Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Never again! Nie wieder! Plus jamais!!"

Migrant Deaths in Germany

Who knew Oury Jallow or Laye Konde? Who knows something about their
lives, the families they left behind, their feelings and their fears?
Who knows how they died and why?

On the 7th of January, two Africans died at the hands of the german
police. In germany, the 7th of January was just another day. Normal.
Simply another day which for many people belongs to the past and like
the past is forgotten. Nothing more and nothing less than another Friday
in the first month of a new year.

Other people don't have such short memories and they also don't forget.
What's more, there are some people for whom the 7th of January
represents and will continue to represent another day in the infamous
colonial history of this country and of this continent; people who can
only understand the death of two Africans to represent a continuation of
the past and the present. One single nightmare.
The facts:


Oury Jallow and Laye Konde, both from Sierra Leone, died because they
and their like are not welcomed in this country. They died because they
found themselves in a country that continues to say Auslander Raus;
they died because both the german state and the society do everything in
their means to isolate, exclude, destroy and expulse Oury, Laye and
many, many others like them.
Oury died tied to a bed in his police cell in the city of Dessau, burned
alive in what the authorities claim to have been a "suicide". Laye, on
the other hand, died far away from there, in the city of Bremen, his
lungs filled with a liquid forced into his body by the police who were
attempting to make him vomit out the drugs he was hiding.

Do you wish to have more information? Should we be more objective? How's
this: According to the newspaper/Die Zeit/ from the 9th of March,
[only January of this year] a right-wing extremist crime is committed
each hour*. Officially, 745 crimes and 39 acts of violence of the
extreme right were committed in all of Germany [...] According to last
year's statistics, there were a total of 7.943 crimes and 489 acts of
violence of the extreme right.Do you think Oury and Laye were included
in their statistics?

Confirmed in terms that all of us can understand, there is no doubt has
such a horrendous crime can be committed in silence, whereas the
authorities clearly are doing everything they can to cover up a crime
that has for a long time been a daily horror for many people of
non-European heritage.
But what we tell you now is nothing new. It is not new for you and it is
not new for us. And you, just like us, know it very well. Isn't this
what they call "normal"? Is this not the mundane, everyday situation,
even if not for you personally? But then again, you don't see it as your
problem. It happened to somebody else. When you read this -- if you read
this -- you will probably feel uncomfortable and maybe even upset. This is
also a normal reaction. You, just like us, are used to this indifference.

And now back to more objective information, published by the newspaper/TAZ,/which wrote: “according to a study of the conflict and violence
researcher Wilhelm Heitmeyer, the large, silent majority is amazingly
large. 60 percent of all germans believe that too many foreigners live
in this country. 69 percent are bothered by the fact that they are still
being associated with the crimes against the Jewish people. Of these 69
percent, half of them consider themselves to be part of the political
center.

Now, in Dessau, the attorney general is rejecting the possibility of a
second, independent autopsy, which could confirm such unanswered
questions like: were his wrists really broken or not? Now, although they
appear to have "changed their minds", the authorities are creating
difficulties for a public religious ceremony to commemorate the life and
death of just another African whom to many was a brother and a friend.

The friends of Oury have said they will carry out the procession with or
without the permission of the authorities and that they will continue to
denounce what is really happening in the city of Dessau. Since
maintaining such a strong position often times means that those who
refuse to bow their heads are left alone, it is even more important that
we share in their fraternal support to ensure that Oury receives a
dignified treatment in this country at least once.

One last word. It doesn't cost you neither too much time nor money to
support the friends of Oury in making sure he at least finds that in
death which this country has denied to him in life: respect. It is just
one single day of your normal life. Come to Dessau!

*We demand:*

- *A second and independent autopsy *

- *An independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding Oury's death *

- *A judicial process against the responsible police for homicide *

- *Reparations for the family of Oury Jallow*

- *An end to police brutality and control*

JUSTICE!!!*

Oury Jalloh: Elf Wochen nach dem Feuertod eines Afrikaners:

http://www.thevoiceforum.org/dessau>

http://www.thevoiceforum.org/dessau

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