"......The new Austrian federal government must rethink and not continue the abominations of the old one......... "Sincere thanks to you Bettina Reiter, President, Association Respekt.net https://www.respekt.net/crowdfunding-fuer-eine-bessere-gesellschaft/, for raising your voice against the deportations to Afghanistan and for your consistent commitment.
I meet young people from Afghanistan 3-4 times a week. In the first phase of our meetings, they are outwardly cheerful, or try to appear rather light-hearted. They enquire lovingly about my health, although they know I was born in peace, my children are grown up, they give me happiness, we are healthy, my mum, my aunt, most of the family, everyone is still alive. Only when I then ask them how they are, after a quick "Thank you, good", does the first approach come to their true situation.
Many of them have lost their families to flight. Others are in great distress, the families are affected by the dangers of a high-risk area. They fall asleep and do not know if everyone will still be alive the next day. Still others have been abandoned because in the mountain village where they come from, the radical Taliban are telling everyone, everyone in Europe is "going rogue" and some are consumed with longing for the family they were separated from at 13.
If these young people are now lucky enough to find friends, families and communities here who accompany them benevolently as they grow into their new lives, then so many beautiful and good things will emerge. Pupils blossom, apprentices begin to burn for their profession, illiterate people learn to read and write, and these people unfold their beings and make friends with our society.
Those who don't meet anyone, because you mustn't think that people on the run are welcomed joyfully everywhere. Fears of foreigners have been stirred up and nurtured in Austria! If, as the government wants to implement through the BBU - Bundesbetreuungsagentur, they are left alone with their experiences, which make them wake up in the night drenched in sweat, the tears they secretly cry into their pillows at night, their losses, their pain, then it becomes bitter. A huge pressure weighs on their shoulders, left alone as human beings. "Ugly pictures!".
The fear of being deported to Afghanistan, this terrible fear dominates everyone until they hold their notices in their hands - or not!
Because they know the reality. They know the brutality of this country. The attacks, the murders, the radicalising groups, the dangers of everyday life, the corruption, the massive injustices, the poverty. And although they love this country, they are justifiably panicked about being deported there.
Let us not allow this! Let's protest together, let's talk about this massive violation of human rights for so long, about the brutality of deporting young people there after unbelievable, traumatic experiences in the country, on the run.
We do not want to and cannot burden ourselves and the next generation with this responsibility. It is a cruelty that no one can justify. Let us not deny the basic needs of people in greatest need. Let us not deny them to ourselves and to the people on the run.
We are yesterday, today and tomorrow!
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