also seriously ill and is now finally in the hospital and is slowly recovering from a severe rheumatic illness.
The family has been separated for 7 years and suffers from war traumas, from fear of loss and abandonment, from loneliness, the father has meanwhile become blind due to an injury of a bomb attack, his mother has a severe depression. Musa sends money every month for everything the parents need in terms of medicine and food. For 7 years they have not been able to celebrate family celebrations or support each other. Everyone is hoping for Musa, the eldest son, who takes all the responsibility and breaks down under it again and again.
Nevertheless, he never gives up and fights his way through. We think Musa deserves support! We want to help him, to bring his sister and her family to mainland Greece and for that we need YOU! With a donation of
€ 2,500 we can support Musa and his family together to pay the laywer for legal fees to get closer to a more dignified life. A life without hunger, cold and fear ... We hope to be able to help him with our fundraising campaign and above all to save his little niece and nephew.
Therefore I ask for solidarity for a family on Samos that we can support with our donation.
Solidarity campaign DE96 6905 0001 0026 4905 57 / All for All - One for One
Address: Gisela Trometer / Brucknerstraße 11 / 88046 Friedrichshafen Phone: 0177/6036798
Update: With our solidarity and our donation the family could reach the
Greece Mainland on April 15th of 2021.
Thanks to God and to All of Us for our help!
