Il viaggio disumano dei migranti africani verso l’Europa. Tra violenze, abusi, e incarcerazione arbitrari in carceri libiche finanziate dall’Italia. Esseri umani comprati e rivenduti, rinchiusi in container, picchiati e sfruttati da poliziotti libici e trafficanti sudanesi, decisi di andare avanti per raccontare il prezzo of our "West."
Flore Murard-Yovanovitch
All maps of Africa, they will never talk about this trip. Inhumane. The torture and abuse by police of Gaddafi on African migrants attempt the journey to Europe, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and other sub-Saharan countries. Imagining is the risk of attarversare the largest desert in the world, but never to be traded, "sold" as goods, arbitraily held in Libyan prisons. Slow down in the "state" of no law, border "outsourcing" of Fortress Europe.
It took the investigative documentary "Like a Man on Earth" by Dagmawi Yimer, Andrea Segre and Richard Biadene to reveal the abuses and the actual deportations taking place on Libyan soil, by paid by the Italian government. A scandal for months remained in total silence of the government and the media. It took the forced repatriation of more than 500 African migrants recent days to Tripoli and the Italian-Libyan joint patrols to break the taboo. If the film has managed to see was through word of mouth, to spread from the bottom, a choice aware of the directors, reality of hundreds of associations: the extraordinary mobilization of civil society that resists xenophobia.
It 's a journey of several months, but in life you have printed on the skin. Inside. Dagmawi Yimer (Dag), a young Ethiopian, and Ethiopians and Eritreans other survivors of the journey, "arrived in Rome to the Italian school Asinitas Onlus god decide to testify. Dag studied law in Addis Ababa, where political repression and the dream of a rule of law in Europe, have pushed to emigrate. E 'landed on Lampedusa, worn on a boat packed in 2006, after months of oppression, multi-stops and steps to various detention centers. Violence. All arbitrary. Exceeded its history, has become director Dag, to collect other people's history and to commemorate.
It 's a film built around the word and listening to patient experiences of their peers often inaudible. Weaving memories, it was only possible by the shared terrible journey, from the intimacy of a shared language. The stories are told among migrants in first person, without the filter of an outside view. A box in a kitchen, on the brink of the unspeakable.
Pictures. Intassamenti bodies on trucks across the desert between Sudan and Libya - deadly, for those who, for too crowded, it falls - as Tasfae and Yared, and other men and women abandoned for weeks in the middle of the Sahara. Thirst. Hours. Almost surreal image of the tracks that are lost in anything, prophetic, to say all this adventure of the unknown. Before the worse in the closing metal containers to be brought more to South Vere and simple "deportations."
From "man" become "commodity". The camera lingers on an empty container in detail in the desert. It stinks all'improviso fear, vomit and piss that you do him. Choke. And one of the most effective plans for the film to remind all gone, dead of thirst, beaten to death in desert abandonnati, or passed out into thin air. A Libyan prison.
Kufrah. A name that still shake the rare survivors. Five cells vertically, the toilet in the middle. Without water, "even the beasts could be there, now you think they are still 700" to rot there. " Men and women who have done nothing wrong, just to "emigrate". On the walls of his incarceration, the countries of origin: Ghana, Mali, all of Africa migrants went here. And these writings: "If this is to emigrate, it is better death." A "temporary custody", where you come, without trial, and where you never know, when you get out. If you come out, paradox, if you have the "chance" of being "bought" by a smuggler Sudan. "I was arrested seven times, imprisoned, and sold 5 times," says John, one of the witnesses. He adds, still incredulous, "Therefore, being 'sold', I would never have imagined. Because I'm a man. " It is in fact real human trafficking, a business that flourishes, $ 400 each for every "step".
Kufrah, è uno dei campi di detenzione finanziato dall’Italia in Libia. Gli ultimi “accordi bilaterali”, rifirmati ogni anno tra i due paesi, come l’ ultimo Trattao Italia Libia firmato a febbraio scorso, prevedevano dalla parte dello stato italiano, formazione delle “guardie nazionale, e “assistenza tecnica” per il controllo delle frontiere: “radar, gommoni, …e 1000 buste per i cadaveri”. Gli stati membri delegano la responsabilità del controllo, in scambio di accordi commerciali (e non indifferente petrolio libico) ai paesi del Maghreb, che non brillano certo per la difesa dei diritti umani. Tutti i mezzi sono permessi.
When the documentary goes to the direct comparison with policy makers as Frattini, Foreign Minister, or the coordinator of Frontex (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders), said the "flow". Never men. The European Agency has a budget of 71 million euros, to close a blind eye to human rights violations taking place in Libya, a country that has never signed the International Convention on Refugees, the Geneva where he ...
And when time, the word can no longer say, there are looks, still incredulous. Immense dignity and decency of the witnesses. The rapes, the laws in their faces. Are not anger, only want one thing: that violations are reported and stopped. As it says Tighist young Ethiopian woman of 23 years, "so that no one should ever do this kind of journey."
All of us should see this film, is a moral issue. To shake our conscience, to be Italian. It 's Europe.
LIKE A MAN ON EARTH
Andrea Segre and Dagmawi Yimer
in collaboration with Richard Biadene
duration: 68 '
