{"id":879,"date":"2006-08-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2006-08-21T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T08:12:55","slug":"the-war-in-their-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"the war in their eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been busy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kleinezeitung.at\/nachrichten\/chronik\/188756\/index.do\">writing about a fight that evolved between local people and Chechen refugees<\/a> in my hometown. It all ended in a huge fist-fight on a playground which took ten policemen to be ended. and now of course public opinion is likely to start swinging into the wrong direction. What people don&#8217;t see is the situation refugees are in. While their cases are cleared for permanent residence (which happens in 95 percent of the cases) weeks, months and sometimes even years pass. &#8220;we&#8217;ve had people wait for six years to get a decision from the government&#8221;, psychologist maria lind of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aspis.at\/\">ASPIS<\/a> a non-profit organization that offers free therapy to victims of violence, yesterday told me in an interview. while waiting refugees are basically being locked away: they can not leave their homes for longer than three days, are not allowed to take a job &#8211; &#8220;basically their whole day is composed of waiting for the next meal&#8221;, lind continued. aggressions builds up: &#8220;some of them barely survived, the war is still in their eyes and then they come here and are told to wait &#8211; for how long nobody knows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>i believe.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]austria, carinthia, klagenfurt, chechen, refugees, conflict, aspis, kleine zeitung[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been busy writing about a fight that evolved between local people and Chechen refugees in my hometown. It all ended in a huge fist-fight on a playground which took ten policemen to be ended. and now of course public opinion is likely to start swinging into the wrong direction. What people don&#8217;t see is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}