ГУЛаг Палестины
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FROM FAMILY METELNITSKY. MONTREAL, Desember, 1996.
To Amnesty International's London Office
Why WeTurn To Amnesty International?
1) Because our complains to Amnesty International from Israel played if not the main,a very important role during all the 2 immigration
hearings in our case. 2) Because indirectly or even directly (from a particular point of view) they insinuated that we must be punished for our
contacts with Amnesty International. 3) Because what happened during our immigration hearing here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is so
incredible and horrible that will encourage human right violations everywhere on a wider scale. 4) Because during the hearing the
immigration officer falsificated Amnesty International's (and other human rights organizations') documents and lied about them. 6)
Because if a family comes to a country (which accepts refugees under the Geneva Convention act) but faces abuses, ungrounded
accusations, threats, hatred and injustice within an immigration court room - that means a mayhem for the human rights, placing the very
basis of human rights in jeopardy. 7) Because we are absolutely certain (and we have presented undenieble evidences to the immigration
bord) that we are going to be beatten, abused or even killed if we will be turned back to Israel.
We came to Israel in 1990 ; as many other people we had a hope for a better life. As the most of Russian-speaking people we were
"welcomed" by a malicious anger, the state unti-Russian propaganda and the most severe discrimination. Our son was 15 when we came
to Israel. Each of us (including our son) was assaulted, abused, beaten, discriminated against.The ignorance of what is going on in Israel
with the Russian-speaking people can not make what we and our friends suffered from in Israel unreal. Batteries, assaults, abuses were
real and happened to us in real life. If my son could come to school and could hear a discussion about the last article in a Hebrew
newspaper, in which "Russians" were called sons of a bitch, prostitutes, fools and thieves: was it "unreal"? And the computer games in
Hebrew accompanied by songs with words like "Russians, go home":They were as real as the real life. And the social climate in Israel is so
horrible that if a child is beaten at school "because he's Russian" he is forced to feel guilty himself as if he's guilty in not being an Israeli
but being a Russian.
Any person with conciseness (a journalist, an immigration official, a human right organization official) could take a translator from Hebrew,
go to a library or to an archive and find articles in Hebrew newspapers which have highly aggressive untie-Russian contest. And what about
thousands of articles in Russian newspapers published in Israel about what can be called almost a genocide against "Russians"?
When they began to call my son to a draft board (because Israel has a compulsory military service) he asked an alternative military service
each time they called him: because he was afraid of hostility towards "Russians" within the Israeli army and also because of the rule that a
single son can not be taken into the front-line units against his will. They gave him no decision, but kept ordering him to came to the draft
point again and again. One day a new routine order to come to the draft point arrived. My son was ordered to come one day - but the order
have been sent one day later then the date of his appearance. A couple of other days past before he got the order. But as soon as he got
it he immediately went to the draft board.
When he came they have arrested him incriminating him a disobedience to the order to come. No excuse, no explanation were admitted.
Everything happened so fast that there is no doubt: they were prepared. So, they have submitted this order for him later then the date he
was called to intentionally. He was accused in a refusal to come to the draft board (the ignored his voluntarial arrival) and in avoiding the
military service. They have treated him like if he already was a soldier and flied from a military unit. He was also given a soldier's number as if
he was a soldier when in reality he never entered the army and never wearied a military uniform. When he admitted that he's going to
become mentally ill because of the military prison they refused to give him a Russian-speaking psychologist, and the Hebrew- speaking
psychologist couldn't speak with our son, but wrote a report based on ungrounded insinuations. When later a Russian-speaking
psychologist appeared he translated him that report but told that it is impossible now to dispute what the Israeli wrote.
When our son was in the military prison severe humiliations were committed over him. All the violations of the rules and of the moral norms
in his case were too innumerable to mention them. During his imprisonment our son was transformed from a healthy person to a mentally ill
boy. When he was released from the military prison (he was in the prison more then 3 months; no charges were posed against him, no court
took place) the military medical committee recognized him as a mentally ill person. When he was just imprisoned he was recognized as a
fully healthy person suitable to the military service.He received some treatment here, in Canada, and the immigration board know it. We did
everything we could to release our son from the military prison. But the civil lawyers refused to take his case as soon as they heard about