Yemeni emigration.. escaping from death to death
English - Sunday 19 February 2023 الساعة 04:22 pm
Taiz, NewsYemen, Sumaya al-Faqih:
When the word is for bullets, the homeland is no longer a place fit for survival. A difficult equation that many Yemenis deduced during the eight years of war, and under its pressure, hundreds and perhaps thousands of young people chose the path of emigration in search of a life.
But what none of them thought about was that escaping from the hell of war is the beginning of a journey to inevitable death. There is no difference between dying from a missile, a missile, or a landmine, or drowning in a raging sea on the way to migration.
forced displacement
The IOM says about irregular migrants on its website: Mixed movements (or mixed migration) refer to flows of people who travel together, generally irregularly, on the same routes and using the same modes of transport, but for different reasons. Men, women and children traveling in this way either find themselves forced from their homes by armed conflict or persecution, or they move in search of a better life.
Two sides of one war
Displacement and smuggling are two sides of one war, two lines that meet at one goal, escaping from fear and terror for fear that is worse and more important, and for an unknown person who does not have mercy on the miserable. With these words, Ahmed Issa began his speech, which added that: The one who dies by drowning in the sea while fleeing from his country is nothing but an example and a picture of a people drowning in their tragedies and he stayed in the hell of his country, as we drown millions of times every second, we die and become homeless, and the country that expels its children from the borders of life does not care about us.
Youth like perfume, tossed by the waves and caught by rocks, eaten by whales and thrown their crumbs on the sand, with no known homeland and identity.
Dying of cold
Young people who no longer fear death after life has become more painful than death itself.
The Yemeni embassy in Germany reported, on Wednesday 1/25/2023, that three Yemenis died of frostbite while crossing the Belarusian border, to escape the war and the deteriorating conditions in their country.
Luck and suffering
Sometimes some Yemeni immigrants are lucky and survive after suffering with the border guards, and many times they are killed.
Abdullah al-Hashemi, a Yemeni youth who emigrated through smuggling, says: "Our travel was a stroke of luck, either we escaped and crossed the border, or we were caught, and here the suffering begins, or in most trips a person dies without mercy. On one of the borders of European countries, a group of young people, our immigrant friends, was caught under the weight of Beatings and abuse by the border guards strip them of their clothes and leave them naked as they were created, and they are beaten until some of them faint from the severity of the pain they are exposed to.”
Al-Hashemi adds: You can imagine a person with a weak body who has no power or strength, stripped of all his clothes, without exception, and subjected to torture and beatings in a very cold atmosphere with temperatures far below zero. From the severity of the beating, they work to wake him up by any means, rebuke him and beat him, and let him go back to where he came from in this form (naked of clothes, stripped of his dignity), exposed to predators in the forests and deserts in which he walks, and robbing him of all his money, phones, and clothes.
Coming back insistently
Abdullah Al-Hashemi's colleague and companion on his journey in immigration, Khaled Wahhab, says:
Despite all the misfortunes that happen to the immigrant, as my friend Abdullah talked about, we go back, with determination and determination, after collecting what we can of the remnants of a human being in us, to go back ball after ball to try to reach the point of the desired goal, leaving a life and a homeland that was not merciful to us, not much different from the sea and not Except a big treacherous sea.
path of migration
Journalist Jamal Muhammad says: In the time of the first two in Yemen, the foreign trips of the fathers and grandfathers were purely commercial, and the name of Yemen was linked to global trade because our country possessed major routes for global trade and export of products.
Unfortunately, the name of Yemen today has become associated with war, and its main sea routes have merged mainly with displacement and flight to emigrate and seek refuge in Western and African countries.
change in the equation
Today, the equation has changed. This is how the journalist Jamal Al-Hadith added, as he emphasized that after Yemen was a safe haven and the main destination for African migrants, Yemenis are fleeing from the scourge of war and the struggle for power in their country to African countries.
After the homeland and the thieves of the homeland forgot them. After they became hungry, sick, slept on the sidewalks, cold and thirsty, they no longer feared death and became more daring to confront it after they had given up on continuing hunger, poverty and unemployment in their homelands.
soft migration
For his part, political analyst Musa al-Maqtari said: “Travelling is smuggling is one of the negative effects of the war.
In addition to that, there is migration that we do not notice and it does not appear on the surface. We only notice those who evade, and then accidents happen. We are losing capabilities and brains, and the solution to all of this is for the war to stop and the state to be rebuilt, and then it can come up with solutions to such problems.
Finally, the most important question that haunts every Yemeni emigrant remains: How long will the country keep expelling us away to death!?
