Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The way home is beautiful and happy...

Everything is changing.War is such a monster, maybe it will bring you to hell, maybe it will send you to heaven. The 35,860 Chinese citizens who were evacuated from Libya have now been transported to several countries including Egypt, Tunisia, Greece, Malta, Sudan, Jordan, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Tracing back to the source, this regional change is the "butterfly effect" caused by the turmoil in Tunisia. First, Egypt was affected, and then the fuse quickly burned to Libya, spreading to Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and other countries, forming a "political tsunami". .If the "butterfly" in Tunisia had not flapped its wings, Mubarak in Egypt would not have been imprisoned and tried; in the same way, if Mubarak could have withstood the demonstrations in the square that overthrew him, Gaddafi might still be doing "Africa" ​​today. Emperor's dream!However, history will not go backwards. The tsunami caused by the turmoil has allowed those opposition parties who vowed to overthrow the dictatorship to take power. It is impossible for them to hand over the fruits of victory to their former enemies and today's political opponents.

The stranded citizens of China and many other countries are innocent victims of the turmoil in West Asia and North Africa. They have the sword of Damocles hanging above their heads and will die under the guns at any time.The most urgent and urgent thing to do in times of turmoil is to protect the safety of the lives of the expatriates and evacuate them from places of right and wrong as soon as possible. "We came out of death, and now we're terribly hungry and terribly homesick..." In the early morning of the 24th, Beijing time, in the small town of Salum on the border of Lie, the evacuation team of 381 people composed of employees from China Hydropower Company and China Construction Company was sent to our station as soon as they got rid of the exhausted and tormented embarrassment of leaving the country. The staff of the Egyptian embassy enthusiastically sent eight luxury buses to Cairo, the capital, cleared by the Egyptian police.On the way, a young engineer turned on the computer and found that the network status was very good, which was incomparable with the previous days in Libya, so he was very excited and couldn't wait to write the above sentence on his blog. After that, his eyelids began to Fighting, I no longer have the strength to write down...

Ten hours later, the young engineer woke up and found that he and his teammates had arrived in Cairo, and were arranged in a place that surprised them—a hotel where the pyramids could be seen from the windows.Excited, he couldn't suppress the passion in his heart, so he continued to write the blog post: I have been working in North Africa for three years. In fact, many of us have never really enjoyed the scenery and scenic spots here. Although we have passed by Cairo several times, we have never seen the pyramids so close.I think not to mention my more than 300 co-workers.Most of them are migrant workers. When they left home, they had a dream of going to Africa to pan for gold. In fact, their dream of panning for gold was just thinking of earning tens of thousands of dollars a year for their wives or children.Some of them have worked in the Libyan desert for two or three years. Except for flying back and forth through Egypt, Dubai and other famous countries and their scenic spots, it is actually the same as not going abroad.Some of them had just come out to work as laborers, and they hadn't even learned how to greet Libyans with "Hello", before the war started.

Many Libyans will die after the war, and we foreign nationals will become refugees.In Africa, there are too many refugees, and the fate of refugees is actually the most tragic. Except that the United Nations has a refugee agency that can pay some attention to them, it is said that there are millions of refugees in Africa caused by wars or natural disasters every year. Among them Hundreds of thousands of people died.The death of refugees has become commonplace, and the life and value of human beings are not even comparable to that of a dog, so they don't attract people's attention at all.

Now I am a refugee too, and my co-workers are refugees.When leaving the country, I saw that many workers had nothing on them, no money, no luggage, and only a few thin pieces of clothing that they wore with them, but their pockets or waists were stuffed with wood used by masons and carpenters. Brush and pliers.This kind of thing is not allowed to be brought into the customs. Some of my co-workers quarreled with the customs officers on the Egyptian border and refused to confiscate the tools they used for working and eating.One worker even started to cry, saying, "Not only have I not received a single wage when I went abroad to work, but now even the pliers I brought from home have been confiscated..."

Looking at the scene in front of me, my eyes were sore, and I thought to myself, if the country doesn't find a way to evacuate these laborers who don't even know a single English letter, what will be their fate if they stay in the war-torn Libya? "No loss! We didn't go abroad for nothing, we even saw the pyramids!" No trip abroad in vain! This is also what the workers said, what they said now, what they said just now, and what they said right next to me!You can see that their faces are full of excitement, happiness and satisfaction... They are crowded on the balcony of the hotel, by the window of the room, and some even ran to the high platform in the yard.

Yesterday, my fellow workers were still in shock and covered in dirt, but now they are all full of energy and radiant, just like relaxed and happy tourists abroad.Looking at the dual worlds of my fellow workers for more than ten hours, what I want to say most now is: My motherland, we are really grateful to you!Because without you, not to mention whether my fellow workers are alive or dead, even someone like me who knows a few foreign languages ​​and has traveled far and wide may not be able to return home alive... At about 18:00 that night, the young engineer and 227 workers from the same unit flew back to the motherland on the second chartered plane from China (that is, the special planes used by the second and third special operations teams of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).Another 100 people were transferred back to China on Qatar Airways under the arrangement of our embassy in Egypt.

In fact, at this time, there was another evacuation charter flight to the motherland in the sky, and that was Air China flight CCA060 piloted by Ji Xueyong.It's just that the 223 compatriots on this charter flight enjoyed the warmth from the motherland ten hours earlier than those on the second charter flight. "Please slow down, slow down...Okay! You sit here." After Zhang Qifeng, the flight attendant, introduced six pregnant women into the first-class cabin, he arranged seven children in the first-class cabin one by one. "Is this our seat?" "Yes, kid, what's the problem?"

"This is where my mother's boss sits!" "Yes, I will sit for you today!" "Thank you uncle!" "you are welcome." This is a warm conversation between Zhang Qifeng and a child, and the cabin is filled with happiness and joyful warmth. "Comrade, I haven't eaten for three days. I really can't go back." A woman on board put her hand on Zhang Qifeng's shoulder unsteadily as soon as she entered the cabin. "Okay, you sit here." Zhang Qifeng asked the flight attendant Xiao Li to help the woman settle down nearby, and quickly handed him a cup of steaming milk.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you motherland!" The woman first began to cry, and then kept nagging about the suffering she had endured in Libya.Others were so tired that they fell asleep, she was still talking, she was still crying, unable to control herself for a long time.The situation made Zhang Qifeng and other flight attendants both sad and sympathetic, and cared for every compatriot who escaped from the death line. "Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation! The compatriots in front have not eaten or slept for several days and nights. Please bring enough food and various health supplies on the plane that has been arranged to pick you up." This is Zhang He, the crew of the Consular Security Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Qun, Zhang Liang and the other comrades had already told the Civil Aviation Administration of China to dispatch the plane.

Zhang Qifeng later said: "We prepared three main meals before departure, enough for a ten-hour flight, as well as food such as eight-treasure porridge, sesame cakes, instant noodles, oranges, sausages, etc. There were 600 large oranges on the plane. I found a young woman who ate one and then stopped, so I asked her if there was any discomfort. The woman said that she was an international student, and when she was in Tripoli, the school began not to release them. The airport was not crowded enough for the flight, so I thought I would not be able to go back to my country, and I couldn’t go home. I didn’t expect the motherland to send a large Air China plane to pick them up so soon. She has been studying abroad for six years, and this is the best meal she has eaten on the plane After a meal, she wants to take this orange home, so that the family can share the happiness and warmth from the motherland." On the first charter flight of Ji Xueyong and Zhang Qifeng who evacuated their compatriots back to China, there were also 18 female employees of Beijing Hongfu Group.Zhang Qifeng later heard from these female employees that Hongfu Group had 2,039 people in Lili at that time. They were in the two construction sites of Janduba and Gatiss respectively. Today, these female employees not only stay in the shed and dare not go out, but also male employees guard them. On the 22nd, when the company learned that China had sent a chartered flight to Tripoli, it contacted the embassy and sent the 18 female employees to the airport.Translator Yang Wenjing said, let others go first!At that moment, she felt very tragic and wanted to fight with everyone.But because she was ill, the leader still insisted on letting her go.Besides, women are prone to accidents in such a country.The next day when they arrived at Tripoli Airport, it started to rain, and the rain got bigger and bigger. There was no place to take shelter from the rain in the airport. Everyone got wet and could only hide under the eaves of a small shed and shiver.The women's toilet at the airport is a small thatched hut. Because there are too many people going to the toilet, there is a long queue.Suddenly there were gunshots all around, and the female employee was so scared that she was at a loss. She wanted to go to the bathroom but didn't dare, so she started to cry.It was later learned that the police might have fought with the demonstrators. On the plane, Yang Wenjing shook the hands of Zhang Qifeng and other flight attendants several times and said, "Everything I see in my country is good and kind." At 2:30 a.m. Beijing time on the 25th, the maiden charter flight carrying 223 evacuated compatriots arrived at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport. Yang Wenjing and her colleagues printed out a crude banner prepared in advance, which read "Thanks to the motherland" .The moment she walked towards the cabin door, Yang Wenjing saw those female international students also put up a bright slogan with the words "Long Live the Motherland" on it. When they walked out of the cabin holding the banners, they saw countless people at the airport waving and cheering to them, especially the particularly eye-catching huge slogan "Welcome Home", which made these war-stricken women never again. Unable to bear it, "Woooo" burst into tears... It was a cry of happiness, a tear of happiness welling up from the depths of my heart when I returned to my mother. You Quan, Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council, and Song Tao, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs were also among the welcome crowd. They brought the cordial care of the central leadership and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the returning compatriots. 35,860 people have to return home after leaving Libya. This is a big problem, a big problem that has never been encountered before. They are suffering a lot, and they are eager to go home, but there are not only specific problems such as chartering boats, cars, and planes, but also many practical difficulties such as going through various procedures in the transit country.We must let these compatriots go home as soon as possible, go home safely, and go home happily!Zhang Dejiang and Dai Bingguo made such requests at the meeting of the National Evacuation Headquarters.Such a request has been put forward from the very beginning, and such a request has been specifically implemented in every detail of the relevant action when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assists the country in formulating an evacuation plan. Let us go to the scene of the three main transfer and evacuation points in Tunisia, Malta, and Greece to experience it together.