This morning I woke up early to go to class. The last lesson, I think, of my college career.
This lesson has had a very special meaning. There was a guest in the classroom. An important guest, invited by a professor of investigative journalism Pietro Veronese (La Repubblica). In attendance were
Dagmawi Yimer, an Ethiopian boy landed in Italy after a long journey.
Dagmawi studied law in Addis Ababa and fled to Italy because of the difficult situation in his country of origin.
In the 80s and 90s in Ethiopia was the dictatorship of the 'red soldiers' of Mengistu Haile Mariam, then replaced by a neoliberal government. Today
power self-sufficient and repressive government of Melles Zenawi off any hope of civil renewal in Ethiopia. Almost all the opposition leaders are imprisoned or missing.
This premise is used to understand the reasons for the departure of Dagmawi.
him, who could not see his parents because they would not allow him to leave. He has been through the desert aboard a pick up in conditions of extreme degradation, crammed with dozens and dozens of people. He who arrived in Italy, Frattini met at a conference on relations between Italy and Libya and has not even spit in the face. He has been sold to the Libyan police for thirty pieces of silver. He has had the courage to tell.
spoke softly, slowly and quietly. It was sweet, listened to and answered questions, spoke good Italian, he had tears in his eyes and a grace that are the envy.
Few of you know (because I'm not saying the news was hidden, but treated as a minor) in August 2008 that Berlusconi and Gaddafi signed a "treaty of friendship, partnership and cooperation."
October 2007 ENI and NOC, the Libyan state oil company, signed an agreement for the development of gas production in Libya for twenty-eight billion dollars over ten years.
In December 2007 a Protocol of Cooperation between Italy and Libya was signed by the then Interior Minister Giuliano Amato. The unlawful practice of forced return has been legalized.
Berlusconi, just to fuck off by these immigrants, decided to send overseas patrol boats, cars and bags of dead (and is not a joke), along with the money needed to pay for return flights and three detention camps (true centers torture).
The Libyan police is perhaps the worst of all the planet.
While the President signed the agreements for the gas with Gaddafi, thousands of Africans were tortured in detention camps built with our money. They beat the Ethiopian people just because they are Arab. Rape their wives, put them in one room, piled up like animals. They can not even sleep for what they are tight. They take turns.
The worst torture in the detention center undergo Kufra.
Remember this. Kufra.
not only the Libyan state still uses the death penalty, but is still widespread practice of torture, especially in prisons (chained to a wall for hours, beaten with wooden sticks, electric shocks, lemon juice in open wounds, spin corkscrews to the back, finger fractures, suffocation caused by plastic bags, sleep deprivation, food and water).
That is, while Berlusconi makes lifting and its filth at Villa Certosa, and reduces the Gelmini programs, lessons and makes discrimination between Italian and foreign children, and Alfano wants to pass the award as unconstitutional in history, while praising Mussolini, while press freedom is abolished and the intercepts become a source of incredibly high fines for journalists and publishers, while the crisis ravaging the state and not, as thousands of young people pay a rent of five hundred euro a month for a single in the capital , while studying at all, while the provinces are reduced and the retirement age for women is set twenty years after menopause, in the meantime, the Wisdom, at eight-thirty in the morning, I have also moved me with Dagmawi because he was beaten, robbed and humiliated, detained in African centers had built with our money!
Here. Here's what we are.
He does not react, I was just crying. And look at him, and I feel strong, very strong indeed.
smiles when an Italian looks. Do not have prejudices against us. Go around the schools and universities. And I am ashamed of my country, and I can not say anything. I remain silent, staring in disbelief.
He smiles and says that its Today has learned that a Libyan policeman raped a girl of twenty-two years. He knows it. Today is a bit 'sad about it.
"I can not do anything," he says. And then he said: "Berlusconi is not, only he is not the problem. The Left has treated the same way. The right and left are equal. " He knows this.
He knows. And do not watch our TV, not read our newspapers. Yet knows. He tried it on his skin.
Dagmawi he made the documentary
LIKE A MAN ON EARTH
Foreword by Ascanio Celestini. Sponsored by Amnesty International.
the film to Andrea Segre, Richard Biadene and Dagmawi Yimer, with a book of the Archives of Memory Migrants by Marco and Alessandro Triulzi Carsetti
Authors: Richard Biadene, Marco Carsetti, Andrea Segre, Alessandro Triulzi, Dagmawi Yimer
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