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Ngos Demand Responsible Election Campaigning ISSUE 10 (190) • 10 – 16 MARCH 2011 • €3 • WWW.HELSINKITIMES.FI DOMESTIC BUSINESS TRAVEL LIFESTYLE CULTURE The ABC Business Turku Take Life of paper with is a snowy is work risks king walk a cabaret page 4 page 8 page 12 page 14 page 15 Saido Mohamed, Refugee Woman of the Year HELSINKI TIMES for the youth organisation Kanava MATTHEW PARRY – HT Nuoriso ry, in which adult Somalis are on call on week nights and week- THE FINNISH Refugee Council has ends in areas affected by unrest by nominated Somali-born special young Somalis. Mohamed worked nurse Saido Mohamed as Refugee with the Finnish League for Human Woman of the Year for 2011. This Rights in 2002 on the KokoNain- year the prize was awarded to a fe- en project, a preventative initiative male refugee who has performed against female circumcision. outstanding voluntary work. Saido Mohamed currently serves Saido Mohamed, 36, has vol- as the deputy chairwoman of the unteered with bodies such as the Finnish Somalia Network, and is Finnish Somali Association and car- the only woman serving on the ried out preliminary outreach work network’s board. Over the last ten years she has also cooperated on a voluntary basis with the associa- tion Sahed ry, serving as chairwom- Representatives of political parties signing the Charter of European Parties for a Non-Racist Society on 8 March. an of the board this year. “As Refugee Woman of the Year I want to continue with the volun- tary work I’ve undertaken so far. I al- so want to draw people’s attention to LEHTIKUVA / MIKKO STIG NGOs demand responsible the large number of young men and women from different walks of life who perform important, grassroots- level work with young people of dif- election campaigning ferent cultural backgrounds. There are so many people in this coun- HELSINKI TIMES if detention in police jails should be Discrimination in the Netherlands try whose voices are not currently abolished, the National Coalition, with the European Parliament, the Saido Mohamed heard,” Saido Mohamed says. the Green League, the Left Alliance Migration Policy Group and the mu- WITH all the major political parties and the Swedish People’s Party an- nicipality of Utrecht, with fi nancial in Finland having announced their swered “yes”, while the Centre, the support coming from the Europe- willingness to form a cabinet with Social Democrats and the Chris- an Commission. It was approved by the True Finns, NGOs are taking the tian Democrats believed the four- representatives of 40 political par- Raid on gang-run lead in ensuring the coming elec- day limit was good enough. Only the ties from EU member states in 1998. tions are fair and clean, and that True Finns answered “no”. The document calls on democrat- the parties are committed to basic Parties such as Change 2011 ic political parties within the EU to depot in Lohja results human rights and denounce racial and Vapauspuolue – Suomen tule- act responsibly when dealing with discrimination. vaisuus (“Freedom Party – Fin- issues related to race, ethnic and na- For example, Amnesty Interna- land’s Future”) were not part of the tional origin, and religion and to not in major drug haul tional asked the major parties a few survey, as they have no seats in the use racism in their campaigns. simple questions requiring only a parliament. Also, signatories pledge “to re- STT Helsinki Police Department, assist- yes or no answer. Another instance of NGOs getting fuse to display, to publish or to have MATTHEW PARRY – HT ed in the operation. Underage asylum seekers are involved was The Finnish League for published, to distribute or to endorse Last year offi cials uncovered a held in detention centres and, if Human Rights, together with the in any way views and positions which POLICE in Länsi-Uusimaa carried record amount of various drug-re- those are full, police cells that do Finnish Ombudsman for Minorities stir up or invite, or may reasonably out signifi cant drug confi scations lated crime. According to the Na- not meet international human and the Advisory Board for Ethnic be expected to stir up or invite, prej- in Lohja over the weekend. An in- tional Bureau of Investigation, the rights standards. Youngsters are Relations (ETNO), offering all regis- udices, hostility or division between dustrial depot used by the motor- trend has pointed upwards since often held in these cells much long- tered political parties the chance to people of different ethnic or nation- cycle gang Diablos MC was revealed the 1990s. The police are unable to er than the four days allowed by law. sign the Charter of European Parties al origins or religious beliefs, and to to contain a cannabis plantation de- say with any accuracy how much of When asked, “should the de- for a Non-Racist Society. deal fi rmly with any racist sentiment scribed by investigating offi cer Juk- this growth is down to more effi - tention of underage asylum seek- The Charter, which was penned and behaviour within its own ranks.” ka Paasio as “extraordinary” in the cient work by the authorities. ers be abolished,” all parties except in Utrecht, Netherlands, is a pro- All parties except Change 2011 Finnish context. More than 19,000 drug-relat- the National Coalition and the True ject that was initially carried out by and Vapauspuolue signed the “It was an extraordinarily pro- ed crimes of varying degrees of se- Finns answered “yes”. When asked the National Bureau against Racial charter. fessional and high-quality plan- verity came to the attention of the tation. There had really been a lot police in 2010. This constitutes an of time and money invested in it,” increase of between six and seven Paasio says. per cent on the previous year. In addition to cannabis, the op- The amount of serious or aggra- Your ticket, Ma’am? eration led the police to discover vated drug crime was up by a full 16 cocaine and amphetamines. Paasio per cent. The suspect in cases of ag- NICK BARLOW While there is a clear point to hav- HELSINK TIMES will not specify the amounts, but he gravated drug crime is increasingly ing inspectors, actually being one can’t OVASKAINEN HANNA says they were substantial and that often a foreigner. Their share of sus- – surely – be the most satisfying job there was a great deal of cocaine. pects climbed to 35 per cent last year. TRAVELLING on the metro or a bus in ever. It may be true that it’s a dirty job “I believe the seizure will have a Records were also broken in the Helsinki is rarely an edifying expe- and someone’s got to do it, but who are signifi cant impact on drug crime in seizure of cannabis plants. Around rience, especially if it’s something these largely anonymous inspectors this area.” 15,000 plants were seized, which is you have to do every day. While most responsible for enforcing ticket pol- The investigation is being treat- more than ever before people do not, of course, spend any icy? The only way to fi nd out was for ed as a case of aggravated drug The authorities were able to en- more time than necessary in public yours truly to accompany them on an crime. There are four suspects. snare 113 kilos of amphetamines transport, Helsinki City Transport’s afternoon’s ticket checking. Perhaps Paasio says they belong to the Ban- and almost ten kilos of Methylen- (HSL) ticket inspectors spend the there’s more to their job than meets didos and Diablos gangs. House edioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). Over majority of their time sampling the the eye. We aimed to fi nd out. Helsinki Times finds out what a day searches also turned up fi rearms. four kilos of cocaine were seized, as delights of the underground to Kon- in the life of a public transport ticket Karhu, a specialist squad inside the was half a kilo of heroine. tula or the number 4 tram. Read the full article on page 3. inspector is like. 2 10 – 16 MARCH 2011 VIEWPOINT HELSINKI TIMES Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. You can submit your articles to [email protected]. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters with spaces-long (maximum length 10,000). Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. Noora Kotilainen (born in 1979) holds a Master’s degree in political science. She is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki’s Social Science History section and is preparing a dissertation about humanitarian geopolitics and political visual culture. Kotilainen works at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs as a visiting scholar and also as a researcher at the Academy of Finland’s research project, ‘Ethics, Politics and Emergencies – Humanitarian Frame for Co-option and Collaboration in World Politics’. Lately, she has been concentrating her work on the Afghan war, its strategic communication and politics of visual culture. Humane crisis management – or lifestyle war? presented with concise ba- “EXPERIENCE. No money ture-theme used in recruiting sic information and fl ashy, can buy it”, is the headline in peacekeepers can be inter- According to the Finnish Defence Forces’ recruiting campaigns, full-colour photographs. The one of the defence forces’ re- preted in a nearly macabre crisis-management operations give the Finnish peacekeeper the op- campaign’s communication cruiting campaign’s posters. way if one examines the nar- correlated strongly with the What is depicted are heavi- rative on a global level and portunity to experience adventure, get a nice salary and gain good reasons the recruited peace- ly armed, straight-standing bears in mind how different- background experience for the challenges of professional life, writes keepers gave for applying to young and handsome male ly crises are experienced de- peacekeeping service.
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