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...ada to Israel you can put me under the both stress and heating
(Israel is one of the most hot countries in the world), and you'll make
me blind. Please, don't do it to me!
3. Living 4 years in Montreal I've been used to local life. I have
friends, relatives; I speak English more or less, and understand some French
words, too. I have no close friends or relatives in Israel, I don't
speak Hebrew, and I don't know Jewish religious rules. Regarding my age,
my eyes disease (glaucoma), my general situation, please, do not send
me back there!
4. The members of IRB could say just anything about our claim. How
could they not believe our honest and sincere claim, hundreds of
documents we presented, our innocence, I don't know and don't dare to
know. I just know that I still have a non-imaginable fear to go back
there. My blood is freezing in my veins, when I think that I might be
removed back there.
5. Please, try to understand that Israel is not my native country, I am
a stranger there, I don't belong to Middle East culture and traditions.
6. Please, have a merci for me as if I was your mother, sister, or
daughter.
Sincerely Yours,
Lisa Gunin
THE ENFORCEMENT OF FAMILY GUNIN's PERSECUTION
by IMMIGRATION CANADA
LIST OF EVENTS
(short description)
October, 1998 - September, 1999
1) 08.10.1998. - The Second Stage Federal Court's Decision: to reject
family Gunin's demand
to revise their refugee case. Reasons: one reason - "cases with
Immigration Tribunal's remark
"no minimum ground" are automatically rejected".
2) During the Federal Court's hearing the Immigration Canada's lawyer,
Mrs. Murphy, based
her arguments on Lev GUNIN's "dangerous personality", insisting that he
is an aggressive,
dangerous and anti-government trouble-maker, and because of that must
be expelled from
Canada.
3) When the Federal Court's decision was received Lev and Alla Gunins
were deeply
depressed and were close to a suicide. On the 3-rd or 4-th day after
receiving the Federal
Court's decision Lev was so close to a suicide that only physical
efforts could calm him down.
To relax and avoid a suicide attempt Lev started to run - and
completely damaged his already
damaged by batteries and other incidents ligaments on his both legs.
4) November, 1998. - Family Gunin submitted an appeal for Humanitarian
and
Compassionate grounds to Immigration Canada. The appeal for the Risk of
Return, made by Gunins in 1997, was never answered.
5) Immediately after submission of that appeal Gunins started to have
difficulties in
using their telephone line. The wider description of what is going on
with their telephone
line may be found on the next page
6) Three times BELL's technicians came to Gunins apartment and checked
BELL's
installation in their apartment, but found nothing.
7) Several times Lev GUNIN's computer (after using Internet or sending
a fax Lev
disconnects it immediately, so that when Gunins are using the telephone
computer is
never connected), was targeted by computer viruses. The viruses
probably came not
through Internet but through the telephone line itself. (See also next
page)
8) Unknown voiced started to give Lev Gunin and his family advises to
live Canada
"voluntarily", otherwise it will be "more worse" to them. The most
persistent strangers
called from outside Montreal, demanding a long distance collect call.
They called
several times a week during approximately 3 months, starting from
March, 1999. When
one day Ina Gunin, Lev's older daughter, authorized the collect call,
they began to
mock over her. They spoke French. When Lev took over they told him that
he received
an unofficial removal order and was advised to leave Canada.
9) Because of psychological pressure and tragical immigration situation
Lev started to
injure himself. He received 6 injuries, 4 times visited emergency - and
some of the
injuries never healed. Both Lev and Alla Gunin started to suffer from
extreme declining
of their health's state.
10) Gunins' children are suffering from neurothyses because they are
also suppressed by
the situation.
11) In March, 1999, Lev Gunin's work (night auditor) was terminated
because it was
a temporary job. He had to take unemployment. In the same time he had a
work accident,
and was seriously injured. Because of the bandage and the gravity of
the injury in general
he could not go to another work. In the beginning of July, when the
bandage and the
protective plate were removed, he could not search for a physical work.
In the same time
it is practically impossible to apply for a better job having no status
in Canada.
12) Because of his immigration situation Lev's unemployment benefits
were often
suspended, and he had difficulties to pay for a renewval of his
Employment
Authorization. And without it he could not receive the benefits...
13) Because of all these reasons but inicially because of Immigration
Canada's
persecutions family Gunin started to face such extreme financial
difficulties as
never before. They were pushed much below the poverty line.
14) Searching for work Lev Gunin applied to hundreeds potencial
employers. No
one called him back. He found out what is going on when one of the
potencial
employers told him that she was advised to call Immigration Canada or
called
herself (it is not completely clear) - and received a "recommendation"
not to
employ Lev Gunin.
15) In August, 1999, Lev began to modernize and classify his web files
with full
description of Gunins immigration case. He did it because almost one
year
passed since Gunins applied for Humanitarian grounds, and an eventual
Immigration's
decision might arrive soon. In case of a negative decision Lev was
planning to appeal
to a number of organizations. To eliminate the expenses on mails he
decided to use
his web site as a primary source. Since then his web site was
subbotaged. He is not
able to upload new versions of his pages to his Internet server. But
something more
serious and dangerous occured: the server started to send old versions
or even blank
pages with existing files' names to Lev's computer, erasing his renewed
files and
eliminating his work! In responce to Lev Gunin's official complaint his
server's
representetive claimed server's innocence and told that allien hackers
could do that.
An anonimous e-mail advised Lev not to place information about his
immigration
case on his web site - otherwise his web site will be closed, and his
account - terminated.
16) In the end of August - beginning of September Lev Gunin finished
IGS course
for security/investigation agents - and succesfully passed the exam.
But he was refused
the security agent licence because of his status. Quin Elisabeth
Hotel's placement
department's clerk responded to Lev's appeal for work that they do not
want to
employ people with no status in Canada.
17) 08.09.1999 Gunins received a negative responce to their application
for Ina Gunin's Student Authorization. In his/her statement
Vergeville's Case
Processing Center's agent AJL/F (now Immigration Canada stopped even
reveal real names of its agents: as KGB in ex-USSR or SS in fascist
Germany
did) mentions employment authorization instead of student
authorization. He
gives 2 "reasons":
"Ina Gunin was refused and employment [when we applied for student
authorization!] authorization because a removal order, which might be
executted, was issued for you. This is why you are not eligible to
apply for
employment authorization from within Canada".
Refusing a child a student authorization Immigration Canada violated
International treaties, Canada's laws and human rights granted by all
existing
laws and regulation. In Gunins' case only a conditional removal order
is acting;
a real removal order was never issued against them. In the same day,
08.09.1999,
Gunins called Immigration Canada - and verified through both
aitomatical
information tool and an agent (started to speak to an agent at 12.24
p.m.) that
there are no decisions in Gunins appeals for the Risk of Return and
Humanitarian
and Compassionate grounds, and no removal order issued before
08.09.1999.
In the same time it is possible that Immigration Canada means anonymous
advises
to Gunins by unindentified callers to quit Canada, otherwise their life
will be made
unbearable and misarable. Same threats expressed during IRB refugee
hearings
in Gunins case gudge Mr. Boisrond and immigration officer Mrs. Malka.
"
GRIGORY SVIRSKY
Grigory Svirsky is a famous writer, author of the movie's "Hostages"
scenario.
Professor, member of Canada's and Russia's Writers' Unions
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Jean Chretien
About Gunins' immigration case
Translation from Russian original
To the Prime Minister uf Canada
THE OPEN LETTER
Grigory SVIRRKY,
Professor ot literature, writer.
In Canada since 1973.
"THE BERLIN WALL IN CANADA"...
So was called a letter-affidavit, containing text of my statement for a
conference in Toronto. The
conference was organized on October 22, 1997 by the All-American
Institute for Human Rights
Defense (Washington, D. C.) This statement criticized the Management of
Immigration Canada,
which is obviously not in accord with any common sense and humor: most
undesirable immigrants
in its official document were announced... writers.
A writer is a creature, certainly, horrible. But a composer appears
simply a horror, an invasion of
aliens.
The name of this composer and musician is Lev Uunin. He's 42 years old,
he is a polyglot, and is
fluent in English, Prench, German, Polish, Byelorussian, and Yiddish.
His wife Alla (39) has a
technical education. The children - Ina and Marta - 11 and 12 years
old, like their father - are gifted
in music. Ina plays piano and flute, Marta is a young ballerina, once
chosen by the Natiunal ballet of
Canada for further studies, but... status, status! Of course, she
participates in many performances
even without the status, and her list of performances is already
longer, than that of some adult
ballerinas.
This family does not require any help from the stale. The composer is
skilled in many musical
specialties. He tutored children; has performed in prestigious clubs,
concert halls, and restaurants!.
Such a self-sufficient family, one should think, would be welcomed in
any country... Naturally,
except the most racist, xenophobic-anti-Semite.
And now the family is on the verge of catastrophe: The Immigration
Management in Montreal has
refused to give them the right to settle... in free Canada. Deportation
threatens them.
Why suddenly?!
Oh, this family, Mister Prime Minister, has an awful past.
1. First of all, they ran away from Israel. The Israeli consulate
persecutes escapees by all means as
fugitive slaves. Then, not only the Israeli consulate, but even the
immigration authorities of Canada
assume that Israel is a free country, and therefore consider escape
from freedom as impossible...
However, it is really hard to understand why people run away from this
"freedom". By number of
refugees, Israel, according to official statistics, is on the third -
fourth place (depending on the
years), annually: directly after the brutal murder regimes of Iran and
Somali.
The nature of human mentality is so, that people willingly believe
myths. Myths are much more
smoother than the truth. Why listen to the confused words of
unfortunate refugees that Israeli
nationalists have blocked all venues for Russian Jews except to Israel
since the first of October,
1989. What has happened (for many years) is a real deportation of
half-million free people to a
small East country.
That, in itself, was a criminal abuse of authority, humiliation over
the principles of basic human
rights. But today the consequences of that crime are much more painful:
nobody tried to foresee
the results of this irresponsible operation, which has sharpen up to
limits the socio-economic and
political situation in the country. One can observe the extreme
intolerance of aboriginal Israelis
(such as outcomers from the countries of Muslim fundamentalism:
Morocco, Algeria. Iraq and etc.)
for new arrivants. Upon their arrival in Israel, immigrants from Africa
were deprived of privileges. As
a rule, they were taken to Negev desert and left there; and only
fragmentary army tents were
thrown to them. The care of the state for tile new arrivants from
Africa ended with this.
Naturally, former Africans were irritated by rumors that "Russians" are
given "everything"...
Suppressed hatred towards the authorities has found a convenient
outlet: non-sanctioned
murders of the immigrants from Russia, non-provoked battering of the
"Russian" children in
schools, a wave of rapes of new "Russian" immigrants. The last case
reported by the world press
(a week ago): a policeman (a Moroccan origin) extremely irritated by an
Israeli soldier, who loudly
spoke with his friends in Russian in a restaurant, stabbed the soldier
with a knife and killed him.
(Moscow newspaper "Koмepcaнт Daily." ("Commersant Daily") of November
13, this year, and
tens of other editions wrote about it).
In the last years the attitude of the Israeli aborigines to new
arrivants has deteriorated alarmingly.
The Israeli and American press in Russian has now informed the readers
about a pogrom in
Jerusalem's religious quarter " Mea Shearim". Angry crowds have beaten
"Russians", burned their
furniture, broken glasses in their motor vehicles. Only the
intervention of the Israeli army stopped
murders... One rabbi, associate of the mayor of Jerusalem, has called
his co-religionists for this
pogrom.
Why then has the immigration board heard, with a grimace of mistrust,
the testimony, that the
wife of composer Gunin, ethnically Russian (she's from a mixed family),
was persecuted, called "
Russian whore ", prostitute. According to supplied documents she was
cleaning the subsidiary
premises of a shop, where she worked as a cashier. Influenced by spasm
of brutaliен aborigines
took the mop from her hands and hit her on the head with it, then they
severely beat her up
half-to-death. She arrived home with injuries and bruisies.
And the small Gunins' daughters, who in kindergarten were preparing for
holiday Sukkot's
celebration, learning verses and songs with burning eyes, were
separated from all others and
locked in a dark closet with "You are not Jews, this holiday is not for
you." as only explanation.
As soon as the composer published articles against narrow-minded
small-town nationalism and
racism, in defense of human rights, this intellectual man was beaten by
everyone: by "kablans" -
Israeli sub-contractors, who employed that "Russian" only for the
heaviest work, then by police,
whose brutality nowadays everyone speaks about (even the members of
Israeli Knesset). Gunin
even tried to find "truth" (protection) in a police station. But
uselessly since the composer, after
writing one of his articles was already once "invited" for "discussion"
by police. After that discussion
his lips were swelled, and the doctor diagnosed a brain concussion...
Israel is a free country. It is possible (theoretically) to leave her.
You must only bring two dozen
permits (visas for exit): from the army, from Immigration bank "Ydud",
from building bank and other
organizations, which can give out these papers, or can not to give out;
at last, from police, which
does not give any documents to plaintiffs, whatever you do...
One day Ana ran to a few embassies, with the vain hope to take her
husband and small girls out
from Israel immediately.
But only the support of Amnesty International to Gunins made their
departure from Israel
possible...
And here they are in blessed Canada.
2. And here something even more awful was found out, - the composer and
musician Lev GUNIN
not only "escaped" with his family from a very free country, he
furthermore has an independent and
obstinate personality. And even here he has not changed...
He was exasperated and demoralized by how unlawfully the trial of
Gunins' case in the refugee
court was managed. I have listened to all cassettes with records of
refugee hearings. Each of
them lasted from four to five hours.
During that huge amount of time Canadian judges spoke out only three -
four phrases, transferring
the whole initiative to an immigration offficer whose name is Judith
Malka. With passion and anger
Malka (her Jewish family name means "queen") repeated all "proofs" of
Israeli government about
"fugitives and traitors" (Exactly by that name former Prime Minister of
Israel Mr. Shamir, ardent
Zionist called all Jews, who did not desire to live in Israel).
But the composer Gunin is not a Zionist, though he has nothing against
Zionism.
He merely wants that his wife not be called "Russian prostitute", and
not be beaten up.
He does not understand in general, why an immigration officer whose
name is Judith Malka, cries
hysterically: how could this Gunin call himself and his family, which
were not allowed to get out of
Israel, "Russian slaves"?!. Slaves driven to the Middle East.
Certainly, it was absolutely necessary for a tired out person to quit
Israel immediately. But not
alone! It was necessary to grasp from humanitarian reasons the prime
minister Netanyahu, whom
the iron Madeline from USA State Department puns to one side, the
opponents of the peace
agreements Sharon with Shamir - in an opposite, and the right
psychopaths threaten to shoot him
immediately as lzhak Rabin, if he will listen to the Americans. That's
who is a true "prisoner of Zion"!
He's only not beaten by police yet as Lev Gunin was.
Oh, the exhausted, tormented composer was not up to these thoughts in
the court. He
multiplied, and multiplied the facts of inter-ethnical hostility and
the brutality of Israeli police, what is
today not only denounced by the Israeli press publications, but even
discussed by the deputies of
Knesset...
Listening to the tapes, I expected that Lev Gunin would soon lead
Immigration's Malka to a heart
attack. Finally, as the matter of fact, she really broke up, and,
almost loosing her conscience, has
cried out, that Gunin has submitted the request for the status of the
refugee just for having an
opportunity to discredit and slander the state of Israel!
Naturally, after that cry Gunin and his family were not recognized as
refugees.
It was told about the reasons of that refusal directly, in the official
document.
I "... There are not enough proofs that "Russian" origins, mixed
marriages are
persecuted because of nationality, religion, [...] or because they
express antifascist views".
2 ''... Because the state of Israel has brought "Russians" on her own
expense, they in general have
no rights to ask for the status of the refugees in Canada...."
And etc...
In Montreal, in the Rene Levesque Street, 200, where there the Council
on refugee cases
(Immigration and Refugee Board), is situated, there is the archive for
documents that officially
confirm inter-ethnic hostility in Israel, attacks on children from CIS
countries, and systematic rapes
of the women from Russia.
Also are carefully kept UN documents, which testify about the same. The
same has been
published nowadays by various newspapers of the World.
But why the judges had to look to the truth into eyes? Eyes will ache!
The Jewish Congress of
Canada does not want to hear that in their beloved Israel somebody was
deadly beaten,
somebody was pogromed and persecuted... From ages the Erets Israel for
them - their "pink
dream", their "birthday of heart". How could it happen that inside the
"pink dream" anybody is
beaten? But if even really beaten, probably, he must be beaten!..
Thousands of Russian, Byelorussian and Ukrainian Jews, running from
Israel, are rejected, with
an active assistance of the Jewish Congress, from Canada, thousands of
families are broken,
children become orphans, many are lost. But the idea that the members
of the Jewish Congress of
Canada are accessories to a historical crime against the Jews of CIS, -
this idea has not yet struck
them...
Dear PRIME MINISTER, Mister Jean CHRETIEN!
I wrote five documentary novels and stories about Israel, including the
trilogy "Branch of
Palestine", translated in all European languages. In my life I saw
enough of such noisy Judith
Malkas, hired or voluntary Israeli super-patriots, so enough that it
would be enough for ten lives.
I am convinced, that you have judges with the sense of humor and
understanding, who would not
allow to transform the Canadian court into a battlefield for intolerant
towards dissidents and broken
apart Israeli society.
But now the speech goes not only about re-consideration of this obvious
case, but simply about
the rescue of the Gunin family. I talked to these people, saw their
eyes.
Lev Gunin and his wife Alla are exhausted, nervous people, they are on
the verge of suicide. Four
years they are carefully pushed towards this edge. The persecution of
intelligentsia does not
cease...
Young talented professionals are extremely important to Canada. Please,
give Lev Gunin, a
talented composer and musician, an opportunity to work quietly - in
glory to his family and this
remarkable country - Canada
Grigory SVIRSKY
12/26/1998
TORONTO
From Family Gunin, Montreal, November, 1998
Dear Friends!
Please, try to treat this letter as an unusual appeal, not just a
desperate cry for help and justice.
In October 1998, the Federal Court of Canada issued a second decision
in family GUNIN's appeal. (The 1-st one was positive). That tragic
decision resumed our refugee claim, which took 4 years of our lives.
Let us make a brief description of events, which took place before that
sad date.
The head of the family, Lev GUNIN, as all members of the family, was
born in Bobruisk, Belarus, ex-USSR. Senseless, ridiculous
coincidences in 1971-72 turned him, a secondary school student, young
composer, and advance piano player, into a person, persecuted by
Soviet authorities. They tried to prevent him from entering collegial -
university studies; however, his persistence and a lucky miracle broke
that wishes circle, and he received first collegial, and then
university degrees in music. In spite of that, L. GUNIN could not build a
successful composer's carrier because of persecutions. In the same
time, he played a specific role in ex-USSR, Belarus, and other
countries' cultural life. He's the author of novels, stories, poetry,
contemporary and electronic music, works in history, essays, musicology,
music history, philosophy, etc. His articles were published in a number
of newspapers all over the world.
In 1979-1986, Lev became an object of wide humiliations. He was beaten
by somebody, who has links with militia (police) and KGB. The
authorities stood up in defense of the attackers. They persecuted L.
GUNIN even more for bringing the attacker to trial. In another incident
he and his brother - they were hunted by two well-coordinated groups:
mobsters, and a gang of youngsters. "Hunters" were also leaded by
militia (police). Later brothers GUNIN were interrogated by police /KGB
men. Lev's brother Vitaly became a victim of secret medical
manipulations.
L. Gunin has multiple links with the cultural elite, famous
personalities and dissidents in Moscow, St. - Peterburg (Leningrad),
Vilnius,
Warsaw, and Belarus. He also has connections with the Western
journalists in Moscow, and with representatives of the governments of the
Western countries.
1980-s. Because of persecutions L. GUNIN's decided to participate in
the dissident movement. There are the main directions of his
dissident activities:
1. Participation in Human Rights movement and links with the most
famous human rights activists.
2. Membership in underground literacy circles.
3. Defense of the Old City of Bobruisk from revelation and demolition.
4. Journalism and editorial functions for underground magazines.
5. Cooperation with forbidden (or unwelcomed) in ex-USSR NTS (People's
Labor Union) and the National Front of Belarus.
6. Participation in the Jewish national movement.
7. Creation of ideologically independent and stylistically
controversial music, prose, poetry, philosophy, and historical, political,
and other
works.
1985-1989. A conflict erupted between leading by L. GUNIN group - and
the powerful institution of Israeli emissaries to USSR, and
controlled by them Jewish political Mafia. (Their goals - devastation
of the local Jewish cultural life, confiscation of huge aid from the
Western Jewish communities, and concentration of the propaganda of
immigration to Israel - L. Gunin was fighting). He also confronted
three important personalities - Kebi
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