Many Kurds arriving in Switzerland suffered torture
Many Kurds arriving in Switzerland suffered torture
Most of the patients of Swiss Doctor Heinrich Klaesui, who deals with torture victims, are Kurdish people tortured in Turkey. According to Dr. Klaesui, 70 percent of Turkish citizen Kurdish people coming to Swiss were exposed to torture.
An unnamed Kurdish war victim goes out when he can’t stand the iron welding sound in the train manufacturing factory where he has been working for three years. The Kurdish refugee thinks he is about to get drowned and has to receive a treatment for a week. He further can’t sleep well and complains of back pain.
And with the time, the ironworks reminds him of the prison cell. Dr. Heinrich Klaesui gives place to this precedent in his report on torture victims.
The unnamed refugee is one of the patients of Dr. Klaesui who works in the Red Cross torture treatment centre in Wabern city. Following Kurdish people, ex Yugoslavia citizens most commonly come to the center which is applied by average 300 torture victims a year.
According to Dr. Klaesui, who has been together with victims for years, 70 percent of Turkish citizen Kurdish people coming to Swiss were exposed to torture. Remarking that torture is an indispensable political tool, Dr. Klaesui says that they don’t inform the authorities to enable the asylum applicants stay in Swiss. In other words, he points out that victims ask for assistance for treatment, not for staying in Swiss.
The Swiss Doctor represented his report in the war victims themed seminar series held in Lindach church. During the seminars that will last till 10 February, the refugees who are still under the effects of war will be brought to table.
Besides Dr. Klaesui, human rights defender Andreas Wigger, human rights expert Jörg Künzli from University of Bern and ethnologist Hans-Rudolf Wicker are also among the panelists of the seminars.
Dr. Klaesui doesn’t offer a medical treatment and advices victims not to stay in an extra closed areas and to live in outdoors and to commune with nature.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
An unnamed Kurdish war victim goes out when he can’t stand the iron welding sound in the train manufacturing factory where he has been working for three years. The Kurdish refugee thinks he is about to get drowned and has to receive a treatment for a week. He further can’t sleep well and complains of back pain.
And with the time, the ironworks reminds him of the prison cell. Dr. Heinrich Klaesui gives place to this precedent in his report on torture victims.
The unnamed refugee is one of the patients of Dr. Klaesui who works in the Red Cross torture treatment centre in Wabern city. Following Kurdish people, ex Yugoslavia citizens most commonly come to the center which is applied by average 300 torture victims a year.
According to Dr. Klaesui, who has been together with victims for years, 70 percent of Turkish citizen Kurdish people coming to Swiss were exposed to torture. Remarking that torture is an indispensable political tool, Dr. Klaesui says that they don’t inform the authorities to enable the asylum applicants stay in Swiss. In other words, he points out that victims ask for assistance for treatment, not for staying in Swiss.
The Swiss Doctor represented his report in the war victims themed seminar series held in Lindach church. During the seminars that will last till 10 February, the refugees who are still under the effects of war will be brought to table.
Besides Dr. Klaesui, human rights defender Andreas Wigger, human rights expert Jörg Künzli from University of Bern and ethnologist Hans-Rudolf Wicker are also among the panelists of the seminars.
Dr. Klaesui doesn’t offer a medical treatment and advices victims not to stay in an extra closed areas and to live in outdoors and to commune with nature.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
