“Some communication is going on there”
says Martin.“My name is Mohamed Omar Cheikh, I am from Somalia, problem place. I am here one year now. They say they not take me back, they keep me one year. Somalia problem, fight, everything. I stay here. No free, no nothing”, and then he cried.
Mamadou from Chad.
Ali, also from Somalia. Also: inside the prison for one year, “They keep me for nothing.”
Karimian, from Baghdad, “Shlonek?”
Mamadou, “I do 7 months, I am from Chad.”
Imrad Khan, “From Pakistan.”
“My name is Sayed Hassan, I am from India, I am coming here before 9 months. The motherfuckers say, you say you want asylum? I’m coming here, I want asylum. He keeping me here in prison. After he say you are not from India.”
What is the worst that happened to you in this prison?
Mamadou from Chad asked if he could speak French. Yes of course you can!
“Ma chambre sentait pas bien.” My room didn’t smell right. He moved to another cell, but he received no mattrass. So he slept on the ground for one month. He lost his hair.
“We were put in isolation for talking with you.” another brother told us.
Labels: 3rd commemoration 2008, Schiphol detention center fire
¶ Friday, October 31, 2008
