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.
