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	The Black Commentator - Neocolonialism and the Cap Anamur Refugees - Issue 104
		Helicopters and heavy warships were mustered against the Cap Anamur as the refugees looked on in disbelief at the resources brought to bear to block their road to a better life.
		The Cap Anamur, a foundation-supported vessel operated for the purpose of open sea rescue, now finds itself at the center of a controversy that goes far beyond its altruistic charter as issues of immigration policy, acts of humanity, and neocolonialism collide.
		If the Cap Anamur had sailed into Libyan waters and returned the 37 Sudanese refugees to their point of embarkation, this chapter of modern colonialism would be largely unknown.
	www.blackcommentator.com /104/104_guest_culver_pf.html (1478 words)

	Refugees' ship blocked outside Sicilian port: 7/ 12/ 2004
		The captain of the Cap Anamur had called for help, saying the refugees were threatening to jump overboard and that he was heading toward land whether authorized or not, Italian television reported.
		The Cap Anamur is operated by a German aid group of the same name.
		Cap Anamur, a Cologne, Germany-based group, said the Sudanese gave the boat's captain a handwritten asylum application late Saturday and that it was sent on to the German government.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-04/07-12-04/a11wn825.htm (601 words)

	Broadmining: Cap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Caps are generally soft, and often have no brim, or just a peak (like on a baseball cap).
		In the 18th and 19th centuries for example a cap was a kind of head covering made of a flimsy fabric such as muslin; they were worn indoors by married women, or older unmarried women who were "on the shelf" (e.g.
		In some sports, players are given a cap each time they represent their country.
	www.lowide.com /Cap&t= (216 words)

	FIN24 : Empowering Financial Decisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Italian interior ministry, which handles refugee and clandestine immigrants, said the captain had requested help, signalling "he was no longer able to guarantee the control of the ship and the command of the crew" and was concerned about the "psychic-physical" well-being of the passengers.
		Cap Anamur said the Sudanese gave the boat's captain a handwritten asylum application late on Saturday and that it was sent on to the German government.
		The Cap Anamur said it came across a rubber dinghy on June 20 containing 36 Sudanese - many reportedly fleeing a humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan - and a man from Sierra Leone, and picked up the passengers.
	www.fin24.co.za /articles/print_article.asp?articleid=2-10-1462_1556067 (509 words)

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		Cap Anamur said in a statement that their five-strong team had been providing primary health care to women and children at the Bong Mines Hospital since November.
		Cap Anamur said they had been the target of several armed robberies, during which passports, money and mobile phones were stolen.
		Cap Anamur admitted that leaving the town could have serious implications for the local community and patients in the Bong Mines hospital, since the local staff who had been left behind did not have sufficient expertise to deal with many of the cases handled by the German team.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=41220&SelectRegion=West_Africa&... (725 words)

	Excite - News
		Italy expelled the refugees after accusing Cap Anamur of a publicity stunt and arrested the ship's captain, a crew member and the head of the aid group on suspicion of aiding illegal immigration.
		Cap Anamur claimed the Africans fled Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
		The UNHCR did not spare the Cap Anamur, either, saying there were question marks over the aid group's behavior.
	news.excite.com /world/article/id/415434\|world\|07-23-2004::16:11\|reuters.html (402 words)

	Cap Anamur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cap Anamur is an organisation which is helping refugees worldwide.
		In 1979 Christel and Rupert Neudeck, together with a group of friends, formed the committee "A ship for Vietnam" and chartered for the rescue mission the freighter "Cap Anamur" named after a cape off the Turkish coast.
		This page was last modified 00:42, 1 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cap_Anamur (92 words)

	German Doctors Threaten To Withdraw From Bong Mines Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cap Anamur (German Emergency Doctors), currently running the Bong Mines Hospital has threatened to withdraw her team from the Fuamah District, Bong County.
		This means that Cap Anamur will withdraw her team in the next days to Germany.
		Giving reasons for their decision, Cap Anamur said in its release, “Cap Anamur has been risking the lives of her members working in Bong Mines Hospital for the past seven months and the continuous absence of UNMIL in the town has made our staff vulnerable to attacks.
	www.theperspective.org /inquirer/capanamur.html (267 words)

	Italy snubs 37 African immigrants
		A German aid group, Cap Anamur, said it had rescued the 37 Africans on June 20 from a small craft in the Mediterranean.
		Meanwhile, three crew members from the ship of Cap Anamur, a German relief agency, had their first full day of freedom after their release from a Sicilian jail.
		Cap Anamur spokesman Bernd Goeken told The Associated Press Bierdel was well but declined to comment on the case.
	www.showmenews.com /2004/Jul/20040718News022.asp (444 words)

	CBC News - Analysis: Don Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The history of the Cap Anamur tells a story of how attitudes to refugees and immigration have changed drastically in a generation.
		Cap Anamur was set up by German activists in 1979 to help the Vietnamese "boat people" – refugees fleeing the Communist regime that had recently beaten the United States and swallowed up the non-communist south of the country.
		The first Cap Anamur vessel rescued at least 10,000 refugees and brought them to what was then West Germany.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_murray/20040806.html (1338 words)

	July 22
		So the 300-foot blue and white Cap Anamur, which arrived off Sicily on July 1, simply waited as the United Nations and the Vatican applied pressure and told Italy it was high time it did the right thing.
		The German activists were released after five days behind bars, but Elias Bierdel, the head of the group Cap Anamur, stands accused of smuggling illegal immigrants and risks up to 12 years in prison, the loss of the ship and a fine of $18,500 for every immigrant brought into the country.
		The Cap Anamur then navigated through Maltese waters before passing the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which is often inundated with illegal immigrants.
	www.cir-onlus.org /july_23.htm (888 words)

	European governments make an example of Cap Anamur refugees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When the Cap Anamur tried to dock at Empodocle, the nearest port in Sicily, Italian navy frigates and helicopters as well as the Coast Guard were sent to force it back to sea.
		The Cap Anamur’s humanitarian mission was seized upon by the ruling elite as grist for its anti-communist propaganda campaign.
		The rest of her article tried to make the reader believe that the whole story of what happened on the Cap Anamur was an invention, and that the authorities were completely justified in denying the refugees admission and criminalising those who came to their aid.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jul2004/anam-j22.shtml (1518 words)

	Three crew arrested after Africans land - World - www.smh.com.au
		The captain of the Cap Anamur, Stefan Schmidt, was arrested with a Russian officer, Vladimir Daschkewitsch, and Elias Bierdel, who is the president of the Cap Anamur aid organisation, which gave its name to the ship.
		The Italian Ministry of the Interior suspects that the Cap Anamur organisation used the Africans to prove a point - that the needy have a right to be received in Europe.
		Cap Anamur is a humanitarian organisation that helps people fleeing war, persecution or famine by sea.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/07/13/1089694361813.html?from=storylhs (419 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Refugee ship not what it seemed
		The ship Cap Anamur is blocked by Italian Coast Guard boats a few miles outside Porto Empedocle’s Harbour, in Sicily.
		Cap Anamur official Bernd Goeken in Germany expressed dismay, saying it was against previous arrangements made between the group and Italy.
		The Cap Anamur aid group is better known outside the country as German Emergency Doctors Union.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2004/07/13/story156751.html (649 words)

	cap anamur
		Cap Anamur is a Charitable Aid Organisation which was founded by Rupert Neudeck.
		In 1979 because of the Vietnam War lots of people which came to be known as boat people, fled their home country Vietnam because they were not able to live under the Communist Regime.
		Cap Anamur is a medical aid organisation now, which informs the general public by means of newspapers, press conferences, exhibitions and other means about current crisis points.
	www2.altenforst.de /projekte/cyberf/capa.htm (307 words)

	Sea Alarm
		But here's the second fact: at the same time, the ship "Cap Anamur" with about fifty persons aboard (37 Sudanese refugees and about ten members of the crew) is blocked, just beyond the Italian territorial waters, by our Navy, that is preventing it from disembarking the refugees.
		So, the "Cap Anamur" is a symbol, a symptom, an alarm bell.
		We desire that the matter of the "Cap Anamur" (thirty seven refugees, for heaven's sake...) would wake the opposition up from its parliamentary, electoral and governmental obsessions.
	www.zmag.org /Italy/dallago-seaalarm.htm (778 words)

	Welcome at Cap Anamur
		Müller: This weekend the German Aid Ship Cap Anamur saved a refugee boat with 37 people on board which had got into distress in the Mediterranean.
		The totally overloaded rubber dinghy with engine failure was drifting on open sea between the coast of Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa.
		Elias Bierdel, head of Cap Anamur, is with us in the studio.
	www.cap-anamur.org /eng/cont/art040622.php4 (982 words)

	Welcome at Cap Anamur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The journeys of "Cap Anamur" (and her sister ships) were - against the predictions of many "experts"- a huge success: 10,375 Boat people were rescued from the sea and a further 35,000 were medically treated.
		Thus the committee "Deutsche Not Ärzte e.V." (German Emergency Doctors Union) was created and quickly a name was found: Cap Anamur.
		After 23 years the leadership of Cap Anamur has finally changed hands: A new team will continue to work according to the principles and ideals of the founders.
	www.cap-anamur.org /eng (334 words)

	German article
		The director of the relief organization Cap Anamur, Rupert Neudeck, did not hide his disappointment when returning from his last visit in North Korea at the beginning of this week.
		The four German Cap Anamur members are not allowed to visit their project hospitals without a special permit.
		Today Cap Anamur is working in two provinces in the south and the central area of Korea.
	www.chosunjournal.com /german.html (588 words)

	Statewatch News online: French NGOs press release on Cap Anamur asylum-seekers
		On July 11th, 2004, Cap Anamur, a ship belonging to a German aid agency, authorized "for humanitarian reasons" to dock in Porto Empedocle harbour (Sicily) : twenty days after having rescued the 37 passengers (36 Sudanese from Darfour and 1 Ethiopian) from a dinghy sinking in international waters between Libya and Lampedusa island.
		Italy then played an obscene game with Germany and Malta (where Cap Anamur had stopped), each country handing the responsibility to the others, while lives were in danger and Geneva Convention, Nice Carta and Italian Constitution were negated.
		These 3 EU member states, with the conniving silence of the european institutions, hardly mentioned "humanitarian urgency", while insisting on the fact that it was impossible to meet for fear of creating a "dangerous precedent which would lead to numerous abuses".
	www.statewatch.org /news/2004/jul/13cap-anamur-prel.htm (620 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Italy accepts ship, but captain arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The German aid group Cap Anamur said its ship rescued the 37 men from a broken down vessel in the Mediterranean on June 20.
		The Cap Anamur aid group is known outside the country as "German Emergency Doctors Union." Its longest running project is in Sudan, where the organization has been running a hospital since 1997.
		One of its ships had just finished dropping off medical and other supplies to Cap Anamur projects in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Angola and was on its way back to Germany when it experienced engine problems and had to stop for repairs in Malta.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/07/12/sudanese_refugees_leave_ship_in_sicily?mode=PF (739 words)

	Deutsche Welle & Cap Anamur Build 32 Schools in Afghanistan \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 16.01.2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Deutsche Welle and Cap Anamur would like to thank all of the donors who have helped make the 100 Classrooms for Afghanistan program a total success.
		In total, Cap Anamur built 32 schools in Afghanistan with money raised through the 100 Classrooms program.
		As a condition of building the schools, Cap Anamur required local rulers in these communities to agree that the schools would always be open to both boys and girls, that a co-ed recreation area would be a requirement and that teachers be paid at the schools by the local communities.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1090671,00.html (345 words)

	Hearing on Free Speech: The media and human rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cap Anamur originated with a rescue ship in the South China Sea that we used to rescue more than 12 000 boat people.
		We chartered the ship on 23 July 1979; it happened to be called the Cap Anamur, and I only found out later that Anamur is a pirate port in Turkey, so that in Turkey people sometimes think that we are a Turkish organization, which we welcome, because we find it helpful there.
		As a journalist with German radio from 1977 onwards he reported and wrote on, inter alia, the war in Afghanistan, the fate of the Kurds and Western asylum policy, particularly in his book 'Asylum: Why the boat isn't full', which was published in 1992.
	www.europarl.eu.int /hearings/speech/theimp_en.htm (1114 words)

	Expatica's German news in English: Italy expels more Cap Anamur immigrants
		ROME - All but five of the 37 African immigrants who reached Italy last week aboard the Cap Anamur German relief vessel have now been sent back to their country of origin after being denied political asylum in Europe, media reports said.
		Pisanu, citing the preliminary results of an investigation underway in Sicily, also accused Cap Anamur of using the immigrants to create "a huge publicity stunt" for their organisation, which survives on donations and specialises in rescuing boat-people.
		Cap Anamur officials claimed the immigrants had fled war-torn Sudan.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=9768 (285 words)

	SudanTribune article : German aid ship captain arrested in Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stefan Schmidt, a German national, was arrested after hours of questioning by police in Sicily, shortly after docking the Cap Anamur in the island’s Porto Empedocle.
		He faces charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration along with Elias Bierdel, head of the Cap Anamur agency, prosecutors from the nearby town of Agrigento told reporters.
		Cap Anamur is an NGO dedicated to helping refugees in distress at sea.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=3943 (392 words)

	"Cap Anamur" under the scrutiny of EU Court of Human Rights
		EU/Malta (di-ve news) July 23, 2004 - 1640CET -- The "Cap Anamur" case is under the scrutiny of the European Court of Human Rights as it has requested Italy to provide it with information about its decision.
		Meanwhile 27 of the 37 asylum seekers who were on board the "Cap Anamur" aid ship were flown to Ghana on Friday morning.
		The Africans on board "Cap Anamur" were stranded at sea for days as Italy did not allow them to enter its ports.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=144903 (228 words)

	DAWN News from Italy, Portugal, Poland and USA (2004 #33)
		Because he did not falsely attempt to obtain asylum, as did the other 36 refugees which the ship 'Cap Anamur' picked up in the Mediterranean, he has been admitted to an open refugee centre in Racalmuto, Sicily, with "clean, spacious rooms and no restrictions on leaving the centre", according to the German news programme 'Tagesschau'.
		He was the only refugee on board the Cap Anamur who did not lie about his origin, stating from the very beginning that he came from Nigeria, not from the civil-war-torn Sudan, despite knowing that telling the truth would seriously reduce the chances of being granted asylum in Italy.
		Benjamin confirmed that their refugee boat was in grave danger of sinking when the Cap Anamur rescued them, and that Bierdel had repeatedly attempted to identify the refugees' origin.
	www.jesus.org.uk /dawn/2004/dawn33.html (764 words)

	AM - African asylum seekers land in Italy
		In a story reminiscent of the arrival of the Tampa and the Howard Government's refusal to allow 463 asylum seekers onto Australian soil three years ago, these 37 Sudanese boat people were rescued three weeks ago from a small dinghy in the Mediterranean.
		FRAN KELLY: For three weeks, the Cap Anamur sailed the Mediterranean with its human cargo, looking for a suitable port to let them off.
		The Chairman of Cap Anamur, Elias Bierdel, says by this time, the Sudanese passengers were getting desperate.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/07/13/cache/269992.html (624 words)

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