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A critical review of asylum policy in Switzerland: insights, analyses, testimonials, and the efforts of grassroots activists in French-speaking Switzerland

VE 78 / June 2000

With the deportation of tens of thousands of Kosovars, all those who contributed to demonizing this community, from federal authorities to Zurich xenophobes, are rejoicing. It took them nearly ten years of waiting, but this time will be the right one. For months, the Federal Office for Refugees (ODR) and the Federal Department of Justice and Police (DFJP) have not stopped hammering their will to use force, and even though Bernard Kouchner, at the head of UNMIK, forced Madame Metzler to abandon for the moment the expulsion of minorities and to postpone forced repatriations somewhat, the summer undoubtedly holds some fine police operations in store for us. Never has an expulsion operation been of this magnitude. Never has it been based on such a determined policy of rejection.

Editorial | «Kosovo Albanians: Out!»

Returns to Kosovo | Sick, disabled, elderly, widows with children

Testimonial | Humanitarian Action 2000: «Why the Year 1992?»

Asylum Orientation Funding Report Deterrence, Repression, and Removal

Procedure | Mutual Aid Work Representatives: An Alibi Function

Return | When the ODR wants to get rid of a disabled woman «A concrete project was able to be developed...»

Publication «Asylum in Switzerland»: Fact or fiction?

Testimonial | A Belgian Story: «I Was Unaware»

SWISS CHRONICLE | March 30 to May 31, 2000

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