Refugee women are being sexually abused at the EU border. Where is the outrage?

[Valeriu]

This is why your gypsy country is among coalition of NATO with over 20 countries, and gets fucked in Afghanistan by simple farmers? HAHAHAHA? Wtf man? Get real..

I do not engage people with your level of education.bye

 

[ranawat]

During the first two weeks of August, when most people in Western Europe were enjoying their summer holidays, volunteers from No Name Kitchen, a group helping migrants in Bosnia,recorded 17 cases of violence against people on the move at the country's border with Croatia. (The UNHCR recently reported that their partners in Bosnia and Serbia recorded over 700 allegations of violence at the borders of Croatia since the beginning of this year.)

In at least five of the 17 cases recorded by No Name Kitchen, the victims were vulnerable women who were trying to reach safety in the European Union. Volunteers said these women were treated brutally by the authorities and subjected to sexual violence, racism and Islamophobia.

Marva, from Afghanistan, told them the group she was travelling with was stopped by police after they crossed the Slovenian border. She said the officers ordered the women in the group to remove their niqabs. When she refused to do so and started to cry, a policeman forcefully removed the garment and threw it on the floor. "Here is not Afghanistan, here is Slovenia," the policeman allegedly told her. "Here is no Islam."

Fatima, from Iran, had a similar experience, but in Croatia. Her husband and daughter were beaten up by police officers. She was held at gun point and they were all ordered to walk back to Bosnia. She said she was scared to death. She thought they were going to kill her and her family.

Several victims said officers inappropriately touched their bodies, including their breasts and genitals, during these violent encounters. They said the abuse happened in front of their children and husbands. The abusers were always in uniform.

Police violence and brutality is nothing new at the borders of European Union. Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek police officers have long been resorting to violence in order to keep Fortress Europe "safe". Croatian police joined in this brutality last year, and now even Slovenian police is abusing people on the move at their borders.

As always, this violence is affecting the women the most. They are not only violently prevented from finding safety and security in Europe, but also subjected to sexual violence. And their abusers act with impunity.

No one in Brussels, or in any other European capital, has punished or even condemned these officers for their treatment of women at Europe's borders - not even in countries led by women or where leftist, progressive parties are in power.

In the last two years, the #MeToo movement encouraged the world to have a conversation about sexual harassment and condemn men who use their positions of power to abuse women. However, the abuse women (as well as men and children) experience at the hands of border officials at the gates of Europe was never included in this conversation.

European media also contributed to this problem by failing to give a voice to these victims.

On New Year's Eve 2015 many local women reported being robbed and assaulted inCologne, Germany and authorities said most of the accused were North African, migrant men. The media was quick to sensationalise the issue and create a narrative which implied European women are in need of urgent protection from brown, Muslim, migrant men. Authorities were quick to take action.

However, now that migrant women are the victims, the media is largely silent, and the same EU officials urging action on the Cologne attacks are looking the other way.

The violence at the borders of the EU is a message to all migrants - and everyone who is not a citizen of Fortress Europe - that they are not welcome, not even when they are running from wars, persecution, authoritarian regimes, poverty or the devastating effects of climate change. It doesn't matter that Europe is responsible for many ills that are forcing these people to leave their homes and seek safety in foreign lands.

:iberals in the EU are still refusing to acknowledge this loud and clear message sent out by their official representatives. They congratulate themselves on their "humane treatment" of migrants, and refuse to acknowledge the human rights abuses taking place at their doorstep. They hypocritically condemn the US administration for separating families trying to cross US borders, but talk nothing of the abuse of migrants at Europe's borders.

Is the violence migrants endure in Europe any more acceptable than what happens in Trump's America? In "liberal", "progressive" Europe human beings are being physically and sexually abused at borders, threatened and kept in camps indefinitely. Children are often left alone, unprotected, and deprived of an education and a future.

What the EU border police is doing to vulnerable women, men and children is a crime and it cannot go unpunished.

If Europe does not act now, it will soon become a place where violence against "the other" is acceptable. This has happened many times before in recent history, and humanity at large suffered its consequences. Europe should learn from its past mistakes, and this time make sure it's on the right side of history.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/metoo-fortress-europe-borders-180905074913780.html

Poor refugees face it in every age .

 

[lastofthepatriots]

I do not engage people with your level of education.bye

You do not engage in truth. It's fine. Your biggest claim to fame was to fight off the Turks. Guess what? In Central Asia, we do not want to fight your people, but If they come here, they are sent back in body bags. Very easy to understand.

 

[ranawat]

During the first two weeks of August, when most people in Western Europe were enjoying their summer holidays, volunteers from No Name Kitchen, a group helping migrants in Bosnia,recorded 17 cases of violence against people on the move at the country's border with Croatia. (The UNHCR recently reported that their partners in Bosnia and Serbia recorded over 700 allegations of violence at the borders of Croatia since the beginning of this year.)

In at least five of the 17 cases recorded by No Name Kitchen, the victims were vulnerable women who were trying to reach safety in the European Union. Volunteers said these women were treated brutally by the authorities and subjected to sexual violence, racism and Islamophobia.

Marva, from Afghanistan, told them the group she was travelling with was stopped by police after they crossed the Slovenian border. She said the officers ordered the women in the group to remove their niqabs. When she refused to do so and started to cry, a policeman forcefully removed the garment and threw it on the floor. "Here is not Afghanistan, here is Slovenia," the policeman allegedly told her. "Here is no Islam."

Fatima, from Iran, had a similar experience, but in Croatia. Her husband and daughter were beaten up by police officers. She was held at gun point and they were all ordered to walk back to Bosnia. She said she was scared to death. She thought they were going to kill her and her family.

Several victims said officers inappropriately touched their bodies, including their breasts and genitals, during these violent encounters. They said the abuse happened in front of their children and husbands. The abusers were always in uniform.

Police violence and brutality is nothing new at the borders of European Union. Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek police officers have long been resorting to violence in order to keep Fortress Europe "safe". Croatian police joined in this brutality last year, and now even Slovenian police is abusing people on the move at their borders.

As always, this violence is affecting the women the most. They are not only violently prevented from finding safety and security in Europe, but also subjected to sexual violence. And their abusers act with impunity.

No one in Brussels, or in any other European capital, has punished or even condemned these officers for their treatment of women at Europe's borders - not even in countries led by women or where leftist, progressive parties are in power.

In the last two years, the #MeToo movement encouraged the world to have a conversation about sexual harassment and condemn men who use their positions of power to abuse women. However, the abuse women (as well as men and children) experience at the hands of border officials at the gates of Europe was never included in this conversation.

European media also contributed to this problem by failing to give a voice to these victims.

On New Year's Eve 2015 many local women reported being robbed and assaulted inCologne, Germany and authorities said most of the accused were North African, migrant men. The media was quick to sensationalise the issue and create a narrative which implied European women are in need of urgent protection from brown, Muslim, migrant men. Authorities were quick to take action.

However, now that migrant women are the victims, the media is largely silent, and the same EU officials urging action on the Cologne attacks are looking the other way.

The violence at the borders of the EU is a message to all migrants - and everyone who is not a citizen of Fortress Europe - that they are not welcome, not even when they are running from wars, persecution, authoritarian regimes, poverty or the devastating effects of climate change. It doesn't matter that Europe is responsible for many ills that are forcing these people to leave their homes and seek safety in foreign lands.

:iberals in the EU are still refusing to acknowledge this loud and clear message sent out by their official representatives. They congratulate themselves on their "humane treatment" of migrants, and refuse to acknowledge the human rights abuses taking place at their doorstep. They hypocritically condemn the US administration for separating families trying to cross US borders, but talk nothing of the abuse of migrants at Europe's borders.

Is the violence migrants endure in Europe any more acceptable than what happens in Trump's America? In "liberal", "progressive" Europe human beings are being physically and sexually abused at borders, threatened and kept in camps indefinitely. Children are often left alone, unprotected, and deprived of an education and a future.

What the EU border police is doing to vulnerable women, men and children is a crime and it cannot go unpunished.

If Europe does not act now, it will soon become a place where violence against "the other" is acceptable. This has happened many times before in recent history, and humanity at large suffered its consequences. Europe should learn from its past mistakes, and this time make sure it's on the right side of history.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/metoo-fortress-europe-borders-180905074913780.html

It is better to take refuge in Muslim countries.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

You are not even considered human by them. So why are you bragging you are stronger then them?

We currently kicked your Russi asses out of Afghanistan, and now your son America is crying to us to leave Afghanistan. We have the best fighters in the entire world, because Muslims never fear death. You people want to live with some money and have good life. Trust me, I know. My cousin is half Ukrani, and he explained to me the mindset you people have.

If you people think that you can take advantage of us, we will **** you like we have in history.

 

[Valeriu]

You do not engage in truth. It's fine. Your biggest claim to fame was to fight off the Turks. Guess what? In Central Asia, we do not want to fight your people, but If they come here, they are sent back in body bags. Very easy to understand.

We are not in A'stan to fight a nation but to build one and save it from the clutches of a radical group. Romanian casualties came from IED's or surprise blue on blue fire ,not direct battles.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

We are not in A'stan to fight a nation but to build one and save it from the clutches of a radical group. Romanian casualties came from IED's or surprise blue on blue fire ,not direct battles.

You can say whatever you like. If your country ever decide to fight with Pakistan it would be destroyed. Maybe you can sit on the shoulders of NATO or Russia, but your country can do nothing to mine. I have no problem with Romanian gypsy people, but who are you in the world to try an threaten us?

 

[Valeriu]

You can say whatever you like. If your country ever decide to fight with Pakistan it would be destroyed. Maybe you can sit on the shoulders of NATO or Russia, but your country can do nothing to mine. I have no problem with Romanian gypsy people, but who are in the world to try an threaten us?

You,re rambling,I haven,t threatened anyone.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

You,re rambling,I haven,t threatened anyone.

Of course. You are not fully Slavic, but a weak nation full of gypsies. Western Europeans come to your country to **** little homeless boys. What exactly can you say about your European values now?

 

[Valeriu]

Of course. You are not fully Slavic, but a weak nation full of gypsies. Western Europeans come to your country to **** little homeless boys. What exactly can you say about your European values now?

That I don't give 2 hoots on your uneducated ramblings and we,re not Slavic at all ?

 

[lastofthepatriots]

That I don't give 2 hoots on your uneducated ramblings ?

I might be uneducated, but I can still post a documentary about Western Europeans vacationing in Romania to **** little boys that are homeless. Should I post this documentary? Maybe I can be seen as an educated person once I provide the evidence.

 

[vostok]

We currently kicked your Russi asses out of Afghanistan, and now your son America is crying to us to leave Afghanistan. We have the best fighters in the entire world, because Muslims never fear death. You people want to live with some money and have good life. Trust me, I know. My cousin is half Ukrani, and he explained to me the mindset you people have.

If you people think that you can take advantage of us, we will **** you like we have in history.

Listen, I respect ancient peoples of the world and love their culture. But you did not kick any Russian ases. We came to Afganistan by request of the government, our army fulfilled combat tasks and then returned to the USSR by order fully organized. The only ases you are kicking - is your own.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Listen, I respect ancient peoples of the world and love their culture. But you did not kick any Russian ases. We came to Afganistan by request of the government, our army fulfilled combat tasks and then returned to the USSR by order fully organized. The only ases you are kicking - is your own.

Is this why Soviet Union broke apart like glass? You guys are almost as poor as rest of Central Asia. Russia is okay, but Ukraine is dirt poor. Do you feel like white Western European by insulting Muslims?

We live in our countries, but then European monkies come and **** with our country. Then our people go to Europe to **** with your people.

Leave us alone and be left alone. It's very simple.

 

[Valeriu]

I might be uneducated, but I can still post a documentary about Western Europeans vacationing in Romania to **** little boys that are homeless. Should I post this documentary? Maybe I can be seen as an educated person once I provide the evidence.

You can post what you want,I m sure there's even more terrible crimes going on in Romania but,that happens all over the world.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

You can post what you want,I m sure there's even more terrible crimes going on in Romania but,that happens all over the world.

I am not in interest of insulting people. I am Muslim and we don't insult anyone. We like to be left alone, and you can be left alone. It's very simple. But your people like to come in our countries to cause chaos. So why don't you guys just stay in your countries if you hate us so much?