Charter to Kabul/ regular charter from UK
Chiara Lauvergnac | 15.12.2009 21:00 | Anti-racism | Repression | Terror War | World
There are regular charter flights from UK to Kabul, usually every Tuesday, this for instance is the 'usual' Tuesday run picking up a few Afghans in France.
In France there are large protests every time they try to deport people to Afghanistan. In UK, nobody says a thing. The UK are the only European country together with Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands to deport people to Afghanistan.
I spoke to some of the Afghans who were to be put on the charter flight, detained in Brook House and they were scared for their lives to be sent back there.
Some relevant issues:
1) the chartered plane lands in Kabul in the military part of the airport, where nobody has access except the military and security services;
2) people who worked for the Taliban or other insurgent groups are likely to be detained on arrival, interrogated, tortured, imprisoned and worst;
3) people who worked for the security services, the army, the police etc. cannot have their safety guaranteed because of the state of the country: there is nothing like rule of law or being able to be protected by police;
4) the Taliban are very keen on tracking down and killing everyone who worked for the Americans, even some one who just worked as a translator- according to an Afghan man I spoke to in Calais, the Taliban decapitated a 13 years old boy who had worked as a translator; of course the Americans aren't any better, they committed numerous atrocities of the worst kind against the Afghan people - a friend of mine reported they shot a little boy just for practice- that's why in Afghanistan nobody but nobody likes the Americans.
According to the Home Office quarterly statistics Afghans are top nationality to be detained in UK (700 in July/August/September 2009 ) and deported / or returning 'voluntarily' (340)
No place in Afghanistan is safe
At least 8 dead 40 injuried in Kabul car bomb:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/2009121553832185390.html
War escalate
AS Nobel Peace Price winner Obama sends 30.000 more troops, violence is expected to escalate.
Brown commits 500 extra troops.
NATO looking to send 500 extra troops.
( This is what some or the 'official' sources are saying... I spare you HRW due to their commitment in saying the Americans are there to restore order.)
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born-UN
19 Nov 2009 19:06:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Afghanistan especially dangerous for girls - UNICEF * Afghan infant mortality rate world's highest * 70 pct of populace lacks access to clean water
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19176443.htm
One out of every four refugees in the world today is from Afghanistan according to the UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a6477ef2.html
I spoke to some of the Afghans who were to be put on the charter flight, detained in Brook House and they were scared for their lives to be sent back there.
Some relevant issues:
1) the chartered plane lands in Kabul in the military part of the airport, where nobody has access except the military and security services;
2) people who worked for the Taliban or other insurgent groups are likely to be detained on arrival, interrogated, tortured, imprisoned and worst;
3) people who worked for the security services, the army, the police etc. cannot have their safety guaranteed because of the state of the country: there is nothing like rule of law or being able to be protected by police;
4) the Taliban are very keen on tracking down and killing everyone who worked for the Americans, even some one who just worked as a translator- according to an Afghan man I spoke to in Calais, the Taliban decapitated a 13 years old boy who had worked as a translator; of course the Americans aren't any better, they committed numerous atrocities of the worst kind against the Afghan people - a friend of mine reported they shot a little boy just for practice- that's why in Afghanistan nobody but nobody likes the Americans.
According to the Home Office quarterly statistics Afghans are top nationality to be detained in UK (700 in July/August/September 2009 ) and deported / or returning 'voluntarily' (340)
No place in Afghanistan is safe
At least 8 dead 40 injuried in Kabul car bomb:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/2009121553832185390.html War escalate
AS Nobel Peace Price winner Obama sends 30.000 more troops, violence is expected to escalate.
Brown commits 500 extra troops.
NATO looking to send 500 extra troops.
( This is what some or the 'official' sources are saying... I spare you HRW due to their commitment in saying the Americans are there to restore order.)
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born-UN
19 Nov 2009 19:06:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Afghanistan especially dangerous for girls - UNICEF * Afghan infant mortality rate world's highest * 70 pct of populace lacks access to clean water
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19176443.htm One out of every four refugees in the world today is from Afghanistan according to the UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a6477ef2.html
Chiara Lauvergnac