Call for the demo on 18.05.2005 in Magdeburg
For the immediate closure of the deportation camp in HBS
„The worst is, and we are sorry to say it, but the worst thing is, as human being of the 21st century with methods used in the camps in this century obliged to make it open. Pictures from refugee camps, concentration camps, and internment camps are always so impressive, if they come from far away. We live here in Halberstadt (HBS) in a deportation camp… from one foreign officer to another one we get unidentified well chosen keys, and by the way because we are “not violent, socially easy to get on with ” as the authorities say-Halberstadt is reasonable.
We want as human beings not only in our heads yearning for freedom.” People from the camp
Three years ago through the inner ministry of Saxony-Anhalt it was decided to built in Halberstadt „ A central building for people awaiting deportation “,defined according to the official terminology from the authorities with the GU-ZASt too as (General reception centre for asylum seekers). The aim of this through the refugees is to reach, by the means of „intensive social care “ the „ facilitation to get a travelling document“.
The deportation camp is outside of Halberstadt. With the reception centre (ZASt) is in a former barrack of the NVA. Since 1989, all the rooms with their several beds where the refugees have to live have not been renovated.
The measures of the intensive social care “include the fact that the residence obligation law strict confine the refugee to the city of Halberstadt. The severity of the decree for the deportation institution was to put an accent on the permission application issue, which have “to be operated with restrictive measure.” The permission to leave “Duldung” must be renewed on a weekly basis, sometimes daily.
The medical care is restricted to the essential. There is no doctor in the camp, but only a nurse, who examines the refugees and makes her report in order to issue a health certificate through a very long bureaucratic way. Right after that the refugees have to face a 7 km walk in order to get to the responsible doctor who could take care of them.
A lot of refugees in the camp are sick. Apart from the psychological sufferings there is the psychological background, like sleeping disturbances, fear and depression. John Williams, who lived in the deportation camp for two years, died on April the 4th,., 2004. Until today, the question is: What were the effects of the living conditions there on his disease, have not been completely clarified
Another deterioration of the situation comes from the fact that people in deportation prison do not have, get any financial mean. In summary the care is insufficient in order to have a normal living as a human being.
„ A life like animals, provided with food and sleep „ like L.., from the deportation centre said .
The aim of the camp is clear. The refugees must be penalised until they accept to get an identity in order to deport them. The measure is in fact in contrast with the long time stay in the deportation and goes under no democratic control. A clarification of all this is the declaration of the inner minister of Saxony-Anhalt of the 18.01.2004 who said with all his pride, that “…up to the deadline 52 persons travelled voluntarily out of the country or went underground”. According to the new planning 250 people are to be send to the “deportation centre”. More than 50% of the concerned refugees have started a life in the “illegality” and that is obviously wanted that way.
We demand therefore the immediate closure of the camp!
Manifestation in front of the inner ministry at 2 pm
Magdeburg Halberstädterstr. 2
Demonstration from 4 pm