CPOY 70 Interpretive Project Bronze: Return to Sender
In december 2014 the Danish Government presented a new report concluding that it would be safe for Eritrean refugees in Denmark to return home to the country they just fled. A conclusion far different from Amnesty Internationals statement, and the many experts who criticized the report. At a closed down hospital outside Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of Eritreans makes a decision. They want to tell about the conditions they fled from. But they need to tell the story as a group, and anonymous. Because they are all concerned about the consequences for their families back home. These are their stories, as they tell them:
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Slide 2 of 9
December 2, 2014
She serves the statutory military-service. The kind that can last for a lifetime. But a serious kidney-disease makes her tied to the bed and she fails coming to work. Soon she is hospitalized. As punishment for her not making her military service the authorities arrest her father. The family gathers money and pay the bail, and she flees with her freshly operated wounds. They never manage to heal and gets worse throughout the long travel. Her hand reaches for the tip of her shirt, and she carefully lifts it up while turned away from the rest of the group.
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / Høgskolgen i Oslo og Akershus
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