WE ARE REFUGEES!!!
As according to the United Nation- "Refugees are defined as persons
who are outside their country and cannot return owing to a well-founded fear of
persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or
membership of a particular social group." It might be red day to
remind us about the ongoing plight of millions of refugees all around the
world. “Nasodha malai kaha dhukcha ghau” Is the statement most of the refugees
replied with heart pounding when I put forward this and that as a part of
writing this article. As citizens of
this democracy, we are the rulers and the ruled, the law followers and the
abiders, the beginning and the end. Citizenship consists in the yeoman
of the country. Government should guarantee the basic right to the citizen. The
safety net disappears when one is refugee.
I remember Bhutanese fleeing my home country
to escape war or any sort of persecution and are often seen in a vulnerable
situation. Here what I am trying is to portrait comprehensively of the lives of
refugees, asylum seekers, & the stateless in all corners of globe found.
Various national & international organizations are committed to provide
tents and relief kits to flood stricken communities. They have been working
round the clock to build roads, install water distribution pipelines&
provide access to health care. I have
even heard the lives of refugees in Jordan, Malawi, & Namibia. There are
much South Sudan refugees even In Ethiopia. Thailand has set to repatriate
thousands of Myanmar refugees. Much of the problem comes from one simple fact:
we don’t believe them. In other words, ‘the culture of disbelief’ can make us
deaf to the genuine cries of protection; we must allow their cries of pain to
be heard.
They all share a common
thread to survive, preserve and build hopes whilst every a single refugee has
their own story and own anguish to share. Sabitra Mishra, who originally is
from Bhutan and spend some youthful years in Nepal and now currently at States,
on my conversation, said they had been facing deplorable miseries…no job, no
allowed to work, no freedom of movement. Above all, she could not think about
her future and felt completely not less than like being in jail. Manu Neupane,
another refugee, shares that there is a displacement of tens of thousands of
people, many of whom sought shelters at temporary transit and reception
centres. We are facing tough turmoil decision in this true to toiling life.
There is always a quest to reach safety. Ramesh Sharma, excerpts from article
38 of the convention on the right of the child that children below age 15 may
not be recruited into the armed forces. He has seen conflict and violence
separating millions of refugees from their loved ones. He is also one amongst
them. One refugee family turn apart by war is too many. Article 14 clearly states-
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in countries asylum from
persecution. Nothing could be more
insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means a perpetual
second-class citizenship. Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of
Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps
for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work.
Doesn't the world see this injustice?
Angellina Jolie said once- I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and
the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honour of
citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of
the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire. Someone in
this land is supposedly found saying such for the prosperity of the future-“If
I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want
to come to Australia.” The great physicist Albert Einstein was a refugee. There
are more than 40 million displaced people around the world half are children.
You know, Hip-hop artist K’naan was a refugee.
Anyway, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. Menchu Rengubart,
Noble peace prize laureate, said-“ We are not myths of the past, ruins in the
jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims
of intolerance and racism.” This might be the best line that refugees always and ever want to hear.
Human rights must transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.
Regional conflicts, economic and social crisis, political instability abuses of
human rights, racism, hunger are some of the impediments that I can list a few
from the whole are also the root causes of refugee’s problems. This is not the
issue merely carried by humanitarian effect. Let’s pray one another joining
hands in the structuring of world in which less people will be forced to flee, and
in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day. I
see a lot of dignity in their eyes despite very miserable living strata and the
trauma of what they went through. Let’s
care our less fortunate brothers and sisters. Isn’t the displaced societies are
our worth mentions?
Featured by- Amrit Bhandari
amritbhandar@gmail.com
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