We make a clear stance against the racist migration policy of the Dutch state. Civil servants like Heida and Geeroms are directly co-responsible for the daily torture of thousands of people behind prison walls and for the many deportations of people who will meet a sure death in the country they are forced to go to. Heida and Geeroms will most likely claim they are only doing their job and that all these crimes are not their responsibility. But they do make themselves complicit to a colonial system of repression and exclusion. We hold them responsible for their contributions to the Dutch policies and practices of exclusion, detention and deportation of migrants. No one should make a living out of this inhumane system. No longer they can do their “jobs” in the anonymity and pretended innocence they’ve been hiding in so far.
We’ll keep on fighting for a world without borders and an end to the capitalist system that ruins the world and keeps billions of people in the grip of poverty, hunger, war, oppression and exploitation.´´ (1)
Since I share the political views and protest of ”the Visitors” fully, I have
placed a Statement of solidarity on Indymedia Netherlands,
in Dutch and below the Dutch statement, in English.
To my regret and undoubtedly that of the Visitors, the protest
action in The Hague [against Jos Willemsz Geeroms , senior advisor at the Immigration and Naturalisation services ] was done at the wrong
address, with as a consequence, that the house of an 80 year old woman
was painted with slogans. [2]
I think some flowers and excuses should be done, because it was
never the intention, that completely innocent people should pay
the price.
Only those head responsible for the scandalous Dutch asylum policy [3],
like a director migration policy at the Department of Security and Justice
or a senior advisor at the Immigration and Naturalisation services
[IND] should be confronted.
Wrong address, good cause!
By the way, the second address [of Mr Harke Heida, director migration policy at the Department of Security and Justice] was the good address indeed.
See below my Statement of solidarity.
REVEALING A CRIME IS NOT A CRIME
Astrid Essed
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
OMROEP WEST
MET VIDEO: 80 JARIGE VROUW SLACHTOFFER
VAN ACTIE TEGEN NEDERLANDS ASIELBELEID
5 OCTOBER 2014
[3]
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
NETHERLANDS: THEY CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
2 JULY 2014
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
DISPATCHES: DEPORTED TO DANGER IN SOMALIA
19 NOVEMBER 2013
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/
LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL
OF AMSTERDAM ZUID-OOST ABOUT THEIR REFUSAL
TO PROVIDE BASIC NEEDS FOR THE REJECTED REFUGEES
OF THE VLUCHTGARAGE
ASTRID ESSED
REACTION ON INDYMEDIA NETHERLANDS
OF THE VISITORS/REVEALING A CRIME IS NOT A CRIME
”The Visitors”, who have sprayed painted slogans and threw paint at the homes of Harke Heida (Rijswijk), director migration policy at the Department of Security and Justice and Jos Willemsz Geeroms (The Hague), senior advisor at the Immigration and Naturalisation services (IND) and releasemanager for its IT-system INDiGO.
policy, locking innocent refugees up, whose only crime is to have
run away from war and persecution and to deport them to the very
war countries from which they fled.
have risked their life for asylum and a better life, since they can’t
enter EU through safe and regular routes?
actions of the sort of the Visitors.