PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
August 9, 1999
The Constitution protects marriage and family
– Not for Kosovo refugees in Germany?
Families separated on their flight remain separate also in this country
Cynicism of authorities: Family reunification at first after return into the destroyed home country
- Das Grundgesetz schützt Ehe und Familie – nicht für Kosovo-Flüchtlinge in Deutschland?
Auf der Flucht getrennte Familien bleiben auch hierzulande getrennt
Behördenzynismus: Familienzusammenführung erst nach Rückkehr in die zerstörte Heimat - The Constitution protects marriage and family – Not for Kosovo refugees in Germany?
Families separated on their flight remain separate also in this country
Cynicism of authorities: Family reunification at first after return into the destroyed home country
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The protection of marriage and family guaranteed by the Constitution does not apply to many Kosovo refugees in Germany obviously. They are refused to live together, as the appropriate relocation requests are rejected or not finished. The Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL criticises the underlying denial attitude of the Federal States.
It is understandable, that during the rapid evacuation of about 15.000 deportees family ties of the received refugees couldn’t be considered sufficiently due to the speed of the action and logistical problems. But it isn’t acceptable for the PRO ASYL-spokesperson Heiko Kauffmann, that up to now there couldn’t be implemented a possible regulation on the reunification of families separated by the events. „The reunification of families is one of the most important preconditions of planning for the future and and the treatment of what people had suffered“.
Individual cases make clear the arbitrariness of authorities: So can’t a woman from Kosovo with her four children, belonging to the contingent of Saxony-Anhalt, live together with her husband, who is registered since four years in the area of Limburg. In another case no agreement is given to a refugee woman with six children received as civil war deportee by the contingent of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, to live together with her husband in Bonn. In both cases the husbands had come as asylum seekers. Comparable cases are also known from other Federal States.
