#usa war crimes
23.02.2016 victoria park, athens/greeece. i met mohammad while i was at victoria park, a place in athens where a lot of the refugees stay during the day that have no other place to go. the camps in and near athens are full, so there are tenthousands of refugees with no place to go. mohammad is from afghanistan. he studied engineering, speaks a profound english and worked as a translator for amerian forces, as well for the eeas (eu election observation missions). like numberless afghan translators he was promised to get a special visa from the usa as well as from the eu, because of the high danger this translators have to face because of the taliban and like numberless other translators he was betrayed by his employers. since it is almost impossible to get through the process of being accepted for the special visa process, it needs years and many bureaucratic steps to climb. also the usa and the eu now use for years “agency´s” to employ a lot of the translators, so they can´t be directly connected to them. this way the translators don´t even gain the right for the special visa. the usa and the eu know very well that working for them is putting their employers in a life risking position, since the taliban kill everyone they know helping the usa and eu. same story with mohammed, he was warned by a friend that he should leave afghanistan asap, since the taliban are looking for him to kill him. so he went to pakistan first, but he was not save there as well and so, after a long trip through several country´s, he went on the boat-route to greece, with the final goal to reach germany, since he has a uncle living there for decades. he was on a boat with 53 other refugees, helping them in the registration process with translating and thats what he does now as well in athens. since he is a single man from afghanistan and the eu just declared afghanistan for a save 3rd country, forcing macedonia not to let pass any refugees from afghanistan coming from greece anymore, now he is stucked in athens. he have no place to go, no governmental institution that take care of him and no legal way to go to germany to his relative. all he want´s is to help as volunteer, finish his studies and live a normal live. he is smart, friendly and very polite, cares about others. apart from the illegal actions from the eu states, breaking every international treaty regarding refugees, this betray of the afghan translators, people who risk their lives to help our governments and army´s, is one of the most fucked up actions our governments take. i feel deeply ashamed that this is also done in my name, since i am a citizen of the eu.
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