From Estrecho Indymedia and the NoBorder Network

The morning of monday, 08.29 has been tragic. Two comrades from Camerun left with us towards the gate that separates the Mariguari Mountain, in Morocco, from the city of Melilla.

We were a number, the cops were looking for us: it's a fight, a struggle, as it uses to be. But the struggle is unfair, they have gases that asphyxiate us, they have plastic bullets. They have real bullets too, and sometimes you can hear them at night.
We have our hands and our feet, and the idea not to react. What is important is the collective, and it is the hope that sustained us along the way to Europe from our origin countries. Two, three years we were on this way.

The cops have long truncheons too, falling hardly and quickly on our bodies, breaking our bones and our hope. Some of these truncheon are electrified, and you can feel your body trembling, you cannot breath anymore, and you feel that you are dying.

This day was as many other. This time there were no Moroccan cops, it was us and the Spanish guardia civil. Many of us went through the gate, we were in Melilla, the guardia civil opened the little door and sent us back to Morocco. The cops sent back the wounded, the healthy. And they sent back two dead bodies.

The night was dark, we were afraid that the Moroccan military could come and deport us to Oujda (on the border with Algeria), finishing the job of the guardia civil. So we hid in the bush. Only in the morning we found the body of one of our brothers, apparenly dead. We also saw in the light of the dawn the heads of the police close to the gate, and we realized that something terrible had happened. The Moroccan said that there was another dead body.

We were standing close to the corpse, we made a couple of phone call, asking for help, trying to make the international authorities aware of what was happening. Somebody came, filmed saw and could witness that we are saying the truth. Also Mediciens sans Frontieres saw the wounded and one of the corpses, they also know that one of the two dead had his stomach wounded. Why then all this silence?

We, the illegal as they call us, the one that have no voice, swear by our dignity (because, although they kill us we still have our dignity as human beings) that we witnessed how our comrades have been hit untill death, that the Spanish cops opened up the little door and threw the two corpses away towards Morocco as if they were dogs.

And we now that we will return to the gate. Many of us are escaping from hunger and war, but we are not afraid: although all the officials leave us alone, we know that we are human beings and that we did not do anything, that the murderers are not among us, and that at least god knows all this.

Y sabemos que volveremos a ir hacia la alambrada, muchos de nosotros huímos del hambre y de la guerra. Pero no tenemos miedo porque aunque todos los organismos nos dejen solos sabemos que somos seres humanos y que no hemos hecho nada, que los asesinos no están entre nosotros, y que al menos dios sabe todo eso.

We ask all social organizations to join this call for justice.
We ask all organizations that witnessed the facts to denounce them.
We demand from the Spanish government to respect art. 157 of the immigration law.
We demand from the Spanish government the end of torture at the border in Ceuta and Melilla.

[English translation | main story]

>>> ÚLTIMA HORA: Firma el Manifiesto por lo ocurrido en la frontera de Melilla.

>>> 01-9-2005: Los inmigrantes continúan asediados por los militares marroquíes


>>>31-8-2005>>> Redada contra los inmigrantes que denunciaron la muerte de sus compañeros


>>>30-8-2005>>> Se eleva al número de dos los inmigrantes asesinados en la frontera de Melilla [por migrantes en tránsito, desde marruecos]

El pasado domingo 28 de agosto, un grupo numeroso de migrantes trató de atravesar la valla fronteriza que separa Marruecos de Melilla. La guardia civil y la policía marroquí reprimieron duramente y con armas no reglamentarias.El subdelegado de gobierno de Melilla admite la muerte de al menos uno de los migrantes, cuyo cadaver se encuentra del lado marroquí. El portavoz de la Guardia Civil reconoce :"lo volverán a intentar".

::Comunicado de los migrantes protagonistas

[por migrantes en tránsito + indymedia tánger]

"A las dos de la madrugada un grupo fuímos a intentar cruzar la alambrada que separa Marruecos de Melilla. La Guardia Civil nos atacó utilizando, como siempre, todos los métodos más duros de tortura. La porra eléctrica, las esposas, gases lacrimógenos, balas de goma, balas reales. Estaban pegando mucho a uno de los compañeros, hasta que no se levantaba. Abrieron la puerta pequeña de la alambrada y deportaron a todo el grupo a Marruecos junto al cuerpo del compañero. El cuerpo muerto yace junto a nosotros en este bosque esperando que alguna autoridad internacional que se haga eco de todo ésto. La Guardia Civil puede asesinarnos con total impunidad."

A las cuatro y media ,hora española, un compañero camerunés nos explicaba su situación. No es la primera vez ni la última que los inmigrantes subsaharianos en tránsito por Marruecos sufren agresiones de este nivel, sólo que hoy a alguien se le fue la mano. Ejercer esta violencia es fácil porque las víctimas desaparecen en territorio marroquí.

Desde Ceuta se han documentado 271 deportaciones ilegales efectuadas por la Guardia Civil en los últimos tres meses...La mayoría fueron antes torturados.

Pedimos Justicia para el compañero asesinado.

Pedimos que la Guardia Civil de las fronteras de Ceuta y Melilla sea exhaustivamente investigada.

Pedimos al PSOE que no subcontrate a terceros países la violación de derechos humanos.

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SOS Racismo pide una investigación exhaustiva