当难民缝上他们的嘴 欧洲必须开始讨论 [英国媒体]

understandably, aid workers said it was hard to communicate with them. But when seven asylum seekers, most of them Iranian, sewed shut their lips on Monday in northern Greece, it was nevertheless easy to grasp the broad thrust of their message.

这是可以理解的，救援人员说很难和这些难民沟通。周一希腊北部，七名难民（大多数是伊朗人）缝上了他们的嘴唇，但掌握他们所有的信息很容易。

Hundreds of thousands of people of all nationalities have traipsed northwards from Greece so far this year, in search of safety and a better life. Now Macedonia, the first country on the route, has started to block the path of anyone not from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. These seven men have reacted to this sealing of the border by sealing their mouths.The symbolism doesn’t end there: the seven protesters aren’t the only ones who are having trouble communicating. Their predicament is a symptom of a lack of dialogue between the countries of Europe – one that is exacerbating the chaos ofthe refugee crisis.

到目前为止今年已经有成千上万不同国籍的人为了寻找安全和更好的生活，经过希腊往北走。这条路线上的第一个国家，马其顿王国已经开始封锁道路，除了来自叙利亚、伊拉克或者阿富汗的难民，别人不放行。这七个男人用缝嘴的方式表达抗议。这种行为在那儿并不鲜见：并不是只有这七个男才有交流困难。他们的窘境是欧洲国家之间缺乏交流的体现——这会让难民危机恶化。

Macedonia’s move was prompted by Slovenia’s unexpected decision last week to return dozens of Moroccans to Croatia – prompting panic in countries further to the south, which feared this move heralded a permanent change in Slovenian policy. It didn’t: Croatia refused to take back the Moroccans, the Slovenians shrugged, and things proceeded again as usual. But Macedonia wasn’t convinced, and decided to pre-empt any decision that would see so-called economic migrants trapped on its soil – by blocking their passage themselves.

马其顿王国的举动是因为上星期斯洛文尼亚意外决定将几十个摩洛哥人遣返回克罗地亚——这让恐慌向南部国家蔓延，它们担心这一行为预示着斯洛文尼亚（难民）政策的永久性变化。但是它没有：克罗地亚拒绝接受这些摩洛哥人，斯洛文尼亚只是耸耸肩，然后一切照旧。然而马其顿王国不相信而且决定先发制人。所以我们可以看到他们通过自己封锁道路，让那些所谓的经济难民困在原地（本土）。

The result is the current logjam on the Greek-Macedonian border. Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are being allowed through. But Eritreans, Yemenis, Somalians, Moroccans and Iranians – among others – are not. It’s a sad example of Europe’s lack of joined-up thinking. Eritreans are being turned away from Macedonia, on the assumption that EU countries might later do the same, and therefore leave them trapped on Macedonian soil.

这就导致了希腊-马其顿边境的僵局。叙利亚、伊拉克和阿富汗人可以通过。但是厄立特里亚人、也门人、索马里人、摩洛哥人和伊朗人等等都不允许通过。这是一个欧洲缺乏联合思维的悲伤例子。欧盟国家可能会做同样事情的，并让那些难民困在马其顿的领土上，在这一前提下，马其顿已经遣返厄立特里亚人。

But the EU as a whole recently gave Eritreans privileged status and agreed that several thousand of them should be formally resettled in Europe. By contrast, Macedonia is still accepting Afghans – even though Germany, whose policies have the largest bearing on the refugee crisis, says it doesn’t particularly want to welcome them. Similarly, the Greek asylum system gives Afghans much less priority than Somalians and Yemenis – but the latter can’t now get into Macedonia, while the former still can.

但是欧盟作为一个整体给厄尔特力亚人特权并允许他们其中的几千人可以在欧洲定居。相比较而言，马其顿王国仍旧接受阿富汗难民——尽管德国（它的政策对难民危机的影响最大）表示他们并不特别欢迎阿富汗人。同样的，希腊的收容制度给阿富汗人更少的特权，相比较也门难民和索马里难民而言。——但是也门人和索马里人已经不准进入马其顿，阿富汗人仍然能通过。

Croatia’s interior minister, Ranko Ostojic, summed up the arbitrariness of the decision making when I asked him yesterday how his Balkan neighbours could prioritise asylum seekers based on their nationality. “It’s very difficult to say,” he admitted, citing a country like Yemen as an example. “What is Yemen? Is it in a war or not?”

克罗尼亚的内政部长，Ranko Ostojic总结了决策的随意性。昨天当我问他怎么根据国籍把巴尔干半岛上的邻居当做优先考虑的难民，他说：“这很难说”他承认，拿也门做例子，“什么是也门？在打仗吗？”

Yemen is embroiled in a very vicious war – and the fact that European officials aren’t aware of such basic details should highlight how ill-advised it is to make up asylum policy on the hoof. But Ostojic’s wider point still stands: cases need to be assessed on an individual basis, and people shouldn’t be refused asylum just because their countries are largely peaceful. The Iranians who tied shut their mouths, for example, may hail from a stable country – but we don’t know whether they themselves have justified reasons to flee persecution from their authoritarian government. Maybe they don’t – but until we find out, no one benefits from keeping them trapped in limbo on a Balkans border.

也门卷入了一场非常邪恶的战争——而欧洲的官员对这种重要的基础细节根本没有意识到，他们做出的难民决策能明智到哪儿去呢？（脑袋一拍，政策就来。）但是更大的问题仍然存在：每个难民的情况都应该建立在个人的基础上进行评估，同时人们不应该因为他们国家没有战争就拒绝这些难民进入。举个例子，这几个缝了自己嘴的伊朗难民也许是来自一个稳定的国家——但是我们不知道他们是否有正当理由逃离迫害他们的独裁政府。也许没有——但直到我们能证明他们（没有之前），没人能从把他们困在巴尔干地区边境的地狱里获利。

Nor does anyone benefit from Europe’s continued refusal to provide safe and legal routes to asylum to significant numbers of Syrian refugees still stuck in the Middle East. It has become abundantly clear this year that Syrians will keep coming from Turkey to Europe while the war in Syria still rages, and while the Turkish government (which houses more Syrian refugees than any other country) has no incentive to properly police its western borders. The result of this unstoppable wave of migration has been the realisation among potential migrants of any nationality that the route is now a free-for-all. Be they a Syrian refugee or a jobless Moroccan, anyone with the money to get to the Turkish coast can now in turn get to Greece (a loophole that it seems at least one of the Paris attackerslikely exploited).

也没有人可以从欧洲继续拒绝提供给仍在中东滞留的大量叙利亚难民安全合法的庇护路径中获利。可以很明显的看出，因为叙利亚战争仍在肆虐，今年叙利亚难民将源源不断地从土耳其到欧洲，再加上土耳其政府（它比其他国家收留了更多的叙利亚难民）在它西边的边境巡逻不给力。造成的结果就是不可阻挡的难民潮（任何国家的移民都可以潜伏在难民中），因为这条路线畅通无阻。不论他是叙利亚难民还是没有工作的摩洛哥人，每个有点钱的人就能从土耳其西海岸到达希腊（看来巴黎恐怖分子利用了这个漏洞）

While the refugees keep coming, the greater the likelihood that chancers and interlopers will try their luck too. Blocking the Macedonian border is an inefficient and arbitrary way of combating this. Creating a system of mass resettlement for refugees in Turkey and the rest of the Middle East would be a much better long-term bet.

随着难民的不断涌入，投机者和闯入者冒险的可能性更大。封锁马其顿边界是打击这种行为低效而武断的方式。在中东和土耳其建立一个大型的难民安置体系，将是一个更好的长期投资。


BJZ00119h ago
Very healthy practice! The men in the picture look young and fit; why are they are not fighting for whatever it is they want instead of running off to the wicked west. If ever the situations in these countries that are currently unstable and at war, get better, where will all their young men be. Let's look after all the women, children and the aged, and send the fit young men back to do their own fighting.

很健康的做法！图上的男人看上去年轻而健康。为什么他们不为想要的东西奋斗？而是一窝蜂的跑到邪恶的西方来。如果这些国家处于战争之中情况不稳定，那就让其变好，这就是你们这些年轻男人该在那里做得。让我们照顾所有的女性、小孩和老人，把这些年轻小伙子送回区，做他们自己的战斗。

DaveTheFirst
When asylum seekers sew up their mouths, Europe must start talking and  Migrants sew mouths shut in protest at Balkan border controls
So what exactly are they, asylum seekers or migrants?

“当寻求庇护者缝上他们的嘴.....”和“移民缝上他们的嘴.....”
所以他们到底是谁？寻求庇护者还是移民？

We don’t know whether the Iranians who tied shut their mouths have justified reasons to flee persecution from their authoritarian government.’
But you're pushing for them to be let in anyway... what the fuck is your agenda, Guardian?

“但是我们不知道他们是否有正当理由逃离迫害他们的独裁政府 ”
但你想要争取他们进来....   你到底想说什么？卫报！

Andiroid DaveTheFirst19h ago
Eradication of the British working class i've concluded.

消灭英国工人阶级，我已经得出结论。

uuuuuuu19h ago
At least a billion people want to come to Europe. If we let them, there will be no Europe. Attempts to guilt-trip us into taking them all must not be allowed to work.
Migration can happen, but the numbers have to be limited and Europe has the final say on who comes.

至少有十亿人要来欧洲。如果我们放他们进来，欧洲就不复存在了。如果试图让我们内疚，放他们所有人进来，那就不准他们工作。
移民可以，但数量有限。在欧洲谁上台谁说了算！

chickpee19h ago
Better they please nail their feet to the floor

最好让他们寸步难行！

Kevin McAlinden19h ago
The only thing Europe should do is Sent them back to where they came from.

欧洲唯一能做的事情就是把他们遣返。

Vendange19h ago
Sorry but I don't buy emotional blackmail.
Their logic is "unless you give me what I want, I will harm myself and it will be all YOUR fault."
So but if they will do that to themselves, what are they likely to do to others?

对不起，感情勒索我不买账。
他们逻辑就是“除非你给我我想要的，不然我就伤害自己，那就是你的错。”
所以，如果他们能那样对自己，难道就不能那样对别人吗？