When xenophobic words become real violence – Media Diversified
3.6.16
When xenophobic words become real violence – Media Diversified: This is not an isolated incident. There have been reports of police aggression, as well as other outside gangs carrying out attacks. M�decins Sans Fronti�res, who provide vital support to the people living in Calais, say every week they see around twelve incidents where people have been violently attacked. And that’s just the ones they come across. Marianne Humbershot, who heads up the legal centre in the camp, told The Independent of the horrors she’s witnessed: “stabbing, strangling and beating with metal sticks. These attacks are against men, women and children. Minors. I have the account of a 10-year-old boy who has been subjected to police violence. I have a 13-year-old who was beaten by police – and 10 days before he had his nose broken by ‘racists’.” No one has yet been held accountable. Crime have been committed but so far there are no criminals.
These campaigns of violence with no visible repercussions should come as little surprise. People living in these camps find few in positions of real power who will properly defend them. Just yesterday, a judge ruled to bulldoze a whole section of the Calais refugee camp with no real plans in place to rehome the people who will lose their makeshift accommodation. Already warnings are in print: they will “use force if necessary”.
Dispatch: Aboriginal Press Media Group | Permalink | [3.6.16] | 0 comments
5044515473914857049
» {Newer-Posts} {Older-Posts} «
0 Comments:
/ 3.6.16 / 2016/06/#5044515473914857049
Aboriginal News Group
Contributing Editors, International Correspondents & Affiliates
- (RIP) John John [Occupied Canada]
- Sina Brown-Davis [Occupied Australia]
- (RIP) Ridwan Laher [Rep. of South Africa]
- Mars2Earth [Occupied Aotearoa]
- Bolivia Rising [Bolivia]
- Simon Moya-Smith [Occupied N. America]
- Zashnain Zainal [Malaysia]
- Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria [Peru/Occupied N. America]
- Debbie Reese [Occupied N. America]
- Gerald and Maas Night\u2019s Lantern [Occupied Canada]
- Min Reyes [Occupied Canada]
- @alyssa011968 [Occupied N. America]
- Martyn Namorong [Papua New Guinea]
- Abiyomi Kofi [Occupied N. America]
- Tiokasin Ghosthorse [Occupied N. America]
- Vagabond Beaumont [Occupied Puerto Rico/N. America]
- Lupe Morales [Occupied N. America/Oaxaca,MX]
- Aztatl Garza [Occupied N. America]
This is an Ad-Free Newswire
#ReportHate
============
Southern Poverty Law Center
This site uses the Blogspot Platform
Impressum
Inteligenta Indigena Novajoservo™ (IIN) is maintained by the Aboriginal Press News Service™ (APNS) a subset of the Aboriginal News Group™ (ANG). All material provided here is for informational purposes only, including all original editorials, news items and related post images, is published under a CC: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license (unless otherwise stated) and/or 'Fair Use', via section 107 of the US Copyright Law). This publication is autonomous; stateless and non-partisan. We refuse to accept paid advertising, swag, or monetary donations and assume no liability for the content and/or hyperlinked data of any other referenced website. The APNS-ANG and its affiliate orgs do not advocate, encourage or condone any type/form of illegal and/or violent behaviour.