I was there

I was there.
I saw what it was like there.
I saw what it is for a person to have only a piece of paper for guarantee.
Yes, a piece of paper.
A piece of paper was everything for a human.
A piece of paper for which, a human tries for many months.
Can you think what kind of paper could that be?
A piece of paper with a number written on it, the number that records a foreign name.
I ask you if you know.
Do you know?
Do you know how many people are being humiliated every day for this piece of paper?
Do you know how it is like, there?
Have you seen all these things?
Maybe not!
Or maybe you know, but a little bit less.
Less than me and less than thousands of people like me.
Thousands that are named and being called "foreigners".
This is the name that distinguishes us.
That’s the name we have and that’s the way we stay here.
This is the way and the name with which we kill every feeling we have.
And, worst of all, when we see you we feel ashamed and we drop our look on the floor.
This is because we feel that we steal your rights.
We know and we feel it, that we stepped on your sacred land without your permission.
We know it and we acknowledge it very deeply.
We have learned how to remain silent and not to shout. Because this is the only way for us to manage to stay here. This is the only way for us, not to collapse from our depression.
And the only sparkle of hope is still alive.
Perhaps you know all these much less, or even not at all.
Perhaps you don’t know how much tough it is. How much tough it is to be called "animal" by human beings same as you.
But what’s the difference between animals and humans? The homeland that we, the "animals" don’t have.
But we believe that we live here and that we come from here. Here and every corner of this planet is our homeland.

The refugeing phenomenon and the reasons we became refugees.

All of us know that migration is not a new phenomenon that doesn’t exist only in our times but in ancient periods too, when humans were not yet civilians. However, during the ancient years the migration phenomenon wasn’t the same as today. Nowadays we understand migration under the circumstances of our days.
In old times, people used to migrate searching for a place to live, in order to cover more easily their basic needs. On their effort to settle in new places, they violently expelled those who lived there before, by war.
Throughout the centuries, migration began to appear in other forms. Particularly, after World War 2 and the establishment of United Nations, new international structures were founded, which controlled the populations’ moving. Those structures were acknowledged by all the countries globally. A section of the UN was devoted to the human rights protection. These fundamental rights of every human being were distinguished by the UN’s Declaration of the Human Rights. Every human has rights in life, freedom of thought, education and religious freedom. So, according to the UN declarations, anybody whose country doesn’t establish these basic rights might migrate to another country to live in.
Now, let’s examine if, in our days, every human does have the right to live. And let’s also see if migrating to other countries is one of our rights or a crime that we commit. It might seem very easy for somebody to say that living is a normal, physical situation for everybody. But when we think of the places of the world where living is a normal situation, then this issue needs much more consideration. For example, in Afghanistan, the ban of one’s right to live is, for some people, as simple as going out on a picnic or as going hunting. In Afghanistan the right to live is covered by tons of bombs being dropped every minute. People’s outcries for the destructions are covered by the noise of the war aircrafts which fill the sky. The places where the bullet holes are uncountable are those where we have to calculate the right to live. The places where a person is killed every ten minutes. The places where a person becomes a refugee every five minutes. Is it possible for the people to stay alive in such places? Is it possible for the rockets and bombs to have eyes so as not to steal the right to live from the people? So, how will the right to live be measured in Afgahnistan? Or perhaps, we can’t measure it there?
Definitely, the situation that the people of Afghanistan is facing every day gives the answer to all these questions. We can also find the answer in the people’s flood which leaves Afghanistan in order to escape from the democratic lies that annoy all the people’s ears and mainly the Afghans’ ears. When they talk about democracy in Afghanistan, this means that the Afghans can not collect their bones. When they talk about human rights, this means that they build private prisons. When they talk about society’s "reform" this means that thousands of children leave their families and abandon Afghanistan. And nobody knows how many of them will be sacrificed by the hands of immigrant smugglers and the mafia.
All these facts show us how Afghan people try to escape from the American Democracy and the European Human Rights. Also, the beggars we meet on the streets of Afghanistan show us the American renewing and the European reform. The construction of the two big prisons in Kabul, which will be used the way Guadanamo is, proves the kind of democracy that the Afghan people suffers. This is the price that the Afghans pay with their own blood, without having been involved in any way in the cause of this tragedy.
So, in order to estimate the imperialist propaganda which concerns democracy and safety in Afghanistan, we have to examine the situation of Afghan people. We have to take in mind the pressure being put on Afghans by the occupation troops which continue to be transported in Afghanistan from foreign countries. The demolition of people’s protest by these troops is an every-day event. Generally, as long as the drawbacks in thought, mind, speech, information and the way of life of people remain, words such as "democracy" and "security" have no meaning. Today in Afghanistan, we can clearly see that the new authorities create more restrictions and limits for the people, by the new constitution and the laws that they have established. In a few words, this government, with the support of its patrons, works as a tyrannical, medieval regime which freezes every progressive and cultural movement in the country. They consciously promote a policy that does not allow the people to breathe freely and have political demands, because if the people gained rights they would fight against the government looking for revenge. Under this government, the specification and the knowledge of people’s rights is against the legislation of this puppet regime. If someone speaks about democratic standards or political equality, it is considered as a crime that cannot be ignored. The religious power, through physical force and the religious law, as it is in Afghanistan, not only does not allow the progress and the reformation of the society but also creates much more conservation. The imperialist policies use religious power to gain more easily their benefits, something that has happened many times in the recent history of Afghanistan. The afghan people have gone many times through similar situations. From Halk Partcham’s groups to today’s wendis who have the power, we all have witnessed the punishment against anyone who speaks against the system or even who tries to reveal its weaknesses. But this time, they try to hide it with a democratic cover.
So, let’s consider the personal life or the political visions of people in Afghanistan. Of course, in this case, when we talk about political vision, this vision should firstly be allowed by law. Those against the law are prohibited and whoever speaks against the law’s spirit, is being hanged, according to the third article of the constitution. However, imperialism’s servants, keep on speaking out about democracy every day, just like parrots.
For those reasons, Afghan people have two choices. Either stay in their country, accept the religious law and the power of the several imperialist forces who have gathered in the region, something that means that there is no guarantee for their lives, or leave their country in order to stay alive. The imperialist forces believe that they have built a safe and democratic state in Afghanistan, but we abandoned it so as to stay alive and because we believe that it is neither safe nor democratic. For us there wasn’t any other choice but stay alive or being killed. We chose to become refugees because we didn’t want to become martyrs of the "humanitarian assistance" mission from airplanes, an assistance which we pay it with our own blood. Let’s imagine people who are killed by stepping on mines or being shot by the invasion troops because they were assumed as Taliban, at the moment they run out to collect the humanitarian assistance dropped by air. In a few words we can say that they used this assistance as decoy for chasing people. Our crime was that we attempted to escape this situation which means that we reacted to it by staying alive instead of being killed.
But human rights are declared in those countries which created this situation in Afghanistan. And we are supposed to feel these rights when we approach Europe. We had imagined the European countries as paradise. And tens of us died on our route towards this paradise, just to be able to breathe freely for one day. But we didn’t see the paradise we had heard of. We didn’t know that the European imperialism’s big walls painted in dark colors would impose such huge psychological pressure on us that it can be seen on each of our faces. On the face of thousands of people who had no other choice than live under these conditions. Several discriminations exist in the society, from daily life to working places and to the irregular daily jobs we do. However, we are forced to suffer this situation which is clear for every one of us. In these imaginary paradises, the kicks by police commandos cut our breath, they through us to the sea, they bound us with handcuffs, we are forced to live in deserted houses in Greece or in plastic accommodations in parks in Italy to protect ourselves from cold and rain, we hide in rubbish bins in France or in spaces in railway stations in other European countries. A special type of hospitality is the police’s one, when they hit us with their sticks. From all these and hundreds of other that take place in the countries which are supposed to protect the human rights, we can take a picture of the real social and political rights we are allowed to have. The European countries’ policies are to reject our applications for asylum, to spread racist ideas among the people and to make deals with the governments of our homelands for our repatriation against our will. For all of us waiting for an answer to our asylum applications, without knowing whether it will be affirmative or not, these are the indications of a policy against human rights. A policy which becomes harder and harder every day.
Who doesn’t know the situation in Afghanistan, the psychological pressure and the fear of all the Afghan people caused by all those forces that gathered there in the name of the Security Council of the United Nations? Who ignores the situation there? Every day, we meet people who have emigrated from Afghanistan, a country which became a "devil" for its people and the only way for them to escape from this devil is to become refugees.