Looking behind the label

After years of working with refugees and immigrants, I would like to write a note in honour of Refugee Week, even though I am bound to repeat myself.

In the light of the current situation where the Danish Government and authorities is taking actions to expel our approx. 250 Iraqi asylum seekers, I would just like to say the following to the people who decide and act out cruelty on behalf of the danish people:

You sent our troops into a country to fight a war to protect our democratic rights. Even though this country never was a thread and never has attacked any of the Western communities - especially not Denmark. And even though it was not agreed on by the very conventions you yourself made and signed.

You lied to your people only to nurse the military and economic relationship between us and the United States of America.

You have attacked civilians in that country and behaved in a manner that is not in sync with the democracy and civilised ways you claim to preserve and protect.

You have been treating the refugees from that country in obvious, in-human manors, trapping them in asylum centers for years on end and breaking down the little integrity they may have had left from the years of oppression and war in the country from where they were born.

You decide on the safety in this country without attending expeditions or even respecting documents made from experts as the UNHCR which state that it is not safe for people to return. You also display your lack of knowledge about the cultures and clans of that country which is necessary to make such decisions.

You now continue to force families apart - now in plain sight. You do not even care to hide the fact that you have been seperating children from their parents for years, just because they landed in our country by chance, and got trapped between our rigid system and the poor conditions in the country you yourself helped to bring down.

Do you know that there is a diagnose (described in ICD-10) to cover the lack of empathy that you display?

You claim to take back Denmark? Here you go... you can have it...!