Kurds Refugees Have the Right to Live in Peace without Persecution
To those who are concerned about refugees status all over the world,
Two Kurds
refugees; Ahmet Kazankiran and his son, Ramazan, were
detained when they reported to the immigration office at
Shinagawa, Tokyo to have their provisional release renewed
Monday, January 17, 2005. Despite their U.N. recognition as
"mandate refugees", Japanese Justice Ministry's Immigration
Bureau deported them to Turkey next day. This is an
unprecedented inhuman treatment. Plese protest against
Japanese government, embassy or its affiliated facilities
there to stop such infringement of refugees human right.
No
Kurds from Turkey have been given refugee status by Japanese
government so far, while the number of people who were
granted official refugee status or special residence permits
in Japan in 2003 was just 26 and may be only 16 in 2004.
Japanese
immigration officials visited Turkey last spring and
cooperated with Turkish security authorities such as army
and police to "examine" whether their refugee plea was
valid. The personal information of Kurds refugees stay in
Japan was leaked to secret police there, the risk of
persecution, therefore, increased if they were enforced to
deport to Turkey.
Suffering
persecution by Japanese government, 12 members of the
Kazankirans and the Erdal Dogans, another Kurdish
asylum-seeker with Iranian refugees Jamal Saberi staged a
protest sit-in in front of United Nations University in
Tokyo's Shibuya Ward since last July 13th. The 72-days
sit-in protest action, demanding refugee status in Japan or
at least to have sent them to a third country, however,
crushed by security gurds
and riot
police.
The office
of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has described the
deportation as "contrary to Japan's obligations under
international law" and said it contradicts the humanitarian
aid Japan extends to refugees and disaster survivors abroad.
"This is an embarrassing incident, internationally speaking.
The Justice Ministry not only ignored the U.N., but
challenged and insulted it. "
In spite of
a signatory country of the U.N. Convention Relating to the
Status of Refugees, Japan has neglected its duties to
cooperate with the UNHCR by deporting the two Kurds. Such
kind of brutal action will no doubt stain Japan's position
in the international community. As a oppressing human right
country, Japan is no position to seek permanet member of the
U.N. Security Council.
The
remaining five member of Kazankiran's family are required to
appear before the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Shinagawa on
Monday, January 24. For them and also the Dogans orders for
deportation have also been issued. "I'm afraid that we will
all be deported just like Ahmet and Ramazan," Erdal Dogan
said. "All of our lives depend on this."
We have
staged protest actions against Justice Ministry, Immigration
Bureau and Turkish Embassy here in Japan. Please take action
agaist xenophobic Japan. (N.B. Save Their Lives !
Kazankirans & Dogans Kurdish 2 Families Struggle in Japan &
in Turkey
http://www.mkimpo.com/diary/2005/kurd_2fam_2005.html
The
supportors meeting of 2 kurdish-refugee families
http://homepage3.nifty.com/kds/ )
Stop futher
deportation of refugees !
Change
chauvinistic Koizumi immigration policy !
Let all
refugees have full human right !
PROTESTS
TO:
Minister of
Justice: Minister NOONO Chieko
Ministry of
Justice: 1-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8977,
Japan
Fax: +81 3
3592 7088/+81 3 5511 7200 (via Public Information & Foreign
Liaison
Office)
E-mail:
webmaster@moj.go.jp
Friday,
January 21, 2005
Tsumura
Hiroshi
Free Jamal
Campaigne
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~pyonpyon/fjc/j.htm
Jamal-san
Kyuen-kai
http://www2.bbweb-arena.com/jamalq/index.html
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