CHOUCHA REFUGEE DECLARATION

  In view and respect of the struggle that we embarked on, one year ago for the justifications of our files that were desecrated(denied of our rights) by the UNHCR emergency protection team in CHOUCHA REFUGEE CAMP.

 In an article some days back, we talked about the present state of the camp,that is now causing people brain dysfunction and traumatizations.

. THE LEGAL AND LIVING SITUATION OF THE CAMP.

   REJECTED CASES LIVING SITUATIONS

 There are two groups of the camp classifications,which are people that were finally rejected,that has means to nothing in the camp for the past six months,feeding,basic and health amenities,(punctuated brutal assault).And we spent more than two years in the camp living in JEOPARDY as at today(a state of peripatetic wandering in the desert that is now in black-out..

       LEGAL SITUATION

  Our point against the rejections are directed to the flaws during and after the interviews,the unprofessional and hasty act and manners with which our files were handled.Complicated,ms-interpreted and ms-understood by the emergency protection team that came to CHOUCHA.We have been in the camp for two years and has the same equal rights as refugees.

    PEOPLE WITH LEGAL STATUS,WITHOUT RESETTLEMENT’S

 The others are people with legal refugee status without a resettlement program,that are on the struggle against the local integration system https://www.facebook.com/refugees.shousha?ref=ts&fref=ts, and in reaction to this embarked on  hunger strike action till date and protesting in front of the UNHCR head office in Tunis.

     UNHCR as a phenom patent NGO,the STATES and the EUROPEAN UNION are our contact points of directory as for a legal definition of the people stranded in the camp today,without a suitable durable solution and our demands directed to them.

 As a result of this we made several protest manifestation to their head quarters in TUNIS.

    IN AGREEMENTS WITH BOTH GROUPS WE MADE THIS DECLARATION.That the rights of everyone who fled the Libyan violence be respected.

  OUR DEMANDS

1).To be accorded asylum protection.

2).To be granted International protection in a safe third country(a country with effective system of protection).

3)A general resettlement for everyone in CHOUCHA CAMP.

BRINGING THE PAINS.CHOUCHA IN BLACK-OUT,NO ELECTRICITY,NO WATER

 Apart from the windy,stormy weather climatic atmospheric conditions that has been troubling the camp for days as the definition of the season,the mandate that cut-off the rejected feeding and basic rationals for the past six months.The diplomatic frustration tormenting human lives in the UNHCR camp as at today.(De-moralizing people,mentally)

 For the past four days in the camp,there is no electricity and water,reasons UN-explainable.According to the ISLAMIC RELIEF and the camp security department,they said the UNHCR stopped paying for the bills.Mindful of the fact that the camp is in a remote desert region that has access to nothing.We are human and need to be treated with fair justice and equality.Is the closing of the camp sough-ting out solutions for the inhabitants or bringing THE PAINS,MORE THAN BEFORE?

TUNISIAN WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2013/CHOUCHA REJECTED ASYLUM SEEKERS

 The world social forum of 2013 is supposed to bring sanitazation and a long lasting durable solution to the rejected asylum seekers in it domain.(TUNISIA)

 Reporting from the forum that lasted four days in which we participated in many discussions,conference,protest manifestations at the entrance of the forum and also in some stands where our issues were discussed.As a projection of the struggle we embark on one year ago and giving reasons why we are fighting against the rejections issued by the UNHCR protection team that camp to Choucha refugee camp of Tunisia.In the points of actions,many talked about the bewildered state of the camp that is officially bet to close without a solution for many.We circulated  flyers explaining a bit about our struggle against the rejections from the UNHCR.Our directions is to the UNHCR,EU and the STATES,not the host country TUNISIA,,that the extreme decisions they hit us with and the miseries they placed us as at today,they had to stand up to their responsibilities,not turning deaf eyes to the situation,legally and otherwise(both ways);

 AS THE FLYERS INDICATES;

 We are a group of asylum seekers whose claims were ms-understood,ms-interpreted and not accorded a proper consideration by the UNHCR protection emergency protection team in Tunisia.We are writing regarding an official plan to close the Choucha refugee camp in JUNE 2013,leaving us without any sought of suitable or durable solutions.(Disenfranchised).

 For more than two years,we have been leaving in LIMBO(languishing)in the desert makeshft remote region.

 Our present living condition in Choucha camp exceeds our capacity to bear,our feeding rations(alimentations) has been cut off since the past five months.

 Mindful of the fact that there are many families with children,single men and women as well as pregnant women in this plight,we are appealing for your consideration to support our objection to such cruel decisions that is already starving and frustrating many human beings in the camp.

 OUR MAIN ARGUMENT IS THE UNJUSTIFIED AND UNPROFESSIONAL MANNERS WITH WHICH OUR CASES WERE TREATED.

 In view of the aforementioned,we have embarked on a struggle since the past one year and also made a manifestation to the UNCHR HEAD-QUARTERS and the EU delegation in Tunis from JAN 27-FEB 03 2013.

  OUR DEMANDS REMAINS;

1) To be accorded asylum protection.

2) To be granted international protection in a safe third country(a country with effective system of protection.

 

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PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION BUILDING IN TUNIS

 On Wednesday 27/03/2013 we embarked on a march from the providence we where accommodated to the delegation building.At the time of arrival it took us quite some reasonable hours before the delegation representative came to address our struggle.

  An open discussion was held by two of the board of directors member on political affairs as they introduced themselves.The starting reference points from us was the letter they sent to BRUSSELS as the agreements reached in our former protest,which apparently their response was negative.And further,they explain the position of the delegation on our issues,not to be responsible,but the UNHCR.

Our arguments,the reason why our struggle is also directed to the EU,member states was what we address again before them.The decision that choked us in this bewildered position,they were part of it also and we expected them to be a part of sough ting out a suitable durable solution to those living in limbo in the camp(without solution).

 We need a solution from them as well the UNHCR to our plights,hence.

 Finally our demands to them as partakers in the decision is TO BE ACCORDED  ASYLUM PROTECTION and TO BE GRANTED INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION IN A SAFE THIRD COUNTRY(A COUNTRY WITH EFFECTIVE SYSTEM OF PROTECTION.

 The conclusion was they are going to pressurize their head office and see to our struggle;.

THE BITTER EXPERIENCE

 After all the arrangement, discussions officially for us to attend the world social forum that started 26-29th of march 2013 at Campus El-manar in Tunis,we were disrupted(blocked) by the military on Monday 25/03/2013 night,interrogated and sent back to the camp,that finally we requested travel for a delegations of eight persons immediately under the bengerdene chief security who was engaged in the discussions.We embarked on the journey that night after what most members of the group had to travel with other small buses by different means possible, in view of meeting the target of the world social forum to express our difficulties and legal position under the UNHCR,the STATES and  EU who are responsible not as under the Tunisian government as the host country.Finally the group assembly(turn-up)despite the blockage,the trip was a success. In the events (program) our demands and struggle against our asylum rejections under the UNHCR emergency protection team in Choucha were reiterated.

PROTEST DECLARATION!!!

 After six days of protest with our negotiations and demands still intact.We did not quit our claims,neither give up nor surrender on our struggles.Our demands has to be met by the UNHCR.We are not “MIGRANTS”under Tunisien,but “ASYLUM”seekers under the UNHCR and we are demanding an asylum protection from the responsible(UNHCR),to re-install our normal services,just like everyone,general resettlement for everyone in a safe country counting effective system of protection.

 Friday 1st/02/2013.We extended our manifestation to the European Union delegation building with our banners indicating”EUROPEAN UNION,FINISH YOUR JOB”after some minutes one of the secretary came to us saying,the ambassador is having a meeting and after the meeting they need the representatives to come in for a meeting.Though the ambassador was busy,but in her place was,Mr Giahamorea Villa the director of human rights(political issues) Mr Michel,social affairs,Mr Abdelaziz Lyamouri(refugee affairs).This three board members of the delegation hosted the meeting in place of the ambassador,after the introduction the meeting commenced with Mr Michell asking a brief analysis of why we are here,we explained and he asked,what is our demands.Firstly we asked the delegation not to turn deaf ears to our plights,that they already know and also they are among the decision makers and they have to intercide on our legal status under the UNHCR and,affair asylum protection/general resettlement,among theses were are our demands.The three different board members asked other questions,that we answered to.In conclusion they said the first measure they are going to implore is to have a delegation meeting with the UNHCR about the files review,talk to members of state and the Tunisien government to see to our critical conditions in the camp.And a delegation meeting with members of the E.U states and a letter to be addressed to their head office in Brussels.Finally they said,the EU delegation here will get back to us in a short while.

 After all the negotiations,we came back to Choucha 02/02/2013(Saturday)

 We keep our struggles intact until our demands are met and our individual files justified.

 

PRESS INTERVIEW WITH THE UNHCR AND THE REJECTED REPRESENTATIVES YESTERDAY

  Thursday 31st(yesterday) a television station made an interview with the UNHCR external spokes person,demanding to hear their point of view concerning the manifestation.Mrs Delia who represent the UNHCR said,they made interview that determine who is a refugee and who is not.Secondly the UNHCR Geneva made a meeting with the final rejected in the camp,and that the rejected accepted to return to countries of origin upon a reached agreement.After the interview with the office,they demanded another interview with the rejected representatives.The method of it,was our response to these two points against us from the UNHCR.Firstly saying the interview process determine who a refugee is.We totally lost confidence in the entire interview process,we experience too many complications during and after the interviews,the process wasn’t transparent and we have no confidence on the way they were conducted.Secondly,that we already reached an agreement with Geneva to go back to our countries,this should not be a general language being refer ed(generalized)to everyone,because they have the list of those that reached that agreement with them they knows,what the protection team here did that very day was just so unfair,by using the military to prevent the community representatives and replacing them in the meeting with others to speak on our behalf,saying,the IOM 700 Dollars is too small and that we want to return to our countries.Let the protection team check for the names of those they use in advocating the general purpose of everyone of us,if it correspond with the rejected community representatives in the history of Choucha camp.We did not reached any agreement.Do you think we reached an agreement and today forced by our BEING ABANDONED,LEFT TO DIE and mount around the UNHCR head office demand for our RIGHT?.