Indian human smugglers flourish in EU

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Stockholm - Indians top the list of people smuggled into Sweden, and eventually the European Union, says a top Swedish official. Most of these Indians come into Sweden claiming asylum, complaining that they were victims of New Delhi’s policy of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Jammu and Kashmir or victims of religious persecution.

The females among them may be ending up in Europe’s flesh trade market.

‘India tops the list of humans smuggled into Sweden, and eventually the EU, at present’, Helene Lekstrom, an official of the Swedish Migrations Board (SMB), based at the Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, told IANS.

‘Over a half of the nearly hundred ‘asylum-seekers’ brought into Sweden this year have disappeared without trace, from the Migrations Board’s transit camps,’ Inspector Patrik Pettersson, chief of the border police at Arland, told IANS.

‘We are convinced this constitutes part of a huge smuggling of Indians into the European Union. We are working closely with the Europol and Interpol in this matter,’ he added.

According to police and SMB sources, 10 men, most of them Indians, were arrested at the Skavsta airport, about 100 km from Stockholm, as they sought to flee to Spain.

‘They are being held, suspected for organized human smuggling and use of forged as well as false documents,’ says Pettersson.

Although the police will not disclose identities as per Swedish policy, the Swedish Eko Radio has disclosed that two of the 10, an Indian and a Frenchman, were the ringleaders of the Indo-European human smuggling network.

An SMB source said that so far this year 69 Indians, most of them in their early 20s, have sought political asylum in Sweden.

Some cited ‘atrocious Indian ethnic cleansing and genocide in Kashmir’ while others said they were victims of ‘the countrywide persecution of religious minorities’. All these entered Sweden through Arlanda.

However, after no more than two weeks, most of these did a clean bunk from their transit refugee housing while their applications were being processed, and remain untraceable.

‘Since they show no desire to have their petitions for asylum duly processed, we are constrained to assume that the reasons they cite are not serious and their intentions are far different,’ says SMB’s Helene Lekstrom.

‘We have strong suspicions that most of these youths, especially the girls, are destined for EU’s black jobs and slave markets,’ the SMB source said. ‘Perhaps the red light districts of Germany and Holland.’

However, there is one clear certainty: ‘There is a very powerful and well organized ring behind this trade in humans. Several groups that have been netted in recent years all show uniform patterns.’

Added Inspector Pettersson: ‘It is plainly clear that these people are being horrendously duped and exploited. Most of them are semi literate or not at all and don’t even know which country they presently find themselves in.’

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Large spending in the social sector pays off in Finland

Garimella Subramaniam, The Hindu, 16 March 2006

No corruption in public institutions, says Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen

CHENNAI: Finland is the global leader in competitiveness for the fourth time in the past five years, ahead of the United States and other industrial giants of Europe, according to the World Economic Forum

Ranking. It invests heavily in basic education and social welfare, says Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.

In an interview to The Hindu here, he said Finland's continued success in achieving a combination of fiscal prudence, high quality public institutions and technological innovation owed it to the large spending in the social sector.

"In addition to well-functioning public institutions which are marked by the absence of corruption, we invest substantially in the basic education of our people. The expenditure on education and social welfare also means that people have to be paid high salaries," Mr. Vanhanen said.

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Labour migration

Explaining his Government's recent announcement that it would allow people from eight of the 10 new member-states of the European Union to work in Finland, Mr. Vanhanen said the move to open the doors after two years of EU expansion was the decision of Parliament as part of a compromise with trade unions. "We are now confident that we won't face serious problems on account of immigrant labour."

Denying that it was a recent European Commission report highlighting the benefits of labour inflow from the East that prompted the decision, he said it was based on an independent assessment by the country's trade unions and employers' organisations. It was true that Britain, Ireland and Sweden opened their doors to labour from the new member-states right from the beginning of the 2004 EU enlargement. But the member-countries were free to review the transition period (leading to full freedom of labour movement), which was allowed for a maximum of seven years.

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Asked whether the success of European integration would determine the extent to which Finland could resist pressures to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Mr. Vanhanen noted that his country, a traditionally non-aligned state, had to take independent responsibility for its own security. "There is a large unanimity both within and outside Parliament against NATO membership. There was only one candidate (who secured just one per cent of the vote in the recent presidential election) who advocated membership of NATO. Support for NATO membership was only one-fifth even in the opinion polls."

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