Recently was celebrated the World Refugee Day! Nice to know that the most unfortunate lives thus get noticed! Refugees indeed are the worst affected, the worst treated.
Unlike the migrants, both of the immigrant and the emigrant varieties, refugees do not leave their country of origin out of choice. The refugees do not flee from the motherland in search of greener pastures, the way the migrants try.
Refugees are literally forced to leave their place. This coercion has many masks, political, ideological, economic. The vicious faces behind these hideous masks are most frightening. They leave no alternative open, except running away.
Rejected by the motherland, the refugees are not exactly welcome in the country of adoption. Most often, they are consciously made to feel that they are the most unwelcome burden. Forced are they to live in ghettoes, problematic existences every which way. Often they may not have the valid papers. Terrible is the treatment then.
They are thus utterly lonely in this vast universe, often without any valid means of livelihood.These ignored children of absolutely forgotten gods have an extremely uphill journey till they reach any acceptance of any variety. Indeed it is a soul searing loneliness, surviving which shows the tenacity and courage of these much misunderstood masters of fortitude and resilience.
Yet, like the Holocaust survivors, may be, because of the truly transformative experiences, refugees, too, have a largeness of soul. They may neither forget nor forgive. Yet they bravely soldier on in life. Most of them hence are better human beings.
Aai-Papa, given the ill treatment they had to suffer for no rhyme nor reason in the very early months of their marriage, had all these wonderful qualities of refugees, and that adds to my admiration for both of them.
Long should never live refugee-dom. Nor should anyone undergo such soul searing loneliness!
Pratima@ "No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark, " says Wassan Shire.
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