How many more Chechen Kids have to die ?

dublin | racism & migration related issues | event notice Sunday September 16, 2007 23:47 by maciej roszak - free caucasus committee roszak at o2 dot pl 0879667317

Thursday, 20th of September, at 2 PM

picket in front of the Polish Embassy

5 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Last Thursday, 13th of September, three Chechen girls, aged 6, 10 and 13, have died of exposure in the Bieszczady Mountains, in southern Poland, trying to illegally cross the borders of Ukraine, Polish and Slovakian (EU). Border guards were leaded to the childrens' remains by their mother, a 36-year-old Chechen national who had early been stopped with a two-year-old baby. The family had spent four days in the cold and wet.

Probably the family had intended to cross into Slovakia through Poland, and then into Austria.
Almost 3,600 Chechens have applied for refugee status in Poland this year, most of them will never get it. Polish authorities explains that Chechen people are safely in their country! The reports of the Amnesty International shows that Chechnya is a country ruled by fear and terror. Hundreds of people are missing and nobody can feel safe.

How many more Chechen children have to die, when the Polish and EU authorities will at last change their anti-refugee policies? We demand opening of the EU border for people who are running away from the war and death danger. Stop hypocrisy of the EU governments which say more about human rights and at the same time they let the victims of war die during the crossing the EU borders illegaly.