Thursday, April 14, 2011

Enough of collusion with the Gaddafi regime!

Muammar Gaddafi's will to crush the insurgency militarily challenging his power can make us forget that the EU has made him one of its main partners on containment of immigration, with lots agreements, financial assistance and military-police cooperation. However, this policy is not only futile antimigratory, and contrary to the best interests of European countries, if we are to believe demographers and economists.

It undermines democracy and civil liberties being detrimental to the respect of human rights. It is also criminal in the strict sense, since it causes the death of thousands of men, as recently confirmed the drowning of 150 refugees from Libya, on the night of April 5 to 6. European leaders are responsible for the consequences of their actions on the subject, and how they outsource their application to the Maghreb states.

The film by Andrea Segre Dagmawi Yimer and Riccardo Biadene Like a Man on Earth (2008), establishes the extent of the complicity of the government of Silvio Berlusconi with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi and the shameless exploitation by officials Libya, of the pension of the fight against migrants at the cost of abuse, torture, rape and murder in the absolute indifference of Frontex and the comfort that bureaucratic provide supplies of Italian material.

An incident has further substantiated the seriousness of this compromise of Rome with Tripoli, but also mithridatization of European public opinion. On 12 September 2010, a star shot a Libyan Italian fishing boat, thinking they were dealing with illegal migrants. Chorus of protests in the country.

Because the Libyan army had fired on suspected undocumented (and defense)? You're not at all. Because the targets of the shooting were not those that believed the shooters, but brave Italians, and that, moreover, they had been sniping for a boat that their government had handed over to Tripoli as part of cooperation agreements in the fight against illegal immigration.

The scandal was the flash, not about shooting himself and the involvement of Italian authorities trivialized in the transgression of the Charter of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights , maritime law and, I suppose, of the Italian law itself. Damning detail: Italian instructors were on board the Coast Guard, which demonstrated the enormity of the criminal collusion of Rome with Tripoli.

Berlusconi's excesses, they will say. Except that the EU is involved in this policy, like France, and that this latter practice the same kind of delegations with Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. In October 2010, Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs, and his colleague in charge of the European neighborhood, Stefan Fule, reported their visit to Tripoli a "cooperation agenda" covering "the roots of immigration, surveillance borders and the fight against trafficking in human beings, "and with" concrete measures for a system of border surveillance "and" a dialogue on refugees.

" Given the refusal of the Libyan government, the agreement did not refer to the Geneva Convention of 1951 United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, basic text on the right of asylum and protection of these rights, but the convention of the organization of the African Union as of 1969 on refugees in Africa, which Libya has signed ...

and it does not. In the political racket goldsmith and human trafficking, Colonel Qaddafi asked 5 billion euros per year for "permanently stop" illegal immigration. The Commission promised him 50 million over two years. And refraining from any reference to the Geneva Convention of 1951, it implicitly acknowledged that Africans do not belong to humanity, but to the region.

Today, the aggressiveness with which Italy and France deport migrants from Libya and Tunisia, while some of them are refugees entitled to international protection, shows that our leaders are embarrassed either by their past cooperation with Moammar Gadhafi, even though they bombard or the risk they take to destabilize the democratic experience in Tunisia.

They even say that our planes avoid blame the Libyan fleet to not break the working instrument antimigratory! My wish is simple: I want to live long enough to bring before the International Criminal Court presidents, ministers first or second, military officials and police, senior Commission officials, leaders and commanders of airlines the directors of private security companies who under the guise too well known in Europe of the popular will, the hierarchical principle, requisitions administrative and contract compliance, day after day emancipated from that of international law, causing death or suffering of thousands of their fellows.

Our politicians have declared war on immigration and terrorism, but they are freed from the law of war. They pay the price one day, God willing. Jean-François Bayart, research director at CNRS Article published in the edition of 14.04.11

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