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43 people exposed at Pristina Airport
Yesterday, about 17:00 the deportation planes came after a stopover in Vienna to Pristina. One of our supporters on the ground could see 43 people who arrived by plane. Thus, there are at least less than the planned more than 100 passengers and also less than initially estimated at Dusseldorf Airport. Nevertheless, any deportation is too much and caused great suffering among those affected! Our observer told us of for him hardly bearable scenes on the Pristina airport: children crying, frustrated and desperate people looking for a place to go.
Representatives of the German Embassy and the URA II project were also present and offered the deportees in a few days in a hotel near the airport to descend. This offer was hardly noticed because after their arrival, most fled the airport. Further integration aids are anyway only open to 'voluntary' returnees and not for deportees.
Sabilje Begani and her four children were also found. Whether there will be an opportunity for her to return is uncertain and will probably not succeed overnight. As long as they will have to set up in Kosovo, which might be problematic for a single woman with four small children. All this in addition to the concern is for her critically ill husband, whom she now cannot visit in hospital.
The situation of a man from Rheine is also dramatic. He was deported along with his 20-year-old pregnant daughter while his wife remained with five children in Rheine. Here was again ruthlessly separated a family, too! Previously, they had lived 21 years in Germany.
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Here's a short, but good, NPR news clip covering the conditions the Roma (particularly the children) face back in Kosovo:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4659775
Rae
Thanks Rae. I'm going to post this.
You are such a good one.
Morgan
Are Germans doing to Roma what they did to Jews?
Well, the Nazis did it to Roma as well during the Holocaust. And it continues throughout Europe to this day.
Amazingly, Germany seems to be trying. Much more than can be said for most Western European Nations, and certainly more so than Eastern European countries.
Thanks so much for your comment.
Morgan
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