キルギス支援のお願い

Alexからメールを頂きましたので、転載します。

皆様、

日本ではサッカーＷ杯と参院選挙で盛り上がって、同じアジアにあるキルギス南部で起こっている悲劇は殆ど無視されています。繁栄の弧どうのこうのを外交の柱の一つとして取り上げていた日本政府は緊急支援策をまったく考えていないようです。現段階では暴動の原因や経過に関しましては不明確なところは多いですがであるが、国連、現地当局、目撃者の証言等に出ている死者は２０００人前後、難民は40万前後という数字は確かだと思います。私が所属している研究科は中央アジアから多くの留学生を受入、そのうちキルギス南部出身の人、家族が被害に遭った学生が数人います。彼らと他の中央アジアからの留学生が何かをしなければいけないと考え、支援策を作りだした。この悲劇は近代や資本主義に関係しているかどうかが私にはわかりませんが、”連帯”を訴えている方々の出番ではないかと思います。私見ですが、真の連帯とか闘争とか自らの犠牲を伴わなければいけません。下記のように皆様が自分の昼ごはんを一、二回を犠牲にすれば遠くにある難民キャンプにいる誰かがちょっとでも助かるかもしれません。宜しくお願いします。

尚、このメールを他の関係しそうなメーリングリストに転送していただければ幸いです。

アレックス

Dear friends,

Less than a fortnight ago terrible events broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan, an area with a sizeable Uzbek minority. In what many sources have described as a well-planned ethnic unrest dozens of people - most of them ethnic Uzbeks - were killed, thousands were wounded and tens of thousands displaced. In the first week close to 100 thousand refugees crossed the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border, mostly women, children and elderly, running for their lives.

We don't know whatever was the cause of this violence and whoever stands behind it. What we know is that tens of thousands of innocent people are suffering every day. There are women who have lost their
husbands, sons, and brothers. There are children who have lost both parents. There are elderly people who need special care. There are dozens of wounded people.

These people have left all their belongings behind. In the hell that broke loose, most of them crossed the border empty-handed. Having been placed in refugee camps in three provinces in Uzbekistan, these people need the most basic of things: food, water, clothes, medicines, toilet paper, soap, toothpaste, diapers, etc.

The people of Uzbekistan and some international organisations are trying to help, but that help is far from enough. People are collecting old clothes, buying flour and rice, sending t-shirts and diapers - but for the crowd of a hundred thousand it is still very, very little. What we need is a healthy stream of help, what we have now is a trickle.

We, students at Tsukuba University, have created a relief fund for the Osh refugees. We need other students in Japan to help us. In the name of the innocent refugees, we are calling to everybody who wants to help.

Every yen we collect will make a difference. Just think about it: money spent on a student lunch here (about 1000 yen) will feed a family in a refugee camp. It will buy about 20 kg of flour, 6 kg of sugar, 30-40 flatbreads. It will buy meters of simple cotton cloth from which clothes and bedding may be made. It will buy medicines for the wounded and the elderly.

We will send your donations to Tashkent, where a group of friends who are willing to help will buy the most necessary products suggested by humanitarian organisations and send them to the Ferghana Valley (money is not accepted as aid). We will post regular updates about the progress of our support to our group in Facebook, "Support to Osh Refugees from Students in Japan."

These innocent children and women need your help. Whatever the amount you donate will feed them, make them happier, give them hope for the future. Please don't stand aside.

Our bank details:

ACCOUNT HOLDER: "SUPPORT TO OSH REFUGEES", REPRESENTATIVE: ATAEVA GULRANO (サポート　トゥ　オシュ　レヒュージース　ダイヒョウ　アタエヴァ　グルラノ)
BANK: SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
ACCOUNT NUMBER: ORDINARY ACCOUNT 0158487
BRANCH OFFICE: BRANCHCODE 244, TSUKUBA
SWIFT: SMBCJPJT