Press release
of October, 23th 1998
Accident at flight from Federal Border Guard:
Consequences of the Fortress Europe
PRO ASYL: Stop manhunting
Accident at flight from Federal Border Guard
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With hard criticism and an insistent appeal the Nationwide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL reacted on new reports of a severe accident at the German Eastern border, where more than 15 individuals were partly seriously injured at their flight from pursuing border police cars.
The spokesperson of PRO ASYL, Heiko Kauffmann, declared in Frankfurt today: „German politics gets implausible, if it on the one hand with the reason to want to finish the conflict in the Kosovo, supports military measures and on the other hand rejects the victims of this humanitarian catastrophe at its borders negligently endangering them by hunting measures of the state itself“.
It is to fear, that refugees would be instrumentalised as alibi for combat missions. Kauffmann: „It is inhuman, that the German government makes political decisions in view of the expulsion in Kosovo and elsewhere with priority under the criterion of the prevention of the reception of refugees.“
PRO ASYL asks the new Federal government, to admit refugees from Kosovo. The by so-called public relations campaigns of the Federal Border Guard i.e. by the state staged threatening scenarios and the hysteria kindled with prejudices against refugees must be stopped. „Finish manhunting in the bordering area! Refugees need help, protection has to be granted to them and their request must be checked unbiasedly“, declared Kauffmann. It isn’t necessarily a reference to a liberal and democratic state under the rule of law, if people, who escaped from war, violence, persecution and multiple privations, damage by measures of the state where they seek protection.
