>>>>> Europe's detention camps of shame:
>>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>> We asked if we could look round the closed detention centres and were
>>>>> told that was not possible. When we approached the perimeter fence of
>>>>> one of them, we were angrily waved away. The conditions looked
>>>>> rudimentary, with a shortage of shelter and washing facilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> They are grateful for the help the Maltese have given them, but they
>>>>> say the conditions in the detention centres are very harsh.
>>>>>
>>>>> They have to claim asylum in Malta to avoid being sent home, and then
>>>>> they are stuck. Under EU rules, they have to stay in the country in
>>>>> which they first arrived.
>>>>>
>>>>> "It's like a trap," said Warsame Ali Garare, a well-educated Somali in
>>>>> his 20s. "You can't continue, you can't go back, and the Maltese don't
>>>>> want you here. The dream is to leave Malta. Everybody wants to leave."
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a kind of perverse reversal of the American immigrants' dream.
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4365030.stm
>>>>>
>>>>> Those who make it to Malta face an uncertain future. They are held in
>>>>> closed detention centres for up to 18 months while their claims are
>>>>> processed. If they are granted refugee status or humanitarian
>>>>> protection, they are released to live in open centres.
>>>>>
>>>>> In one of the centres, the migrants are only allowed out of their rooms
>>>>> for two hours of sunshine a week.
>>>>>
>>>>> The backlash is not just political. There were arson attacks last year
>>>>> against church groups and journalists who publicly supported the
>>>>> migrants.
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283736.stm
>>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes-sir-ee - You Europeans sure know how to round-up people and stick
>>>>> them in camps.
>>>>>
>>> Clean up your own act first before bitching about Guantanamo Bay.
>>>
>> I definitely fail to see the connection.
