lego 44,165 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 A Czech police officer writes a number on the hand of a refugee. (September 2, 2015) Reuters Human rights activists say that writing numbers on migrants' arms and hands evokes the Holocaust. Italian Jewish leaders criticized Czech police for marking numbers on the arms of more than 200 refugees, saying that it recalled the Holocaust. News reports that “dozens of refugees were literally branded as if they were cattle at the slaughterhouse, inevitably recalling the darkest period of contemporary history, are just the latest in a series of disturbing events against which the voice of all civil and advanced societies must be firm,” Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement published on the UCEI website. On Wednesday Czech police were seen in news photographs using felt-tipped pens to mark the hands and arms of refugees, mainly from Syria, taken off a train Tuesday at the Breclav train station near the border crossing with Austria. The images sparked outrage among human rights activists and others. The practice, said Rome Jewish community president Ruth Dureghello, is “unacceptable.” She added: “It is an image we cannot bear, which recalls to mind the procedure at the entrance of Nazi extermination camps, when millions of men, women and children were marked with a number, like animals, and they were sent to die.” “It is time that Europe understands that the phenomenon of immigration, while complex, cannot be confronted with methods that are repressive and offensive to human dignity,” Dureghello said. A Czech police spokesperson said many refugees had no documents and did not speak English or other European languages and were tagged in order to identify them and keep families together. http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.674377 "immigrants should be tracked like FedEx packages" - teas. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Saw that too. Disgusting what some Central European countries do. *looks at Hungary and Czech* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sia 314 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 they couldn't speak english and they were trying to keep families together.... idk why when i first saw this that i thought they were like taking and iron rod to their skin ... Don't be insecure if you heart is pure, you're still good to me if you're a bad kid baby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alii 2,039 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I agree, that's very offensive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,776 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Saw that too. Disgusting what some Central European countries do. *looks at Hungary and Czech*It already surprises me Hungary tries to stop migrants from entering neighbouring countries instead of just letting them all go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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