Church Condolence Letters

SEIZURE,




(from http://www2.azionecattolica.it/content/sequestro-eritrei-nostra-vergogna)

Antonio Martino


What is happening in the heart of the Sinai desert is a disgrace. 250 African refugees, having been rejected last May off the coast of Lampedusa, and having spent some months in Libyan prisons for weeks they are prisoners of a band of marauders that waiting for a ransom torture, mutilation, rape and already killed many of them trying to reach the Israeli border. All in the stillness of the Egyptian government  guilty that he came to know where they are required to deny the prisoners  and international institutions in all Europe, UN and everything else, and many countries "exporting democracy" and ready to ' intervention when there is some nearby oil well or any pipeline or any other economic interest to be safeguarded.
The only contact with the hijackers, and Don Zerai Mussie, the priest Eritrean President Ngo Habeshia, holding clandestine relations with the refugees through cell phones that they make available to the kidnappers of their victims to call it anyone, family or humanitarian organizations, is able to send them the money to pay the ransom demanded ($ 8,000 each). The same Don
Mussie Zerai again last Sunday, host of the live broadcast "In His Image" on RAI 1, brought their voices to our ears and our minds. The latest information provided to say that contacts between the chiefs of the Egyptian Sinai and the security services, to get to a release, but optimism reigns not, in fact. Only yesterday, two deacons were killed were among the Orthodox 250. The prison guards have killed two men in front of all others because they were accused of having raised the alarm. According
collected by Don Mussie Zerai, there are also many people dying among those kidnapped, including pregnant women and children. Their conditions are very severe for the continuous beatings. In addition, some days are denied them water, to the point that many are forced to drink their own urine. There are reports, finally, transfer to another person, disappeared from the group and most likely brought from somewhere in order to undergo the removal of organs, to pay the ransom.
The situation is much worse. "We can no longer wait-time diplomats said Don Zerai - because people even dying because of hunger and thirst. Faced with this real barbarism, we ask that the international community to condemn this, and calls the Egyptian government to act decisively to subtract these lives from the hands of traffickers and their accomplices in the region of Sinai. "
Just yesterday, a letter was sent to a number of Italian MPs to the European Community to take note of the responsibilities of the Egyptian government, which certainly exist, who always responded yesterday but - in truth, with some justification - that the original responsibility for this dramatic residing in the state governments, primarily in Europe, bordering the Mediterranean and that have adopted policies for immigration and indiscriminately extremely restrictive, so as to prevent de facto asylum seekers even to get somewhere to prove that he is entitled to that status.