Des dizaines de milliers de personnes dont des enfants—jugées sur leur seule couleur de peau comme pouvant être des migrants—sont arbitrairement enlevées et abandonnées dans le désert chaque année.
For Dutch speakers, I highly recommend this article.
It's very detailed.
They also give the example of Timothy Hucks, an #American guy from New York whose crime is to be black. Timothy simply left his flat in Morocco to buy some booze. He got abducted by Moroccan security forces, who decided that, no, he is not American, and dumped him far in the desert with others—all black people.
Some quotes translated from that article from Trouw:
"At the end of 2023, the European Parliament expressed its concerns about these practices in a report, writing that migrants were subjected to “systematic and serious human rights violations” such as “arbitrary arrests, detentions, violence, including torture” and “collective expulsions to Senegal and Mali”.
Despite criticism from its own parliament, the @EUCommission decided to ignore this warning and increase its aid to the country."
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"The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, described the July agreement with Tunisia as a model for future agreements with other countries."
"Tunisia's security forces, including the police & national guard, have been trained by Germany and European agencies over the years and are the backbone of operations (..). They cordon off the streets en masse in towns where large numbers of migrants live and transport them to the desert."
"In the group, two women are pregnant, a young boy with an inflamed Achilles tendon has no choice but to walk an average of 25 kilometres a day anyway. "
They are not given any water of course. Walk or die there.
"Not everyone is abandoned in the desert by the authorities (...). Five men tell how they were sold by security forces to border guards from neighbouring Libya."
"One of the Libyan commanders later told Moussa that he had bought them for 20 dinars, less than €4 per person."
Here, the @EUCommission resembles the worst multinational corporations — trying to evade its responsibilities by simply subcontracting its human right violations.
Several hundreds of MILLIONS € are being spent on this.
An International Court of Justice ought to look into this.
As the Dutch newspaper Trouw wrote this morning, this is only the first article on this topic.
More will come.
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