Words break in, sound stops... Eyes never remain dry. Children's lives were the price of forced return - the blog of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee writes in bold letters , and I have a bad acid. Would time have stopped? Or is it just the well-proven method of emotional blackmail that greets us again, just like in 2015, when a photo of a Syrian boy lying dead on a Greek beach went viral?
First of all, let's state: life is sacred, unique and unrepeatable, so every life counts. Each. And when a child dies, it evokes special attention and sympathy from the person, but dealing with the death of a child is more than distasteful. And then let's look at what actually happened, without neglecting objectivity, which, unfortunately, the Helsinki Observer, sprawling on 444, neglected this time as well.
In 2017, i.e. four years before the Taliban came to power, an Afghan family of 14 arrived in Serbia, from where the mother wanted to cross to Croatia with her six children. The rest of the family was waiting in Serbia during this time. Helsinki does not explicitly state that the entire tour was illegal, but it is clear from the context. So the rest of the family, including the male members, waited while the mother tried to go to Croatia, but the Croatian police stopped them, took her back to the border by car, and suggested that they follow the train tracks back to Serbia. After that, one of the children, six-year-old Madina, was run over by a train.
However, the family, which has now shrunk to 13 people, crossed the Serbian-Croatian border again in the spring of 2018 and asked for asylum, and the authorities placed them in the accommodation in Tovarnik. Helsinki Vigilő writes about the following:
"but their right to free movement and legal representation was restricted. The detention of the now nine children and their parents lasted two months. Even then, they did not receive protection from the Croatian authorities, so after several attempts they went on to Slovenia."
And the continuation of the story takes place according to the usual method known to the point of boredom: the Hungarian Helsinki Committee participates in the Strasbourg proceedings as an intervener "in order to promote the cause of asylum-seeking victims", during which Croatia is condemned. But we note that the detention could not have been too strict if the 13 simply went on to Slovenia; nine children, two parents, and two more relatives (?), whose exact family status is obscure.
However, the most beautiful finding is yet to come:
"The practice of mass repatriation, which was the first to be legalized by the Hungarian government, certainly greatly contributed to the fact that other countries on the Balkan route are acting in a similar way. This inhumane practice led to Madina's death and other tragedies.”
Come on, this is how we arrive at the thorough, independent and objective investigation of the cause-and-effect relationships to the point that the Hungarian government - which Orbán operates under manual control - is responsible for the death of a six-year-old Afghan child in Serbia. With this much power, they could have written that Orbán is actually responsible for all the civilian victims - including many children - who lost their lives as a result of the stealthy drone attacks carried out by the Americans . Of course, they did not die in a foreign country - where they were staying illegally - under parental supervision, in an accident, but in their own home, as a collateral loss, so to speak.
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't even dare to analyze the legal aspects of the case, but even if you think about it with common sense, a few questions come to your mind, to which Helsinki, unfortunately, is not only reassuring, but does not provide any answers. Right here is the responsibility of the parent(s) - endangering a minor? - his question. Or is there no such question, because the European Union is that wonderful place where the citizens and leaders of the member states are immediately responsible for any Muslim minor, after they have given up their right to protect their state's borders? Or: why did the family of 14 decide to leave Afghanistan, which was miserable but not yet declared a war zone? If they were refugees, why didn't they stop in the first safe country? Which country was the real destination? In Serbia, why did only the mother move on with her six children, why not the others? And I know it's an exaggeration, but it's a legitimate question from the point of view of follow-up, which EU country do they live in now? Did they manage to integrate, do the parents work, what is their profession, what is their education, did the family learn the language of the host country? Or are the 13 people (and those born since then) swayed by the host country's social network? And I don't even dare to ask if any member of the family has come into conflict with the trivial local laws?
Of course, we will never get the concrete answers, but the experiences of the past six years do help us see the big picture . For example, also in the fall of 2017, the Turkish coast guard arrested two boats full of migrants and tried to send them back to Turkey, but the Afghan passenger of one of the boats decided that it would be appropriate to throw a few-month-old child into the water, or more precisely, to threaten the Turkish coast guard if they he is still vetted (meaning: they act in accordance with the law) and he is not allowed to dock illegally on the European continent. We can see the moment of blackmail in the picture.
Dr. Cheryl Benard, whose works include the book "Civil Democratic Islam" found in Osama Bin Laden's library at the time of his capture, has done more in-depth research on Afghan immigrants. Following the work of the researcher and publicist, Emese Lévai writes in detail about the differentiation of Muslim immigrants, focusing especially on those coming from Afghanistan.
"Not long after ( after the arrival of the Afghans - ed. ), the number of crimes in certain host settlements multiplied, and among these cases, one type stood out: violence against women. The receiving countries could have blamed the cases on the criminals (as it is customary in states of law), but since these were mainly Afghan refugees, the courts and investigators began to systematically cover up the cases."
In the meantime, the statistics have also become public in some countries, such as Austria, as a result of which ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz in his interview with Bild , and in early August, a round pretzel refused the request of Manizha Bakhtari, the ambassador of Afghanistan in , that they be suspended. the deportation of Afghan refugees who have not been granted refugee status.
In countries where a large number of Muslims, including a significant number of Afghan immigrants, have to live together, the question naturally arises, what is the motivation for the crimes? According to what logic does a group of people - basically Afghans, who according to police statistics are responsible for about half of sexual abuses, the second largest group are Syrians, with 10 percent - who have been accepted by a country, yet they, in broad daylight, on trains, in frequented parks, or are they trying to rape women at crowded festivals?
When Benard asked what motivated the perpetrators, an Afghan interpreter said:
the motivation is the deep contempt for the "soft" European society, which they believe is incapable of punishing them.
For them, women are just as much a legitimate prey as anything else that comes to them from weaker Europeans: housing, money, food, anything. Of course, the question remains, why is it not enough to live for free on the money of the host country, and why do you have to be in the spotlight for rape committed in broad daylight? What connects the victims? According to the author, failure:
because the sight of a free-loading, violent fraudster with a beautiful mother or a happy, satisfied university girl on the verge of a great career is the most annoying. These are the life situations that a deceived state can never give them, these are the happy people against whom they will forever remain losers, so it is "logical" that they want to cripple them for the rest of their lives.
And then, haven't we talked about the fact that when we say someone here in Europe, Afghan, they are Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, or representatives of one of the other ethnic groups living in the country? Because Afghanistan is a colorful mosaic of ethnic groups, and these groups certainly do not live in peace with each other, and they naturally bring their antagonisms with them.
But we also talked little about the practice of bacha bazi (boy game) , which experts noticed already in the 1980s, when the mujahideen commanders fighting the Soviets recruited young boys from the villages for the purpose of sexual relations, i.e. pedophilia. This was also the reason why popular anger called the Taliban to life in the mid-1990s. The rich and prominent Pashtuns (an Afghan ethnic group of 13 million people) like to dress their boys in women's clothes and make them dance at their events, but sometimes even marry them. However, after these good Afghans acted as allies in the fight against the Taliban, the American soldiers had to acknowledge that they were fighting for the noble cause hand in hand with pedophiles. Later interviews and court testimony revealed that soldiers and marines were ordered not to intervene, even when Afghan allies were raping the boys on military bases. Because it's part of their culture. For some, however, the thread broke and they had to face military punishment, like the two Americans who beat an Afghan commander in the head because he chained a little boy to his bed. However, from the point of view of the American strategy, the USA had to cooperate with those who did wrong, but did not pose a threat to national security, as opposed to the Taliban.
In light of all this, the news is almost unworthy of mention that the 35-year-old Afghan Sanger Ahmadi, who was deported from Germany in 2017 after the police linked him to at least 30 crimes in five federal states as the leader of the Lions-Cartel criminal gang, threatened that if they will continue to annoy you
inciting his army of about 100 Afghan men on the deportation list against the police.
And even this is not the whole picture, but it helps to shed some light on the repeatedly tendentious, one-sided involvement of the Helsinki Committee in the case of an otherwise regrettable accident which, looking at the whole story, is just another nail in the coffin of the European way of life.
Featured image: Madina / Source: Facebook, Helsinki Observer