A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #338 - Spotlight, Against the Racist State: No to Operation Wuambushu! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

While we have been in the midst of a social movement against the pension reform 
for more than three months, the state offensives against exiles continue and 
intensify. The Libertarian Communist Union is a signatory of the platform "No to 
Operation Wuambushu!» the text of which we transcribe here. ---- From April 22, 
the date of the end of Ramadan, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Gérald 
Darmanin and the French government are planning a violent operation against 
residents of Mayotte from other islands of the Comoros . Named "Wuambushu", it 
was discreetly validated by Emmanuel Macron in the defense council in the name of 
the fight against "delinquency" and "informal housing". On the program: 400 daily 
evictions for a total of 24,000 evictions over two months, destruction of 10% of 
informal settlements on the island per day: the State is preparing to throw into 
the streets and evict thousands of people and warns teachers that some of their 
students will "disappear". For the occasion, 500 additional police officers are 
expected as reinforcements, including police officers from the CRS8 or ERIS to 
support the RAID and the GIGN already on site.

In a cynical way, the State is also counting on the almost total and systematic 
impossibility of seizing a judge in order to be able to act in defiance of any 
legal framework. If "Wuambushu" is launched, it is therefore for an unleashing of 
violence that we must prepare, within the framework of a military-police 
operation which is part of the continuity of the authoritarian hardening of the 
government and its violent repression. strangers. The current offensive is 
moreover justified by a far-right discourse, making Comorians and foreigners the 
culprits of the social situation on the island and of all the evils that affect 
its inhabitants. This masks the reality of a territory where 77% of the 
inhabitants of the island live below the poverty line and where the unemployment 
rate reaches 34%, but above all the origin of this misery.

France is however historically responsible for a schizophrenic situation since it 
tore Mayotte from the Comoros archipelago in the mid-1970s to maintain positions 
in the Indian Ocean. Since 1976, twenty resolutions of the United Nations General 
Assembly have affirmed the sovereignty of the Comoros over the island of Mayotte, 
which officially remained under French domination. The newly amputated 
independent Comorian state found itself struggling with a caricatural neocolonial 
policy, which left this country bloodless. While the permanent policy of 
community division, consubstantial with colonialism, increasingly anchored 
Mahoran society to France, making the island an overseas territory and then a 
department.

Colonial management
The State has continuously tightened its migration policy and the reception 
conditions for foreigners and in particular for Comorians from other islands: 
introduction of the "Balladur visa" by Charles Pasqua in 1995, reduction of 
asylum application deadlines to seven days, hardening of the law of the land... 
Exceptional laws which have given rise to a hunt for undocumented migrants, who 
come and go on makeshift boats, taking disproportionate risks and creating a 
veritable marine cemetery between Mayotte and the neighboring island of Anjouan. 
In 2016, La Cimade estimated the human toll of this policy at more than 12,000 
dead at sea, this data not being updated due to a deliberate policy of hiding the 
dead.

We strongly denounce "Wuambushu". This demonstration of security force will only 
worsen an already dramatic situation and provide the State with a laboratory for 
its migration policy which will be further tightened with the next immigration 
law. The fight against the operation is inseparable from the fight to roll back 
the authoritarian offensive in progress. It is therefore essential that all the 
organizations of the social movement take it up and also mobilize on April 29, 
the next date of demonstration against the government's future immigration bill.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Contre-l-Etat-raciste-Non-a-l-operation-Wuambushu
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