L’8 marzo “clandestino” delle donne afghane che resistono ai Talebani
Nonostante le difficoltà e le minacce, le attiviste celebrano la giornata per ricordare che il cambiamento è sempre possibile. Anche in un Paese dove oggi violenze domestiche e persino l’uccisione di una figlia non vengono puniti.
Buio. Temperature polari, neve, fango e ancora buio. Di sera la città scompare nell’oscurità. L’elettricità c’è raramente. Le luci stradali e quelle dentro le case sono spente. I passi incerti degli uomini per strada, come fantasmi. Resti di una vita che non c’è più. Miliziani ovunque, posti di blocco. Sono vestiti meglio i Talebani: buone divise, mezzi potenti, armi efficienti, ereditati dall’esercito e dagli americani. È questa la Kabul che ritrova Rehana, militante della Revolutionary association of the women of Afghanistan (Rawa) dopo una lunga assenza. Nemmeno nelle case si sta al sicuro. I miliziani arrivano, sono una cinquantina. Circondano un quartiere, chiudono le strade. Poi entrano nelle abitazioni e perquisiscono, buttano all’aria tutto. Dicono di cercare armi ma rovistano anche nella biancheria delle donne. Alcune tra le nostre amiche attiviste hanno subito questa avventura. Se sei da sola in casa, convocano un testimone maschio altrimenti non potrebbero entrare. Mostrano a tutti che hanno il controllo del Paese, seminano paura. E ci riescono benissimo.
La paura è entrata infatti nella pelle di tutti. Rehana racconta di averla davanti agli occhi ogni giorno quando prende l’autobus. Ha tempo di osservare dalla sua postazione di donna, schiacciata con le altre, in fondo. I posti buoni sono per gli uomini. Uomini spenti, sguardi opachi. Ascolta la desolazione, l’avvilimento, le storie delle donne. Si scambiano lo sconforto. Non c’è lavoro, non c’è da mangiare, niente per scaldarsi, non possono comprare nemmeno un pezzo di sapone per lavarsi. Le mamme si preoccupano per le figlie. Troppo vuoto nella mente. I disturbi psichici aumentano. Non c’è scuola, né lavoro, né distrazioni, né vita sociale. I Talebani si sono mangiati i loro sogni. Chiuse in casa, spesso una sola stanza, da mesi non possono uscire. È pericoloso: i miliziani possono portarsele via.
Dopo il devastante terremoto che ha colpito Turchia e Siria il 6 febbraio molti hanno preso d’assalto l’aeroporto di Kabul, con l’obiettivo di salire sugli aerei che partono per portare soccorso: file di automobili come nell’agosto 2021, tanti venivano anche da altre province. La Turchia è la meta da raggiungere a qualsiasi costo: i Talebani sono spiazzati, fanno fatica ad arginare l’assalto, si spara fino a tarda sera. La gente, in città, pensa che ci sia stato un attentato. Khader non è riuscito a partire: “Comunque qui si muore. Preferisco perdere la vita sotto le macerie di un terremoto che qui”.
Nel buio delle strade succede di tutto e al mattino si trovano i cadaveri. Il 9 febbraio, i Talebani hanno dichiarato di averne raccolti 148 nel corso del mese precedente. Si muore di freddo, di fame, di droga, per mano talebana, per l’aggressione da parte di un criminale, per omicidio, per attacchi suicidi.
La stessa cupa prigione è saldamente installata nella mente degli uomini. Sahar, insegnante, racconta cos’è successo nel suo quartiere a una famiglia che conosce di vista. Un padre, Faiz, ama sua figlia quindicenne (così dice): bella, istruita, allegra, ne è fiero. La sorveglia costantemente: lei è preziosa, il suo migliore affare. La vende in sposa, con suo grande profitto, a un suo collega, un uomo rispettabile, più anziano di lui.
Lei, Zahra, invece, ha altri progetti. È innamorata e si vede di nascosto con il suo fidanzato Amid, progettano la fuga. Ora che il padre l’ha promessa, non esce più. Il ragazzo di notte riesce a entrare nella sua stanza, vuole vederla. Sono vicini, si tengono le mani. Faiz, padre che ama sua figlia, controlla. La vita di Zahra gli appartiene, l’affare è già combinato. Tutta la casa controlla, anche i muri, gli scricchiolii, i pavimenti: tutte spie di Faiz. Allarmato, entra nella stanza, Amid scappa dalla finestra. Faiz prende il suo fucile e gli spara, ma ormai il ragazzo è sparito nel buio.
Così, si gira, con la furia negli occhi, mentre la figlia gli urla che vuole sposare Amid, solo lui. Non ci pensa molto, riempie il corpo della sua bambina di pallottole. Zahra viene uccisa. Il padre solleva il cadavere, così leggero e lo getta nel cortile. I vicini si affacciano, le donne urlano. Faiz è ancora lì, con il fucile in mano e spinge via con i piedi il corpo della figlia. I vicini, spaventati, denunciano l’omicidio alle autorità. Eccoli, i “giudici”, con il turbante di traverso, armati fino ai denti. Gli occhi accesi da chissà quale delirio. Vedono il corpo della ragazza, nessuno ha osato spostarlo. Entrano in casa dove la madre non smette di singhiozzare. Parlano con Faiz. Ascoltano, annuiscono. I vicini spiano dalle finestre. Escono nel cortile per assistere alla “giustizia talebana”’. Ecco, ora sarà frustato, arrestato, ucciso, si dicono. Se lo porteranno via. Se lo merita. Ma i Talebani si complimentano con lui, gli danno pacche sulle spalle, lo lodano senza ritegno: “Hai fatto il tuo dovere. Ora il tuo onore è salvo e la sharia rispettata. Tua figlia era una puttana”. Giustizia è fatta.
Oggi, in Afghanistan, i reati contro le donne non hanno nemmeno la dignità di essere delitti, sono comportamenti governati dalla sharia. Giustificati, accettati, accolti dentro la vita di ogni giorno. I codici cambiano e sono i Talebani a dettarli. La giustizia è sprofondata nel fanatismo. Oggi, nel silenzio del mondo, i Talebani fanno quello che vogliono. Impongono le loro pene: amputazioni, lapidazioni, frustate. E la voce delle donne, inascoltata, perde forza e si prosciuga. Sulle leggi che proteggevano le donne i Talebani non si esprimono nemmeno: per loro non sono mai esistite. Basta la sharia. Copre ogni caso sottoposto alla giustizia. La violenza degli uomini non è più un crimine, tanto meno quella domestica, non è oggetto di alcuna sanzione, è colpa delle donne che non hanno saputo servire bene i loro mariti. L’impunità nutre gli abusi, si annida nelle case, diventa a poco a poco la regola, un tarlo, una malattia. Il triste potere di annichilire devasta il cervello e l’anima degli uomini. Imprigiona la loro mente più del corpo delle donne.
“Per i Talebani le donne non valgono nulla e tutte le decisioni vengono prese in loro assenza, in corti improvvisate, alla presenza degli anziani della tribù e della famiglia, solo maschi. Sono le vittime a rischiare: sanzioni, prigione o violenze sessuali da parte dei giudici”
– Mirwais, avvocato penalista
Chi ha difeso le donne è sotto tiro: avvocate, giudici, procuratrici, vivono nascoste sotto continua minaccia di morte. Sono conosciute e rischiano molto. Non basta impedire loro di lavorare, per i Talebani vanno eliminate. Soprattutto per quei padri e quei mariti che, a causa loro, erano stati imprigionati. Questi uomini sono stati tutti liberati dai Talebani, già nella loro corsa verso Kabul nell’agosto 2021. Ex prigionieri e combattenti hanno saccheggiato le case di donne giudici. E vogliono la loro vendetta. “Pochissime si rivolgono alle corti talebane per i loro problemi -dice Mirwais, avvocato penalista-. Per i nuovi governanti le donne non valgono nulla e tutte le decisioni vengono prese in loro assenza, in corti improvvisate, alla presenza degli anziani della tribù e della famiglia, solo maschi. Sono le vittime a rischiare: sanzioni, prigione o violenze sessuali da parte dei giudici”. La stampa non c’è più ma qualche notizia sulla “giustizia talebana” filtra sui social network. Ci sono state donne lapidate in diverse province, in quella di Badakhshan in particolare. A Ghowr una donna si è suicidata per sfuggire a questa crudele esecuzione. Nella provincia di Takhar, 40 giovani sono stati frustati in mezzo alla strada e messi in prigione per non aver osservato le prescrizioni su hijab e barbe. Scendere in strada è come andare in guerra.
L’8 marzo in Afghanistan non c’è nulla da festeggiare. Non c’era nemmeno nei vent’anni passati quando, tranne poche eccezioni, la giustizia per le donne restava una chimera. Ma le militanti afghane che si battono per i diritti delle loro sorelle ci tengono molto a celebrare questa festa. Per loro è sempre stato un giorno importante e lo è ancora. “Serve a ricordarci le vittorie delle donne -dice Gulnaz, militante di Rawa-. Se loro ce l’hanno fatta, ce la faremo anche noi. Ci vorrà molto tempo ma le cose cambieranno. Oggi sappiamo che continueremo a combattere, con le armi della consapevolezza, dell’istruzione, della cura, della resistenza e con la forza della vita stessa. È questa che dobbiamo celebrare oggi”. Rawa e le altre associazioni di donne continuano a lottare. Trovano ogni escamotage per realizzare quello che serve: scuole, rifugi, ambulatori. Tutto segreto, per una vita che non si fa schiacciare. Continuano a inventare e a dare speranza alle donne. Rawa ci sarà l’8 marzo: le militanti arriveranno per l’occasione addirittura da altre province. Nonostante tutto, nei modi più fantasiosi, riusciranno ad affermare la certezza che qualcosa si può sempre fare per arginare l’orrore e nutrire la forza delle donne. Un giorno di coraggio che, ancora, i Talebani e gli altri tagliagole non sono riusciti a devastare.
▻https://altreconomia.it/l8-marzo-clandestino-delle-donne-afghane-che-resistono-ai-talebani
#Afghanistan #femmes #résistance #Revolutionary_association_of_the_women_of_Afghanistan (#Rawa) #Kaboul #peur #justice
Mais quelle bonne idée cher Président !
#Kaboul comme #Srebrenica ?
France, UK to propose safe zone for people leaving #Afghanistan, submit resolution at UN meeting : Emmanuel #Macron
“Our resolution proposal aims to define a safe zone in Kabul, under UN control, which would allow humanitarian operations to continue,” French President Macron said.
Ahead of an emergency meeting by the United Nations on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that France and Britain would propose for a safe zone in Kabul to protect people trying to flee Afghanistan.
“Our resolution proposal aims to define a safe zone in Kabul, under UN control, which would allow humanitarian operations to continue,” news agency Reuters quoted Macron as saying on Sunday. During his visit to Mosul in Iraq later in the day, Macron stressed the resolution would be passed by the two countries and expressed hope that it would be accepted by member nations favourably. “I cannot see who could oppose enabling the safety of humanitarian operations,” he further said.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres is scheduled to meet the permanent representatives for the United Kingdom, the United States, France, China and Russia — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — to discuss the worsening situation in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, earlier on Saturday, Macron had said that France had held preliminary discussions with the Taliban about the humanitarian situation. The talks also included possible evacuation of more people out of the country.
“We have begun having discussions, which are very fragile and preliminary, with the Taliban on the issue of humanitarian operations and the ability to protect and repatriate Afghans who are at risk,” Reuters had reported on Saturday citing the French President.
France ended its evacuation operations in Afghanistan on Friday, two weeks after the Taliban seized the capital city of Kabul. The US troops are scheduled to withdraw completely from the country by August 31, a deadline that has been agreed upon by the Taliban.
Several other countries have also closed their evacuation operations as the last date nears. The UK pulled out the last of its troops from the war-torn nation early on Sunday despite a number of Afghans, eligible for repatriation, being left behind.
▻https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/france-uk-to-propose-safe-zone-for-people-leaving-afghanistan-submit
#Macron #UK #France #safe_zones
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De zones sures, on en parlait en 2019 pour la #Syrie :
Le plan de la Turquie est de créer dans le nord de la Syrie une vaste zone sécurisée pour renvoyer les réfugiés.
►https://seenthis.net/messages/805214
En 2016 Merkel soutenait déjà la même idée de la Turquie :
Turkey thanks Merkel for support of #safe_zones in Syria
►https://seenthis.net/messages/466387
Mais on parlait aussi de leur inefficacité... comme l’ont démontré les exemples de l’#Irak et de la #Bosnie :
Look back and learn : #Safe_zones in Iraq and Bosnia
►https://seenthis.net/messages/471070
ping @isskein
La situation des femmes afghanes en quelques chiffres
▻https://www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-pacifique/20210827-la-situation-des-femmes-afghanes-en-quelques-chiffres
Très fortes inquiétudes pour le sort des femmes en #Afghanistan après la prise de #Kaboul par les talibans, le 15 août 2021. L’Émirat islamique d’Afghanistan, qui avait déjà contrôlé le pays et imposé une interprétation très rigoriste et violente de la charia entre 1996 et 2001, est de retour. Une situation particulièrement préoccupante pour les femmes, qui alarme toutes les institutions et organisations internationales. Retour sur la situation des femmes en Afghanistan en quelques chiffres.
C’est dans les années 1960-1970 que les #femmes_afghanes ont connu une première période d’émancipation par rapport à un système traditionnel très archaïque qui les maintenait complètement sous la domination masculine. Mais les guerres et les conflits successifs vont compliquer cette émancipation. Ce sera d’abord l’intervention soviétique de 1978 à 1992, puis la guerre civile entre les différentes factions de 1992 à 1996 et ensuite la prise de pouvoir cette année-là par les #talibans. Ces derniers imposeront un régime très dur, surtout vis-à-vis des femmes qui perdent alors toute forme de liberté et de droits et se retrouvent totalement soumises à une vision archaïque et au pouvoir des hommes.
L’intervention de l’Otan, en 2001, met un terme à l’occupation talibane, mais entraîne une guerre pour reprendre le territoire en engageant parallèlement diverses initiatives de développement qui permettent aux femmes de se libérer, d’accéder à l’éducation, à la santé, à la vie sociale et politique. Comme la population afghane est jeune en majorité, beaucoup de jeunes femmes ne connaissent que cette période et aspirent à plus d’autonomie et à une meilleure qualité de vie, surtout pour celles qui vivent dans les campagnes et qui sont encore en très grande difficulté, dépendant des hommes et des mariages forcés.
Mais à partir de 2015, l’Otan, qui ne voit pas d’issue militaire au conflit, commence à se retirer progressivement. Des pourparlers sont engagés entre les Américains et les talibans et un plan de retrait total des forces étrangères est fixé à la fin août 2021. Le 15 août, les talibans rentrent dans Kaboul après avoir reconquis une grande partie du territoire face à une partie de la population totalement désespérée qui tente de s’enfuir. Les femmes afghanes sont totalement catastrophées et les institutions internationales s’alarment pour leur liberté dorénavant gravement menacée. L’Afghanistan étant plus que jamais le pays le plus dangereux au monde pour les femmes.
]]>Homegrown app helping Kabul residents steer clear of danger
#Ehtesab tracks turbulence on the ground and sends users alerts on which areas to avoid.
As Kabul fell on Sunday, 20 young Afghan tech workers tracked the Taliban’s advance, broadcasting real-time reports of gunfire, explosions and traffic jams across the city through a new app.
Called Ehtesab, the app relies on ground-level reports from a vetted team of users to a private WhatsApp group.
The reports, which are then verified by the app’s fact checkers, range from security incidents, such as fires, gunshots and bombings, to road closures and traffic problems to electricity cuts. Sara Wahedi, the 26-year-old founder of the app, said the team tried to confirm the reports with the interior ministry, “when it used to exist”.
On Sunday morning, Wahedi and her team were supposed to be uploading the new version of their iOS app but instead found themselves dealing with an ever more frantic stream of reports.
“Breaking on the @ehtesabaf App: Taliban have entered Arghandi, Paghman District. South Gate of Kabul. ANDSF [Afghan National Defence and Security Forces] under attack,” Wahedi wrote on Twitter at the time.
She said that as the Taliban advanced across Afghanistan, Ehtesab had built a reliable way of “getting reports from a lot of different security structures”, including police, the government and international organisations.
Soon the team started receiving reports that the Taliban had captured Bagram prison, in the former US military base just north of Kabul.
“At that point our reporting mechanisms were still in place, so it was easy to converse with our security team and all our reporters. We were monitoring minute by minute, talking to different police districts, tracking the Taliban kilometre by kilometre by that point,” she said.
“But by the time they reached the city centre, everything shut down, nothing was online, there was no way of speaking to each other. People deleted their messages or turned off their phones. When the Taliban reached the president’s office, it was like, ‘OK, now we have to work alone’.”
Ehtesab, which means “accountability” in Pashto and Dari, is co-owned by Afghan company #Netlinks, which invested $40,000, and #Wahedi, who said she has put in $2,500 of her own money.
“I didn’t want to register as an NGO, to be benchmarked or limited by the United Nations or the United States. This is an Afghan-led and funded, fully 100 per cent Afghan team working on this,” she said.
Users of the app can opt to receive phone alerts based on their location, warning them to avoid certain areas, buildings or businesses. They can also report incidents themselves via the app, which turns on your camera and microphone so you can send video footage to Wahedi’s team. The goal, she said, is to empower local communities with live information on which to act.
Ehtesab is still running, and Wahedi said she want to keep operating it as long as possible, although she is currently outside Afghanistan. She has managed to raise nearly $15,000 through a GoFundMe campaign, part of which she will send to her team in Kabul as emergency funds.
Her plan is to build a nationwide alert system, not just through the apps but through SMS warnings as well. Their office in central Kabul remains closed, with employees working from home, but they plan to upload a new iOS version as soon as they can get back to their desks.
“We just want to alleviate some of the anxieties that Afghans have in these uncertain and volatile times,” she said. “We will find different ways of garnering data about the city and security . . . That’s the beauty of tech, it knows no borders,” she said.
Wahedi founded the company in 2018, after spending two years working for President Ashraf Ghani’s office on Afghanistan’s social development policy, but insists she is not affiliated to any political group.
She had moved back to her hometown as a 21-year-old, after having escaped Taliban rule in her native Kabul to go to Canada as a refugee at the age of six. Two decades later, the Afghan entrepreneur found herself fleeing from the Taliban again. This time she does not know if she will ever be able to return. “It’s like Groundhog Day,” she said.
Today, she is using what she calls the “privilege” of having escaped Kabul to try to put her friends and family on charter flights out of Afghanistan.
“I’m grateful to be with my mom but the guilt is crippling when I think about my home, when I think about the fact I’ll never be able to go back to the Kabul I’ve known for so long,” she said. “I don’t think any of us will ever be the same again.”
▻https://www.ft.com/content/972ad8e2-54a5-4300-a317-56cc2612bfef
#Kaboul #cartographie #sécurité #cartographie #alertes #app #cartographie_participative #smartphone
]]>La Turquie au centre des questions migratoires
Le plan de la Turquie est de créer dans le nord de la Syrie une vaste zone sécurisée pour renvoyer les réfugiés. Mais au-delà des obstacles politiques et militaires, un tel projet coûterait des milliards d’euros. Ankara fait donc pression sur les Européens pour qu’ils mettent la main au porte-monnaie.
▻https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/19897/la-turquie-au-centre-des-questions-migratoires?ref=tw_i
#safe_zones #zones_sures #réfugiés #réfugiés_syriens #Turquie #Syrie #renvois #expulsions #retour_au_pays #safe_zone #zone_sure
ping @isskein
’Inhumane’ Frontex forced returns going unreported
On a late evening August flight last year from Munich to Afghanistan, an Afghan man seated in the back of the plane struggled to breath as a German escort officer repeatedly squeezed his testicles.
The man, along with another Afghan who had tried to kill himself, was being forcibly removed from Germany and sent back to a country engulfed in war.
The EU’s border agency Frontex coordinated and helped pay for the forced return operation, as part of a broader bid to remove from Europe unwanted migrants and others whose applications for international protection had been rejected.
By then, almost 20 years of war and civil conflict had already ravaged Afghanistan - with 2018 registering its worst-ever civilian death rate since counting had started.
Also seated on the plane for the 14 August flight were independent observers of the anti-torture committee (CPT) of the human rights watchdog, the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe.
In a report, they describe in detail how six escort officers had surrounded the terrified man in an effort to calm him.
The ’calming’ techniques involved an officer pulling the man’s neck from behind while yanking his nose upwards.
His hands and legs had been cuffed and a helmet placed on him. Another knelt on the man’s knees and upper legs, using his full weight to keep him seated.
After 15 minutes, the kneeling officer “then gripped the returnee’s genitals with his left hand and repeatedly squeezed them for prolonged periods.”
Another 503 have been sent to Afghanistan in flights coordinated by Frontex since the start of this year.
Vicki Aken, the International Rescue Committee’s Afghanistan country director, says those returned are invariably put in harm’s way.
“You cannot say that Kabul is ’conflict-free’. Kabul is actually one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan,” she said, noting Afghanistan has the highest number of child casualties in the world.
The day after the Munich flight landed on 14 August 2018, a blast ripped through a high school in the capital city, Kabul, killing 48 people, including over 30 students.
Accountability
The flight journey from Munich highlights a stunning omission from Frontex responsibilities - adding to concerns the EU agency is failing to maintain standards when it comes to coordinating forced-returns in a humane manner.
For one, all return operations must be monitored in accordance with EU law, and a forced-return monitor is required to deliver a report to Frontex and to all the member states involved.
Such reports, handed over to Frontex’s executive director, are supposed to act as an internal check and balance to stem alleged abuse by escort guards in a system that has been in place since the start of 2017.
These monitors come from a “pool of forced-return monitors”, as required under the 2016 European Border and Coast Guard Regulation and the 2008 Return Directive, and are broadly sourced from the member states themselves.
The CPT in their report noted that the flight on 14 August 2018 had also been monitored by Frontex staff itself, and concluded that its “current arrangements cannot be considered as an independent external monitoring mechanism”.
When the agency compiled its own internal report spanning the latter half of 2018, which included the 14 August flight, no mention was made of the Afghan man who had been manhandled by six officers.
Asked to explain, the Warsaw-based agency whose annual budget for 2020 is set to increase to €420.6m, has yet to respond to Euobserver.
Instead, the report, which had been written up by Frontex’s fundamental rights officer, highlighted other issues.
It demanded escorts not place restraints on children. It said minors who are alone cannot be sent back on a forced-return flight, which is exactly what had happened on two other operations.
No one on the 14 August flight had issued a “serious incident report” label, used by Frontex whenever a particularly bad incident has been deemed to have transpired.
During 2018 Frontex coordinated and helped fund 345 such return operations, by charter flights during which only one “serious incident report” was filed - posing questions on the reliability and independence of the monitors and return escorts, as well as the sincerity of internal Frontex efforts to stem any abuse.
The accountability gap was highlighted by the outgoing head of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, who in his farewell speech earlier this month, deliberately singled out Frontex.
“Frontex is bound by EU laws that prohibit torture and any form of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” he said, in reference to reports of alleged human rights violations that occurred during Frontex support operations observed since mid-2018.
Monitoring the monitors
For Markus Jaeger, a Council of Europe official who advises the Frontex management board, the agency’s monitoring system for forced return is meaningless.
“The internal system of Frontex produces close to nil reports on serious incidents, in other words, the internal system of Frontex, says there is never a human rights incident,” he told EUobserver, earlier this month.
He said Frontex’s pool of 71 monitors is overstretched and that in some cases, only one is available for a flight that might have 150 people being returned.
“One monitor doesn’t suffice,” he said, noting Frontex has been able to delegate any blame onto member states, by positioning itself merely as a coordinator.
But as Frontex expands - with the ability to lease planes, pilots and staff - its direct involvement with the returns also increases and so does its accountability, says Jaeger.
“The [return] figures are supposedly going up, the capacity is supposedly going up, the procedures are being shortened, and deportations are going to happen by deployed guest officers and or by Frontex officers and so the independence of the monitors is crucial,” he pointed out.
For its part, the European Commission says Frontex’s pool of monitors is set to expand.
Nafplion Group
Jaeger, along with other national authorities from a handful of member states, which already contribute to Frontex’s pool of monitors, are now putting together a new group to keep the forced-returns organised by Frontex better in check.
Known as the Nafplion Group, and set up as a pilot project last October by the Greek ombudsman, it describes itself as a “remedy to the absence of an external, independent governance of the pool of forced-return monitors” in Frontex forced-return flights.
The plan is to get it up and running before the end of the year, despite having no guarantee they will ever be selected by Frontex to help monitor a forced-return flight.
“This is how de facto the Nafplion Group can be avoided,” said Jaeger, noting that they plan to go public should they not be picked.
Asked to comment, the European Commission says it is not in discussions with any institutions on the establishment of a new, parallel monitoring system.
▻https://euobserver.com/migration/146090
#renvois #expulsions #Frontex #Allemagne #réfugiés #réfugiés_afghans #asile #migrations #violence #responsabilité #retours_forcés #renvois #expulsions #déboutés #Kaboul #directive_retour #Nafplion_Group #monitoring #monitorage
#Afghanistan : le domicile d’un ancien interprète de l’armée française attaqué
La résidence d’un ancien interprète de l’armée française a été visée par des tirs à Kaboul en Afghanistan. L’#attaque s’est produite jeudi dans le quartier #Tchehelsoton de #Kaboul. Les hommes ont pris la fuite après avoir ouvert le feu sans réussir à pénétrer dans sa maison. #Said_Abas fait partie des #anciens_interprètes de l’armée française qui n’a toujours pas obtenu de visa pour la France.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/asie-pacifique/20190629-attaque-ancien-interprete-armee-francaise?ref=tw
#interprètes #armée #France
sur les interprètes afghans, une métaliste :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/740387
As Afghanistan’s capital grows, its residents scramble for clean water
Twice a week, Farid Rahimi gets up at dawn, wraps a blanket around his shoulders to keep warm, gathers his empty jerrycans, and waits beside the tap outside his house in a hillside neighbourhood above Kabul.
Afghanistan’s capital is running dry – its groundwater levels depleted by an expanding population and the long-term impacts of climate change. But its teeming informal settlements continue to grow as decades-long conflict and – more recently – drought drive people like Rahimi into the cities, straining already scarce water supplies.
With large numbers migrating to Kabul, the city’s resources are overstretched and aid agencies and the government are facing a new problem: how to adjust to a shifting population still dependent on some form of humanitarian assistance.
LE #THÉÂTRE #AFTAAB, LE SOLEIL #AFGHAN À LA #CARTOUCHERIE DE VINCENNES
▻https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Theatre/Le-Theatre-Aftaab-le-Soleil-afghan-a-la-Cartoucherie-de-Vincennes-2013-04-
publié par DIDIER MÉREUZE, le 18/04/2013 à 14h40
consulté le 03/06/2018
Fondée avec la complicité d’#Ariane_Mnouchkine et du #Théâtre_du_Soleil, la troupe de #Kaboul s’installe à la Cartoucherie pour conter les chemins de l’#immigration.
La Ronde de nuit
par le Théâtre Aftaab
Théâtre du Soleil, Cartoucherie de Vincennes
Les comédiens afghans d’Aftaab ont retrouvé la Cartoucherie de Vincennes et le Théâtre du Soleil à l’origine de leur histoire. Conviée, en 2005, à diriger en stage des artistes de Kaboul, Ariane Mnouchkine les avait engagés à fonder une troupe. Sur les 250 participants, une vingtaine se lancèrent dans l’aventure, baptisant leur théâtre « Aftaab » – « Soleil » en langue dari.
Depuis la formation de cette troupe, les comédiens du Théâtre du Soleil se rendent régulièrement à Kaboul afin d’assister les comédiens d’Aftaab dans leur mise en scène. En 2008, la troupe afghane est invitée à la Cartoucherie pour présenter leurs mises en scène du Tartuffe de Molière et du Cercle de craie caucasien de Brecht. L’année suivante, ils sont à nouveau conviés afin de travailler sur leur première création, qui cherche à illustrer la vie quotidienne de l’Afghanistan des talibans : la #Ronde_de_nuit, qui narre la vie d’un gardien de théâtre afghan. Cette pièce est pour les comédiens Afghan l’occasion de témoigner, auprès de la « France des droits de l’homme », d’eux mêmes et de leur existence. Le gardien du Théâtre du Soleil, chargé par Ariane de veiller sur les archives et les décors, se retrouve soudain au beau milieu d’une cohorte d’Afghan sans papier qui cherchent un endroit où passer la nuit à l’abri de la neige et du gel. D’autres personnages viennent s’ajouter aux réfugiés : « un sympathique policier humaniste, une prostituée au grand cœur, un SDF qui vient prendre sa douche, une jeune femme temporairement hébergée par le Soleil… »
Bruissante, frémissante, une humanité s’agite, en proie aux peurs, aux angoisses, aux difficultés du quotidien, à la douleur de la séparation. Décidée à se battre, à survivre, à connaître enfin (ou retrouver) le bonheur, être libre.
Cette pièce s’inspire en partie du vécu des acteurs (le gardien de nuit du théâtre du soleil est réellement un immigré afghan), elle a été construite à partir de leurs souvenirs et de leurs improvisations. Selon un témoignage de Shuhra Sabagny, l’une des actrices de la Ronde de nuit, les membres de la troupe ont désiré mettre en lumière la condition de ceux qui, contrairement à eux, n’ont pas la chance d’avoir obtenu des papiers et un travail en France, tout comme ils ont souhaité rendre hommage aux français qui les ont aidés. Malgré leur rêve de retourner dans leur pays, cette perspective leur semble lointaine, voire impossible. À titre d’exemple, lorsque Haroon Amani, l’un des membres d’Aftaab, s’est rendu en Afghanistan, il a dû prétendre travailler dans un atelier de couture au Pakistan, parce qu’il aurait encouru des risques et aurait probablement mis en danger son entourage.
Mon commentaire sur cet article :
L’expérience de la troupe Aftaab nous montre dans non seulement à quel point la censure de l’art est forte dans des pays tels que l’Afghanistan, mais elle nous apprend également et surtout le pouvoir que des pays comme le nôtre ont de faire changer les choses. Si nous pouvons, en effet, agir individuellement en aidant des immigrés à échapper à la tyrannie ou à la pauvreté de leur pays et à s’intégrer aux nôtres, les états les plus libres et le plus développés ont en outre le pouvoir, si ce n’est le devoir, d’aider les pays en difficulté à sortir des situations de crise.
A #Kaboul, des #miniatures #mogholes prêchent la #tolérance
▻https://www.lemag.ma/lemag/i/22739572/kaboul-des-miniatures-mogholes-prechent-la-tolerance
▻https://cmsphoto.ww-cdn.com/resizeapi/7ab5dd4d160262c28345b05a7f8c25d1d405dff8/3200/-1
Massacres à #Kaboul: les services pakistanais accusés
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/300118/massacres-kaboul-les-services-pakistanais-accuses
Cérémonie funéraire, dimanche 28 janvier 2018 à Kaboul. © Reuters Trois terribles attaques-suicides ont assommé la capitale afghane depuis dix jours. Des experts locaux mettent en cause les services secrets pakistanais. Ces derniers enverraient un message à l’intention des États-Unis, après la suspension d’une partie de l’aide américaine à Islamabad.
]]>Face aux massacres causés par les attentats, #Kaboul se calfeutre
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/300118/face-aux-massacres-causes-par-les-attentats-kaboul-se-calfeutre
Cérémonie funéraire, dimanche 28 janvier 2018 à Kaboul. © Reuters Trois terribles attaques-suicides ont assommé la capitale afghane depuis dix jours. Des experts locaux mettent en cause les services secrets pakistanais. Ces derniers enverraient un message à l’intention des États-Unis, après la suspension d’une partie de l’aide américaine à Islamabad.
]]>Après les attentats, #Kaboul se calfeutre
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/300118/apres-les-attentats-kaboul-se-calfeutre
Cérémonie funéraire, dimanche 28 janvier 2018 à Kaboul. © Reuters Trois terribles attaques-suicides ont sonné la capitale afghane en dix jours. Des experts locaux mettent en cause les services secrets pakistanais, qui enverraient un message à l’intention des Etats-Unis, après la suspension d’une partie de l’aide américaine à Islamabad.
]]>Afghanistan: Situation of young male ‘Westernised’ returnees to Kabul
Endorsed and peer-reviewed by the Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) and the Dutch Council for Refugees, Asylos has compiled a new COI research report on the situation of young male ‘Westernised’ returnees to Kabul, Afghanistan. This report was compiled to meet an increased demand by legal representatives who are representing young Afghan asylum seekers in Europe. These asylum seekers have spent their teenage years in Europe and are denied a new form of protection after turning 18 on the basis that the security situation in Afghanistan has improved and that return to or internal relocation to Kabul will be both reasonable and relevant. Our report serves to counterbalance a general lack of understanding and lack of country information about the relevant issues at stake and contribute with this report to a more informed debate about the situation of young ‘Westernised’ returnees to Afghanistan. It is also intended as a tool to assist legal practitioners and to help ensure that decision-makers consider all relevant material.
▻https://asylos.eu/afghanistan-research-project
#occidentalisation #Kaboul #COI #asile #migrations #réfugiés #réfugiés_afghans #renvois #expulsions #risques #rapport
]]>Malgré sa peur, Kaboul veut faire tomber ses murs de béton
L’emprise de la terreur sur la ville l’a flanquée d’oripeaux de béton. Malgré sa peur, Kaboul veut faire tomber ces murs qui protègent les VIP, pour redonner un peu d’espoir et de confiance à la population et désengorger la circulation.
Depuis le début du mois, le gouvernement a commencé à enlever ces milliers de #T-walls - des #murs_anti-explosion en forme de T renversé - qui assiègent la capitale afghane, dessinent une géographie compliquée et lui confèrent des allures de camp militaire.
« On a commencé en 2006 et jusqu’en 2012 les affaires ont vraiment bien marché », sourit Mustafa Sharify, patron de #Beeroj_Logistics_Services qui a équipé plusieurs ambassades et institutions. « On en posait jusqu’à mille par mois, tout le monde en voulait : les députés, le plus simple agent du gouvernement, tous installaient des T-Walls devant leur maison. »
Leur prix varie, selon la taille et la qualité, de 380 dollars à plus de 1.000.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/malgre-sa-peur-kaboul-veut-faire-tomber-ses-murs-de-beton.afp
#murs #barrières_frontalières (même si c’est pas des barrières frontalières... mais pour l’archivage) #séparations #gated_communities #Kaboul #Afghanistan #business #frontières #urban_matter #villes
cc @albertocampiphoto @daphne @marty @reka
Storia di una pallottola
▻http://www.storiadiunapallottola.it/web-documentario
#Kaboul #Afghanistan #webdoc #attentat #victimes #storytelling #terrorisme #guerre #conflit #urgence #odeur #Emergency #blessés #blessés #armes #commerce_d'armes #AK_47 #Talibans
cc @albertocampiphoto
Un #Attentat fait plus de 90 morts à #Kaboul
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/310517/un-attentat-fait-plus-de-90-morts-kaboul
Un blessé juste après l’explosion © Reuters L’explosion d’un camion piégé mercredi 31 mai en plein cœur de Kaboul a fait plus de 90 morts et 460 blessés. Si personne n’a encore revendiqué l’attentat, les #Talibans ont gagné du terrain ces dernières années et l’État islamique est désormais présent dans l’est de l’Afghanistan.
]]>Un #Attentat fait plus de 80 morts à #Kaboul
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/310517/un-attentat-fait-plus-de-80-morts-kaboul
Un blessé juste après l’explosion © Reuters L’explosion d’un camion piégé mercredi 31 mai en plein cœur de Kaboul a fait plus de 80 morts et 320 blessés. Si personne n’a encore revendiqué l’attentat, les #Talibans ont gagné du terrain ces dernières années et l’État islamique est désormais présent dans l’est de l’Afghanistan.
]]>#Afghanistan : le pouvoir de #Kaboul et son armée perdent le contrôle du pays
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/050317/afghanistan-le-pouvoir-de-kaboul-et-son-armee-perdent-le-controle-du-pays
Haibatullah Akhunzadeh, chef des talibans depuis mai 2016. © Reuters Face à la progression continue des talibans, le gouvernement de Kaboul ne contrôle plus que la moitié des quatre cents districts du pays. Ses forces de sécurité, qui ont pris le relais des troupes américaines et de l’Otan il y a deux ans, subissent une hécatombe : près de sept mille tués l’an dernier. En plus des talibans, de nouveaux mouvements d’insurrection se développent dans le pays.> Lire aussi : Le Pakistan doit faire face à la menace grandissante de l’État islamique
#International #Asie #Etat_islamique #Otan #Taliban #US_Army
]]>L’EI revendique le carnage de #Kaboul
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/240716/l-ei-revendique-le-carnage-de-kaboul
L’attentat commis à Kaboul a fait au moins 80 morts. © Reuters Un #Attentat suicide, revendiqué par l’État islamique, a fait au moins 80 morts dans la capitale afghane. Il visait une manifestation de la minorité chiite hazara.
#International #Afghanistan #Asie #Daech #EI #Etat_islamique #Hazaras
]]>Afghanistan : l’Etat islamique revendique un attentat meurtrier à Kaboul
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2016/07/23/afghanistan-attentat-meurtrier-lors-d-une-manifestation-a-kaboul_4973891_321
Fin du siège près de l’ambassade d’Espagne à #Kaboul
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/121215/fin-du-siege-pres-de-lambassade-despagne-kaboul
Les forces de sécurité afghanes ont tué les trois taliban impliqués dans l’attaque d’une pension proche de l’ambassade d’Espagne vendredi à Kaboul, a annoncé le porte-parole du ministère de l’Intérieur dans un message diffusé sur Twitter samedi aux premières heures.
#International #Fil_d'actualités #Afghanistan #Asie #Talibans
]]>Les dessous d’une image : #Sandra_Calligaro commente ses images de #Kaboul
Elle est partie un peu par hasard, pour renouer avec un vieux fantasme. Sandra Calligaro voulait être reporter de guerre. Cela a été l’Afghanistan, mais cela aurait pu être l’Irak. Diplôme d’une école d’art en poche, la Française débarque à Kaboul en 2007. Pour un mois. Elle y passera sept ans, durant lesquels elle ausculte la société afghane plus qu’elle ne côtoie les militaires. « #Afghan_Dream » est une exploration photographique du pays et de son quotidien, bousculé par treize années de présence internationale. Sandra Calligaro commente quatre de ses images.
@odilon, intéressant pour toi ?
La #terre du #pouvoir, le pouvoir de la terre. #Conflits_fonciers et jeux politiques en #Afghanistan
Cet article vise à montrer comment la #légalité ne s’oppose pas de façon systématique au recours à la #violence mais constitue deux manières de gagner et de maintenir l’accès à des #ressources qui s’entremêlent et se renforcent mutuellement. À travers l’analyse d’un conflit foncier à la #périphérie rurale de la capitale afghane, #Kaboul, et l’observation des processus d’appropriation et de #redistribution_de_terres au niveau local, nous mettrons en lumière une géographie du pouvoir qui se déploie à une échelle plus large. Suite à d’importants changements dans les conditions matérielles qui ont conduit à l’expansion de la ville et à la transformation de la #frange_rurale-urbaine, le #pouvoir_territorialisé apparaît comme une condition préalable pour contrôler la circulation des personnes, des biens et de l’argent, de l’information et des idées. Ceci nous permet d’ajouter les landscapes et la circulation des terres aux cinq catégories célèbres qui sont distinguées par Appadurai (1999) comme un moyen d’organiser l’étude de la culture du monde et de l’économie.
Humanitarian Urbanism under a Neoliberal Regime
Lessons from Kabul (2001-‐2011)
▻http://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/RC21-Berlin-Papers/24-1-Potvin-Marianne.pdf
#espace_humanitaire #humanitaire #néolibéralisme #Kaboul #Afghanistan #urbanisme_humanitaire
]]>#film : Wajma
Le film raconte une histoire d’#amour clandestine à #Kaboul entre Wajma, une jeune étudiante de 20 ans, et Mustafa, un jeune serveur de 25 ans, et l’impact de cette relation sur la cellule familiale de Wajma (les parents, la grand-mère et le frère).
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajma
Trailer : ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDgiZJSp6U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
▻http://talkbacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Wajma-224x300.jpg
]]>#Kaboul, non plus, n’en veut pas
#Belgique. L’#Afghanistan ne délivre que « quelques » #laissez-passer aux #demandeurs_d’asile #déboutés.
▻http://www.lalibre.be/actu/belgique/kaboul-non-plus-n-en-veut-pas-5268961e35708def0d922a85
]]>Architecture and War: From Baghdad to Kabul | Les carnets de l’Ifpo
►http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/4232
Kabul is witnessing a remarkable private sector-led construction boom, sustained by the “economic bubble” that is mainly generated by the temporary presence of international forces and organizations. Observers of the situation believe that the international “controls on the movement of money” in the aftermath of 9/11, the millions of dollars that the Afghan Government and donor community are spending on infrastructure rebuilding since 2002, and, more recently, the global economic crisis have prompted some expatriate Afghan entrepreneurs and traders to invest in the real estate business at home. Many Kabulis are however convinced that the resources for new construction have been mostly acquired through illegal means, particularly from the proceeds of the narcotics industry that are in part laundered into real estate.
#Kaboul
#guerre
#urbanisme
#informal
#gated_communities
#Afghanistan
@baroug @monolecte
c’est marrant, je suis tombé par hasard sur deux épisodes de #kaboul_kitchen et j’ai trouvé ça plutôt mauvais, limite obscène par rapport à la situation en Afghanistan ... Barbus caricaturaux, colonel corrompu mais finalement bien sympathique, ...
Sentiment de mauvais carton-pâte plaqué sur une guerre qui continue chaque jour avec son lot de victimes, afghanes principalement.