On Friday, 11th of August 2018 some vandals completely destroyed the memorial for the dead at the European borders on Lesvos.
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Destroying the memorial cannot erase the memory!
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Η καταστροφή του μνημείου δεν μπορεί να διαγράψει τη μνήμη!
Την Παρασκευή 11 Αυγούστου 2018 ορισμένοι βάνδαλοι κατέστρεψαν το μνημείο για τους νεκρούς στα ευρωπαϊκά σύνορα στη Λέσβο.
Continue reading Η καταστροφή του μνημείου δεν μπορεί να διαγράψει τη μνήμη!
“My shoes burned in Moria. Before my shoes burned I used to run.”
A talk with a friend from Ethiopia on Lesbos Island…
If you want to run away and you are black they see you from far, White people they can run. Me sometimes i ask where can I get this white skin? For white people it is easy to run away.
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“I am 21 years old. I come from West Ethiopia. I belong to the Oromo. The Oromo are a very big tribe, which inhibits a very rich part of country in the country. This is why we have so many problems.
Before I left I was a student in Adis Abeba and I also used to run. I have a good time: 10 kilometers I used to finish in 33’.
In my university they killed many Oromo students. They used to pick… well, they know us by our traditional names. My name is an Oromo name. They used to pick up all clever students from Oromo tribe and said they wanted to give us money and teach us to teach Oromo people to change their mind. They wanted us to make our people accept to give our land away. They wanted to force us to go and change them. We said: No! We can not do that. We can not change the rules.
Continue reading “My shoes burned in Moria. Before my shoes burned I used to run.”
Lesvos 21.3.2016: Detained Pakistanis transported with Blue Star in handcuffs to Piraeus / additional information
A witness account
We were traveling with the ferry Blue Star 1 from Mytilene to Piraeus on the 21.3.16.
As we entered the ship at 19.45 o’clock we saw an overcrowded bus entering filled with with sitting and standing persons. Outside media representatives and volunteers where watching the situation.
The bus on which was written EURORIDE on the front right side and which had the plate nr. PAZ1316 stopped inside the ship and we could see from a distance of 1 meter the people running handcuffed two by two up the stairs. We asked how many they are and someone from the crew said 150. Continue reading Lesvos 21.3.2016: Detained Pakistanis transported with Blue Star in handcuffs to Piraeus / additional information
How Nasimgul survived the waves… / New w2eu-booklet for download now
Nasimgul spent 18 hours in the rough sea near Lesvos without knowing if she’d survive and having lost track of her small baby girl in August 2014. This is her story.
