Support network for Afghan refugees

Since the end of hunger strike, Hunting and arresting afghan refugees are going on increasingly, in the streets, homes, workplaces, at day and at night! Around 40 afghan have bee deported yet. some of them are already to another flight, out side and inside of Afghanistan, but, about most of them no one knows where are they. Alive, death, in prison or….

At Thursday's evening, when 2 policemen, went for the usual hunting at the Afghan refugees apartments, a 25 yeas old refugee that had previously been for 26 days in the afghan refugees' hunger strike, dropped himself out of the window, and had his feet broken. Now he is at the Aker Sykehuse. Again he started an endless hunger strike from Friday 6^th October.

Every 24 hours dozens of us can be hunted, handcuffed and detained. After days of humiliation, kept hungry, we can be deported or released for a new round of hunting and arrest.

The feeling that, behind every door bell, in every corner of the city's streets, at work place, there are policemen waiting to arrest us, is occupying all our moments with fear and scary nightmares.

But still we don't dare to return back to our burning home, witch is a battle field. We hope to not be condemned too much because of not returning voluntarily to such a home. Who will go by his feet to the slaughter-house?

Nevertheless, handcuff and detention centers here are much kinder than those bullets and bombs (partly supported by and made in Norway) waiting for us in Afghanistan.

To reach our voice that:

Afghanistan is not safe, stop hunting Afghan refugees, stop deportation.

We declare a 3 days silent-seat-down in front of the parliament, from 19^th of October witch will end with a silent street demonstration on Saturday, 21st.

Zahir Athari

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Afghan Refugee Committee

Coalition forces set alight homes in Kunar

JALALABAD, Oct 4 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Coalition forces have torched homes of civilians in Sarkano district of the eastern Kunar province, local officials say.Dedar Shalzai, Governor of Kunar, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday the homes were located just two miles of the district headquarters. He said he had met local elders and had showed his strong reaction on the incident. The governor said ODA, a distinct body of the coalition forces had torched three homes in the area.Jandullah, a resident of Sarkano, told this news agency coalition forces had set alight eight homes. He said work on the homes was near to completion as materials were brought for them. The coalition forces were of the view ammunition and edible were brought for Taliban through these donkeys and they burnt the homes, Jandullah said.He said: "The burnt homes were located in 2 kilomteres of the district headquarters, how Taliban could be stationed so close."

Governor Dedar said in a meeting coalition forces told him about presence of the fighters in the area. He said the troops told him they had found through binocular that donkeys were used for supplying various items. He said in a joint operation with Afghan National Army (ANA) they recovered some explosives under a wall.

The governor said he had met commander of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Kunar and had strongly protested him. Dedar said: "Such acts of the coalition forces create problems for them in the area."Brig Gen Abdul Jalal Jalal told this news agency that besides burning six homes the coalition forces also took away three people and six animals along with them. Coalition forces have yet to comment on the incident. Abdul Mueed Hashmi

http://pajhwak.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=25461