" I appeal to the Italian Government and the Libyan on behalf of all Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians who are suffering at this time in Libya. I know very well what it means to be in the hands of the Libyan police. Using the last words I have left, because the words do not end when no change occurs. I feel helpless before these cruel governments do not know what it means to be deprived of liberty for a single day, but for two, three or four years ...
I've lived on my skin : ill-treatment in prisons Libya, the blows, beatings, insults police officers Libyans. Also I have been deported in a container, for a day and a half journey to the prison Kufrah, with more than 110 people, crowded like sardines. With us there were eight women and a child of Eritrea four years. His name was Adam. Who knows what happened to that child, I wonder if he managed to escape from the trap Italian-Libyan, who knows if his mother was not raped by Libyan police officers in front of him ... If he survived, now has eight, and slowly begin to understand that kind of world is reserved for him and many others like him.
Why all this violence, this hatred against us? It is true, it is right to ensure that il ben essere di uno, l’altro debba soffrire, debba pagare il prezzo?
Veniamo da paesi dove l’Italia non ha ancora fatto i conti con i suoi massacri durante il periodo coloniale e dove ancora oggi, dopo mezzo secolo, usa i libici per combattere gli eritrei, come all’epoca delle colonie usava gli eritrei per combattere i libici. È vero che la libertà di questi miei fratelli minaccia il benessere dei cittadini europei? È vero quindi che un accordo per il gas e il petrolio vale di più delle vite umane e della loro libertà naturale? Perché l’Italia, da paese civile, non ha previsto nell’accordo con la Libia il minimo rispetto dei diritti “inviolabili” human beings instead of turning a blind eye and claim to have blocked migration by sea? It reminds me
the same hypocrisy with which Mussolini made his people believe that Italy had swept the Abyssinians on without saying anything on the means that led to those victories, or tons and tons of gas used to kill civilians without pity . The tone of the government is the same now as then, and is the same as the reaction of people.
When I think back to Adam, the child of four years who was with us on the container, I wonder: What was his crime? I remember that sometimes the driver of the container (Iveco) stopped to eat or her needs, while 110 people were screaming for the infernal heat of the Sahara, the lack of air, which hardly came as the truck was moving. Little Adam were keeping close to the hole from where he entered a little 'air to breathe ... and who was in the bottom of the container is desperately waving, screaming, crying. You can still see mass deportations in the container?
When we were arrested then, the Libyans have asked us why we were in Libya and what we wanted. We were simply the prey of the police, we were women from rape and beaten by men. A few days ago I met a person in a situation that I will not describe. This person works in Tripoli and told me that one of the last rejected into the sea to Libya was a girl aged 22 was raped by Libyan police officers when arrested. Eventually he managed to escape by bribing a guard, but now she is pregnant and does not want to give birth to a son-in does not even know his father ...
Why do not you react first it gets too late? Why all this indifference to the suffering of others, moreover, caused by Italy itself? Where is the civility of a country that is funding a third party to do the dirty work and wash their hands like Pilate? When they stop Italy the "principal" of this violence?
it happens then, after the "deportation" the Libyan police officers we sold for 30 dinars each (about 18 euro) to intermediaries who then reported it to the coast.
We also have parents who always remember us, and crying together thinking of the suffering that we experience, the beatings and insults that we take. But we will have justice for all that we endure. Today we pay the price that your governments have agreed to pay to enjoy the "people" energy security. But the tears and the blood shed will not be forgotten.
Using the last words that I have remained, energy after the last two years of battle on this issue but I hope to have more. I toured Italy, attending hundreds of meetings and screenings (of "Like a man on earth", ed.) And I thank all those who showed me around their anger and their shame of being represented by these governments are hypocrites .
But I wonder: if I cry from here that I did not listen, let alone my brothers who are into the mouth of the wolf. But I still cry the same and say, Italy you who are civil and powerful look at these people and remember what you did to their grandparents. "
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