to saker fra dagens lesning, om flyktninger, som forvirrer meg litt.
1. Først en reportasje i The Guardian:
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In the camps: Frustrated expectations of a return home trigger
violence
Stuart Millar at the Stenkovec camp, Macedonia Wednesday June 9, 1999
The heavy air of stagnation hangs over Stenkovec, a cloying cloud of
boredom and frustration so tangible that it can be felt from the road
long before the former air field and its densely backed rows of tents
come into view. When the first Kosovan Albanians …
… Florim Zegiri, a computing student from Pristina University arrived
at the camp two days ago. Already he has had enough. "If the peace
deal is not agreed by next week I will go back to Kosovo. Even if I
have to sleep outside at least I will not be in this heat with all
these people."
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,56700,00.html
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Er det dette noen flykter for: å måtte sove ute? Jeg er litt forvirret. Var
det en spøk? Journalisten sier ikke noe slikt.
2. En reportasje fra en greker
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... I visited some of the Kosovo refugee camps in Skopje with my brother
about a month ago. He is the current minister of foreign affairs of Greece
and we were delivering humanitarian aid from Greece. Besides visiting and
speaking to some of the refugees themselves, we also spoke to doctors in
the well organized Israeli "hospital." The chief surgeon, a delightful man
(I remember only his last name, Adler, for obvious reasons) told us that
the camps were not what he had expected and were nothing as serious as what
he had seen during his twenty years of medical experience with refugees
other parts of the world.
In the camp he had not encountered patients exhibiting any serious hardship
from the fact that they were actually refugees. Most of the patients
exhibited long-term or chronic medical problems, such as cancer or
arthritis -- Except for fatigue and exhaustion, most of those he'd examined
were not suffering from starvation (as in Africa) or particular abuse. The
"hospital" had an operating room, (tent actually) an obstetrics room,
dental care, and the doctor was proud to have brought to life a baby girl
the night before.
For all those visiting the camps, the most helpful thing they can do is
help the refugees get in touch with relatives abroad.
I also spoke to other relief workers who had solid experience in refugee
camps around the world and they said more or less the same thing, that this
was a pretty calm situation ,well organized, well fed and no dire suffering
of the kind they had seen elsewhere.
Thus I find it exasperating to see, for the last two months, these endless
images of refugees and the emphasis on the human tragedy as if this were a
repeat of the Holocaust. When those trains left Salonika and Larissa, they
didn't end up in refugee camps with doctors and hospitals, cameramen and
excellent and committed relief workers. They ended up in Dachau, Auschwitz
and Birkenau. Where is our historical memory? Tonight I am visiting the
small village of Distomo, to commemorate the death of 227 Greeks on June 10
1944, who were slaughtered even as the Germans retreated. The mayor, Loukas
Papapetrou, was a witness. He told me that his greatest fear for Europe is
that when/if a real Hitler comes around, the West will already have cried
Wolf one time too many.
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Knut Rognes