Secretariat of Migrations, Cultures and International Cooperation
European Humanist Regional 
29 october 2005
BURNED BY XENOPHOBIA

Eleven immigrants imprisoned in a detention center in Amsterdam airport have died in a fire.  No door-opening circuit was activated to prevent these absurd deaths.

We demand that those guards who ignored the shouts for help of the imprisoned immigrants be tried for criminal irresponsibility.  And we hold responsible the Dutch Government and all those European 
Governments that maintain internment centers, because their existence and operation makes a mockery of human rights.

These are not unfortunate casualties; the increasing number of "accidental" and intentional fires where immigrants are dying has a clear significance.  Europe also kills within its own borders.

Today in Holland, yesterday in France, in Spain... How many people will have to die?  How horrible must be their deaths be for Europe to wake up? Will the death of people who flee from it be converted into a televised spectacle before the leaders of Europe find the courage or the need to really change things?

No law about foreigners can be put above the law of survival. Those who govern us, the financiers, the politicians and the media are accustomed to always look the other way, but we do not want to look the
other way.

There is no need to stop immigration, let's stop hunger, illness and death, because we all want to live.  It is necessary to change the  world and today it is possible to do so, although the voracity of money and
its employees impedes it.

Humanists continue to propose:
  1. Immediate real, broad and successive regularizations for all immigrants on a European scale. 
  2. Immediate closure of the Internment Centers on European soil.
  3. Convert the twisted policies of cooperation into joint development plans that allow a real development of underdeveloped continents.
  4. Tax financial speculation so that conditions for a dignified life and growth of people can be invested in.
  5. Convoke or support all non-violent protest actions to do with  these deaths that should have been avoided and reclaim a world dignified for all.