A TRUE STORY…HOW HUMANITY WINS OVER NATIONALITY.

A TRUE STORY…HOW HUMANITY WINS OVER NATIONALITY.

          PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN

                “PARENTS, HAVING BELGIAN BORN CHILDREN, CANNOT BE DEPORTED.BECAUSE, IF THEY ARE EXPELLED, THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO LEAVE WITH THEM AND IT WILL BE TANTAMOUNT TO VIOLATION OF CHILDREN'S BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.THESE COMMENTS WERE OFFERED BY EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE LAST YEAR IN RESPONSE TO A QUERY OF BRUSSEL LABOUR COURT.”                              THIS VERDICT ISSUED DUE TO A CONTENTION OVER A ASYLUM CASE OF A COLOMBIAN CITIZEN ROULZ  ZAMBARANO WHO CAME TO BELGIUM WITH HIS WIFE AND A CHILD IN 1999 AS A RESULT OF COLOMBIAN CIVIL WAR AND HAD APPLIED FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM.HIS REQUEST WAS TURNED DOWN AND WAS ORDERED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.BUT ZAMBARANO DIDN'T LEAVE THE COUNTRY RATHER KEPT ON EARNING HIS LIVING BY DOING DIFFERENT PETTY JOBS.IN THE MEANWHILE,HE BECAME FATHER OF TWO MORE CHILDREN WHO EARNED THE NATIONALITY OF BELGIUM.LATER ON  ZAMBARANO BECAME JOBLESS,HE APPLIED FOR 'SOCIAL'-A MONETARY ASSISTANT PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR JOBLESS PEOPLES.HIS REQUEST WAS TURNED DOWN WITH A PLEA THAT HE WAS NOT A LEGAL RESIDENT OF BELGIUM.ON THIS REJECTION,HE DID NOT LOOSE HEART  RATHER APPEALED TO “LABOUR COURT” WHICH SOUGHT GUIDANCE FROM THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE.THE LATTER REMARKED THAT MEMBERS  OF EUROPEAN UNIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DEPORT SUCH PERSONS WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE NATIONALITY OF BELGIUM OR ANY OTHER EU COUNTRY.THE COURT FURTHER REMARKED THAT IF SUCH PERSONS , WHO HAD APPLIED FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM AND ALSO HAD EUROPEAN NATIONALITY HOLDING CHILDREN , ARE EXPELLED THEN THEIR CHILDREN WILL ALSO HAVE TO GO WITH THEM AND IT WILL BE VIOLATION OF CHILDREN'S BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.SO, ZAMBARANO WAS AWARDED NATIONALITY ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS .THIS IS HOW HUMANITY PREVAILED UPON ALL POLITICAL CHAOS,MEDIA DEBATES AND LEGAL HURDLES.A FAMOUS SCHOLAR FELON ONCE SAID: “I LOVE MY COUNTRY BETTER THAN MY FAMILY; BUT I LOVE HUMANITY BETTER THAN MY COUNTRY.” WE SHOULD FOLLOW SUIT! GEORGE MOORE HAS RIGHTLY SAID:"AFTER ALL THERE IS BUT ONE RACE--HUMANITY".