Quelle: DW
In der Ägäis ist wieder ein Flüchtlingsboot gekentert. Vor einer kleinen griechischen Insel finden die Rettungsmannschaften immer mehr Leichen, darunter zahlreiche Kinder.
Vor der griechischen Insel Farmakonisi hat sich eine weitere Flüchtlingstragödie ereignet. Nach dem Kentern eines Flüchtlingsboots hat die Küstenwache mindestens 34 Leichen entdeckt.
Weiterlesen »Quelle: adnkronos
C’è anche una donna nigeriana che ha perso due figli piccoli e un fratello tra i migranti superstiti sbarcati ieri sera al molo Favaloro di Lampedusa. La donna fa parte del gruppo di rifugiati che si trovavano a bordo del gommone che ieri mattina, nel Canale di Sicilia, si è sgonfiato fra le onde del mare forza 4. Sono venti le persone cadute in acqua. I 107 migranti sono stati soccorsi dalla nave della Marina Militare Dattilo che li ha trasbordati su due mezzi della Capitaneria di porto, la CP302 e la CP320 della Guardia Costiera di Lampedusa.
Quelle: Deutschlandfunkt
Die einen rufen eine Hotline für Bootsflüchtlinge ins Leben, ein anderer nimmt Flüchtlinge in seinem Hotel auf und bildet sie aus. „Gesichter Europas“ erzählen von Menschen, die nicht tatenlos zusehen wollen, die sich für Flüchtlinge einsetzen. Auf Eigeninitiative oder im Team, spontan oder organisiert, mal mit, mal ohne Erfolg. Am Mikrofon: Katrin Michaelsen
Alarm Phone Weekly Report, August 23-30 [pdf]
We currently witness human movements toward and within Europe of historic dimension. Despite European visa regimes, barbed wire fences and border forces, despite intimidation, violent assaults and fatalities, thousands have successfully surpassed external border barriers this week and are moving toward their desired places of arrival. It is through their mobility and struggle that the European border regime is increasingly losing its ability to deter – and tools of mobility control such as the Dublin III regulation are on the verge of collapsing. These struggles are, however, very costly. 71 dead bodies were discovered in a lorry on an Austrian motorway. At least two shipwrecks occurred in the Central Med, with more than 237 people drowning. For the first time, the civilian rescue vessel Sea Watch had to recover dead bodies in one of their many rescue operations. Several vessels capsized in the Aegean Sea, leaving dozens dead in the short stretch between Turkey and Greek islands. These are the deaths of Europe and its border regime that could have been prevented if legal and safe routes had been available.
Nach der Schiffskatastrophe vom 28.08.2015, die nach neuesten Angaben 300 Menschenleben gekostet hat (200 Gerettete von 500 Passagieren), ist am gestrigen Sonntag ein weiteres Flüchtlingsboot zwischen Libyen und Italien untergegangen. Bislang wurden 37 Tote geborgen, gerettet wurde niemand. Das Rote Kreuz und der Fernsehsender Al Arabia berichten, dass es an Schiffen fehlt, um weitere Tote aus dem Meer zu bergen.
Die Besatzung der „Sea-Watch“ – das erste privat finanzierte Schiff zur Flüchtlings-Ersthilfe im Mittelmeer aus Deutschland – hat alleine am heutigen Donnerstag fünf Boote mit über 500 Menschen an Bord aus Seenot gerettet. Sea-Watch fordert dringend weitere Rettungskapazitäten vor Ort zu schaffen, sowie legale Einreisewege für Flüchtende.
Die MS Sea-Watch, welches seit Juni auf dem zentralen Mittelmeer im Einsatz ist und seither auf fünf Einsatzfahrten bereits über 1.500 Menschen aus Seenot retten konnte, hat heute an nur einem Tag über 500 Menschen von fünf Schlauchbooten gerettet. Auf den Booten gab es mehrere, teils schwer verletzte Personen, sowie bereits zwei Tote, als die “Sea-Watch” den Unglücksort erreichte.
This week, once again, thousands successfully overcame Europe’s maritime borders, especially the Aegean Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone was alerted to more than ten groups in distress somewhere in the Greek-Turkish borderzone, to two vessels between Morocco and Spain, and to six vessels off the coast of Libya. On the 22nd of August alone we witnessed a record number of travellers being rescued from various vessels in distress in the Central Med. We were supporting six vessels on that day, carrying hundreds of people. Also on the 22nd, thousands overcame armed borderguards and fences toward Macedonia, successfully moving further toward Central European territories. Many of them had overcome the Aegean Sea only days earlier. Of course, while there are many reasons to be hopeful, we also witnessed the hardship and suffering of those on the move. Obstacles are placed in their paths that make journeys dangerous and lengthy. Our friends on the Greek islands encountered injured people, the elderly, children and pregnant women who, after incredibly strenuous sea crossings, had to walk for hours until they found some refuge and had to struggle for days and weeks afterwards in order to be allowed to leave the islands. The situation is dramatic and the humanitarian crisis is far from being adequately addressed. Nonetheless, through their stubborn movements, these travellers enact the freedom of movement and subvert the European border regime physically, thereby challenging policies and technologies of population control, including the Dublin III regulation. Under immense pressure, German authorities announced that Syrians would not be returned to other EU countries of entry or transit anymore – a huge success for the people concerned and their supporters.
Quelle: Diritti e Frontiere
Documento ricevuto da Mai Piu Cie e dalla Campagna Lasciateci Entrare
Il 14 Agosto su “il Giornale” è uscito un articolo a firma di Fausto Biloslavo, che esprime considerazioni che farebbero ridere se non mirassero ancora una volta ad alimentare la pericolosa deriva xenofoba che sta attraversando il nostro paese e l’intera Europa, andando ad attaccare persone e realtà che stanno combattendo una lotta durissima in difesa delle persone migranti e dei Diritti Umani. Un “de-giornalismo” che mira a vilipendere e diffamare, portando questioni gravi e serie a livello di pettegolezzi, se non calunnie vere e proprie. Deridere o insultare per distorcere le azioni e i loro significati distogliendo l’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica dai fatti reali, usando linguaggi da palinsesti di serie B o rotocalchi scandalistici.
Quelle: Al Jazeera
The word migrant has become a largely inaccurate umbrella term for this complex story.
Imagine waking your children in the morning. Imagine feeding and dressing them. Imagine pulling a little girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair of shoes he wants to wear. Weiterlesen »
The Alarm Phone received an unprecedented number of calls from the Aegean region over the past few weeks which gave us direct insights into the increasingly desperate situation along Turkish shores and on the Greek islands. Trying to reach EU territory, hundreds of people attempt the dangerous sea-journey between mainland Turkey and the many Greek islands daily. A few days ago it emerged that six Syrian refugees drowned, amongst them an infant, after their vessel had capsized. Distress situations were also actively produced by some forces of the Greek coastguards and unidentified actors who violently attacked refugee vessels, took away engines and petrol and, in some cases, even punctured the rubber vessels, leaving the travellers behind at sea and in acute danger. We have first-hand accounts from those who survived these practices and we published several reports in which we denounced these grave human rights violations in the strongest terms. We already called upon the Greek government to launch an official investigation into these attacks (http://www.watchthemed.net/index.php/page/index/18).
