FW: Merir Hagerawi HAzen

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Mr. Hagerawi_1

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Apr 7, 2011, 11:15:07 AM4/7/11

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Dear Harestay_78,

Thanks for your suggestions, sure, we should share our grief of the terrible tragedy of our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea.

May Almighty GOD grant them eternal life and rest their soul in peace.

I look forward to seeing you all in paltalk today

Ms Akbrotn Adnaqotn hawukum,

Hagerawi_1

Our cultural diversity is a source for our Unity in a Democratic Eritrea !!!!!!

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:21:02 -0700
From: nkd...@yahoo.com
Subject: Merir Hagerawi HAzen
To: hager...@hotmail.com

Selam Zkeberka Haw Hagerawi,

I am suggesting that The Strong Opposition Eritreans Paltlk room share the the time of condolences to the deep Haerawi Tragedy today's Paltak time. I prefer to be the ONLY and ONLY event for today.

Our family members are are in a Deep Condolences nation wide.

Very sorry this to happen to our our poeple and nation!

Hareatay78 (Kiflemariam)

Haile Kiflai

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Apr 8, 2011, 6:49:07 AM4/8/11

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Dearest brother Hagerawi and all others.

I am one of the family members of this sad incident.

My suggestion about this incident is that we should think beyond talking about it at the Paltalk rooms. Please try to find volunteer lawyers or humanitarian lawyers who are interested to take our case to the international court. Our Eritrean brothers and sisters were gunned down by those criminals who don’t even consider us as human beings with the right to live in the world like them. This time, we are not blaming the Mediterranean Sea for the death of our Eritrean brothers and sisters. We are blaming governments, groups or organizations who committed this brutal massacre on our people.

Let’s be together and let’s work hand in hand till this case is investigated in front of justice. Let’s show the world that we are advocates of our beloved Eritrean brothers and sisters who were killed irresponsibly at the Mediterranean Sea.

335 African refugees are murdered out at sea. EveryOne asks the EU to open an inquiry. Lampedusa, April 6th, 2011. On the night of Monday 22nd, 335 sub-Saharan

refugees, including women and children, mostly Ethiopians and Eritreans, set sail from Tripoli (Libya) hoping to reach the Italian coast and flee from

persecution.

The boat, driven by a smuggler, went missing just a few hours later. A relative of two of the passengers on the boat raised the alarm by contacting Habeshia

and EveryOne Group, who immediately alerted the authorities to ask for patrols to be sent into international waters and requested the intervention of the

UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

“This morning, after two weeks of inaction and indifference from the authorities and international institutions, we heard from Don Mussie Zerai that the

bodies of those migrants, riddled with bullets, are being washed ashore.” The news was reported by Roberto Malini, Matteo Pegoraro and Dario Picciau, co-presidents

of the international humanitarian organization EveryOne Group. “It would appear that the boat carrying the refugees was attacked in the Mediterranean,

and that the shots were so rapid that the migrants did not have time to sound the alarm with the satellite phone they’d taken on board.

This is a disturbing episode which suggests a very dramatic scenario that NATO, in cooperation with the United Nations, should look into. We are calling

on the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, to report to Parliament on the matter, and the European Parliament to establish a commission of inquiry.

We also believe it is necessary for the Council of Europe, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to exert

pressure so that the European States convene the

International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission in Berne,

whose secretariat is managed by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in Switzerland, which is the depositary state of the Geneva Convention

and Additional Protocols. The authorities must do everything in their power to identify the perpetrators of this massacre which is not only a serious violation

of international humanitarian law, it also represents a crime against humanity as understood by the statute of the International Criminal Court of the

Hague.”

EveryOne Group also criticizes Europe’s failure to send personnel and vessels to patrol the international waters between Italy and Libya, especially after

the tragedy last night when a boat capsized with 200 Somalis and Eritreans on board (of which only 47 were rescued). “These tragedies out at sea” continue

Malini, Pegoraro and Picciau, “highlight the lack of rescue plans for refugees. We need to deploy resources - both boats and aircraft - and modern rescue

equipment, seeing the great number of migrants who are setting sail as we write despite the adverse weather conditions.

There is a lack of advanced monitoring and logistics able to act urgently and effectively when the engine failure of a vessel is reported or an SOS is

launched. It would appear that Europe is more focused on actions that will prevent the flow of refugees and getting round the Geneva Convention than implementing

the necessary humanitarian policies.”