callout: european day of action for migrant rights 29th october
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/10/326065.pdf
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The collective attempts by more than four thousand migrants to cross the
borders between Africa and Europe have shown the brutality of the European
border regime. In the last two weeks ten people were shot dead by border
police. Since then, Moroccan authorities have rounded up and “deported”
more than 2,500 people, and abandoned them without food and water in the
Sahara Desert. More than 36 people have died there so far.
The news of the past two weeks shows only a small part of the brutality at
Europe’s borders, where hundreds of migrants drown every year crossing the
Straights of Gibralter, suffocate in trucks, or are blown up by landmines
in the fields between Greece and Turkey.
The reaction of the Spanish Government and the European Comission is
military reinforcement of the borders and externalising the “management”
of migrants. European colonialism and economic policies created the
sitations that are forcing people to flee. Now, being pushed by the German
government and others, refugees are being made invisible to Europe; caught
way before the borders and held in “transit” prisons far away. Third
countries, such as Morocco are made to handle the situation in exchange
for economic aid. The EU has given 40 million Euro to Morocco to build up
border defences. The Moroccan government uses these deals to
systematically violate human rights, torturing, deporting and murdering
migrants.
Across Europe groups are organising acts to reject this brutality at the
borders. We are calling for a coordinated day of action on 29th October
2005.
For Freedom of Movement
No one is illegal!
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