WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Published by deviousdiva April 5th, 2006 in Personal.Jasmina Drazic and her husband Zoran are giving up their fight to stay in Cyprus after a long battle with the authorities to renew their visas. Despite having lived and worked there legally for seven years, Zoran was deported six months ago. The couple's two children have had to shoulder the burden of arranging for their departure because Jasmina has been in prison for the past month.
This is the email her husband sent to the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
Right, I believe that’s it. Like a bad joke. After six months of separated life and exactly one month of my wife in prison, we are giving up. Enough is enough. We are giving up on human rights, children’s right, we just want to be together. We do not want any more adjournments, courts, any more promises for avrio or methavrio or deftera or paraskevi. That’s it.
Now, I believe, everyone can relax in immigration, government, everywhere. My wife is leaving your country. My kids as well. Immediately after the school year is finished.
Still, I can’t understand how a government can give you all the rights to invest money and open a company, and after few month they say – you have to leave all of that and go wherever you like. Is that right?
Anyway. Best regards, and one more thing. I wish to thank all Cypriots except your government, and be sure, I will be your the best ambassador everywhere in the world.”
I am completely disgusted by this complete disregard for the law, (an EU-directive requires that people living in European countries for over five years must be granted long-term residency rights) and for Human Rights. What can I say? I am speechless. I wish Jasmina and her family all the very best in the future and hope that wherever they end up living they will be treated with more respect and dignity than they have received from the immigration authorities in Cyprus. Full story here.
Incredible. From what I read in your link, there is no mention of criminality in this family. Their children enrolled in school, govt. approval for them to open a business and then deported. I can’t imagine what Jasmina is going through having to handle everything from a prison cell. How can the authorities justify leaving two children on their own … without either parent??? Shame on the Cypriot government. I doubt the reason for their deportation was serious enough to warrant the suffering heaped upon this family. I wish them all the luck in the world in finding a better life elsewhere.
This just such an appaling story, I can’t even begin to describe my contempt and anger at such an abuse of human rights etc. etc.
that’s crazy. i don’t get it, at all. then again, I have heard that governent functions pretty arbitrarily in places like Cyprus. Not to excuse what happened to them at all. it’s totally awful. they must be heartbroken.