With war raging in Ukraine since February 2022, the latest decision by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government to shut all the border crossings except for one is an example of how both countries are playing hardball with asylum seekers and the Finland’s largest national group, the Russians. Katja Marova is a human rights activist and…
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Finnish government: Storms in a teacup and fearmongering from youth gangs to asylum seekers at the Finnish-Russian border
As a non-white Finn, it’s amazing how the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, with the support of the National Coalition Party (NCP),* work with tiny numbers and speak in the conditional. In Sweden, there are tens of thousands of people in gangs while in Finland their number total 150-200. The same strategy goes for the closing of the…
Closing the Finnish-Russian border is a stunt to boost to the government’s sagging popularity
How can you trust a party and government that builds its support on conspiracy theories about asylum seekers? You can if you are gullible. Due to over 300 asylum seekers who came from countries with terrible human rights issues due to wars like Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, the Finnish government has decided to shut four…
The Finnish government’s xenophobic knee-jerk response: The asylum seekers are coming! Shut the border”
Yle: “Today [Wednesday] about 70 asylum seekers asked for asylum [at the Russian border].” A-studio: “One hundred thousand people attempt to cross the Mediterranean annually [to enter Europe].” I’ve been quiet, watching with manifest unease, the actions of the government spearheaded by the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party about the trickle of asylum seekers arriving at…
If we replaced the word “Muslim” or other vulnerable minorities with white Finn, it would reveal the toxicity of Jussi Halla-aho’s world
If there is a reminder on how bad Finland’s racism problem has got, take a look at the rise of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party since the 2011 parliamentary election and specifically its main motor, Jussi Halla-aho. Having him treated as “a normal” politician by the media and other politicians makes him look like a wretched…
Migrant Tales Literary: Juan and the mysterious stone
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are oppressing and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X Juan is a seven-year-old boy who enjoys playing alone rather than with friends. He was known for his wild imagination. From a short distance he was playing in the…
Finland’s long-overdue far-right terrorism conviction
THE STORY WAS UPDATED A Päjät-Häme district court sentenced 31 October for the first time in Finland members of the far right with the intent of committing a terrorist act. Even if the case is considered the first in Finnish criminal history, it is long overdue and a stark reckoning that white Finns can commit…
The abyss of immorality: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Gaza: Necessary evil or morally indefensible
The quantity of explosives that have been dropped on Gaza has exceeded 12.000 tons, equivalent to the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Bear in mind that Gaza (45km²) is one-third the size of Nagasaki. More than 2.2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, an area about 40km long and 10km wide at its…
Yahya Rouissi: Words are weapons and the ones used by the media are mass destruction
“Adagio per sortem, annales se iterum replicabant.” Before ascension, from under the rubbles, Palestinian children with a bitter smile: “In articulo mortis. Morituri te salutant (At the moment of death. Those who are about to die salute you).” From the high seat of human rights and standards Europe replies: “Mors ultima ratio (Death is the…
Reports show a rise of racism in Finland and Europe but politicians continue to look the other way
It isn’t surprising why the government of Petter Orpo has paid so little attention to two reports that continue to shine a dark light on Finland: The 2022 suspected hate crime report by the Police University College of Finland, and Being Black in the EU by the Europen Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Migrant…