Kompass-newsletter No. 139 - 11/2025
Sudan: Stop the Massacre in El Fasher - Information compiled by Migration Control +++ 14 November in Berlin: Event - From War to Prison: The Criminalisation of Sudanese Refugees in Greece +++ 18 November in Frankfurt: Day conference on municipalities as safe havens +++ 26 November in Frankfurt: Medico event on 10 years of the Summer of Migration +++ Alarm Phone and Mediterranea: Stop the shootings at sea! +++ Monitor TV report from 30 October on the complicity of the EU and Libya +++ Sea Watch report: 60 Libyan attacks at sea as EU rolls out red carpet for militias, new data shows +++ Tunisia: Activities of human rights organisation FTDES ‘suspended’ by government +++ Interview by Pro Asyl with FTDES: ‘Tunisia is an open-air prison for those seeking protection’ +++ Reviews: Transnational Chain of Actions: Conference in Rabat; Stop MoU Action Days in Rome; Start of trial against Mediterranea in Ragusa; Conference against ICMPD in Vienna; Protests against detention camps in Albania +++ Outlook: 18 December 2025: Stop the Violence: Rise Up Against Frontex's Training for Border Brutality!
Dear friends,
On 18 October 2025, Refugees in Libya set up a stage in the centre of Rome, where around 50 men, women and children collectively bore witness to their suffering and struggles in Libya and here in Europe to this day. With powerful voices and in a successful mix of performance and personal accounts, they presented their accusations and demands. Some impressions captured on video can be found on the transborder website: https://trans-border.net/index.php/chain-of-action-2025/videos-pictures/ . This impressive manifestation was opened with a ‘Rage Poem’ – a poem of anger that we would like to document here.
RAGE POEM
„Even under the sun — our world is dark. Our world is chaotic. Our world is nightmarish. Our world is betrayal. Our world is shame.
Rage against Tripoli — against its prisons, its militias, its torture camps, its crimes.
Rage against Italy — against her ministers, her signatures, her complicity, rage against her hate.
Rage against Brussels — against the architects of border death and denial.
Rage against Geneva — against the white papers that bury the truth in reports.
We have rebelled against Tripoli. We have rebelled against Italy. We have rebelled against Brussels. We have rebelled against Geneva. We have rebelled against the silence of the world. We have rebelled — all the more so, that we may not be erased. Rebellion has been our voice — our lifeline.
We know. Knowing is a burden, for we know our pain and its inflictors.
We know. Knowing is a wound that does not close — unless justice is served. Although we know — we are still here.
We are the remnants of the forgotten sea, the faces Europe pretends not to see. We were not born to drown on high seas in search of safety. We were not born to kneel in submission to slavery, torture, and rape. We were not born to be counted by surveillance drones of Frontex and more.
We are not statistics. We are not shadows. We are the evidence — walking. Our breath — is rebellion. Our steps — rebellion. Even our silence — rebellion. Even our pain has learned to rise and walk.
Europe calls it migration — We experienced it as refuge. Europe calls it border control — we experienced it as deliberate murders. What Europe calls cooperation — we experienced it as slavery.
Our name, our body, our women, our face, our humanity, are not MoUs replicated in Libya, Khartoum, Rabat, Tunis, Egypt, Turkey, Niamey and more.
Our lives are not their signatures. Our children are not their votes. We will not be footnotes in their democracy. Even under the sun — our world is dark. But we — we are the ones who will bring the light.“
With solidarity greetings,
the Kompass-Crew