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Cyprus refugees hope courts end 17-year-wait on UK base
The 75 asylum-seekers set sail from Lebanon in 1998 [AFP]
When Taj Bashir saw land after days adrift aboard a
ramshackle fishing trawler, he thought his treacherous journey from
persecution in Sudan to sanctuary in Europe was finally over.
But 17 years later, he and dozens of fellow passengers remain stranded on a British military base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, unwitting participants in an international dispute that has lasted nearly half his life.
"We get used to waiting," says Bashir, 43, outside the corrugated steel bungalow that serves as his family home in Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area, on Cyprus's southern shore.
"We don't have most of our civil rights because we are in a military base. Most of the families here have been affected physically and psychologically," he says.
Bashir and 74 other asylum seekers - mainly Syrian and Iraqi Kurds - set sail from Lebanon in 1998 but were marooned off another British base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, from where Britain is now launching air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
They were moved along the coast to Dhekelia, where around half were given refugee status on the base, and told their accommodation - 1960s prefabricated huts perched on a scrub-covered hill overlooking a firing range - was only temporary.
But their stay has been anything but.
But 17 years later, he and dozens of fellow passengers remain stranded on a British military base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, unwitting participants in an international dispute that has lasted nearly half his life.
"We get used to waiting," says Bashir, 43, outside the corrugated steel bungalow that serves as his family home in Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area, on Cyprus's southern shore.
"We don't have most of our civil rights because we are in a military base. Most of the families here have been affected physically and psychologically," he says.
Bashir and 74 other asylum seekers - mainly Syrian and Iraqi Kurds - set sail from Lebanon in 1998 but were marooned off another British base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, from where Britain is now launching air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
They were moved along the coast to Dhekelia, where around half were given refugee status on the base, and told their accommodation - 1960s prefabricated huts perched on a scrub-covered hill overlooking a firing range - was only temporary.
But their stay has been anything but.
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We are like the leftovers that you throw to the dogs. - Mustafa Shirmus, a stateless Syrian Kurd. |
"We are like the leftovers that you throw to the dogs," says Mustafa Shirmus, 41, a stateless Syrian Kurd who was on the same boat as Bashir.
"I wish the people of the UK knew what was happening here."
Although Dhekelia is officially British sovereign territory, the refugees have been refused permission to resettle in Britain.
While they could in theory claim asylum in Cyprus, many on the base say they have little prospect of finding work or permanent residency on the island.
The dispute has rumbled on for so long that many of the refugees have married and had children, all within the boundaries of the seven-square-kilometre (three-square-mile) outpost, although they are able to go outside.
Now, after 17 years in limbo, six of the families are seeking a judicial review challenging Britain's position.
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http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/politics/2015/12/19/cyprus-refugees-hope-courts-end-17-year-wait-on-uk-base
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