Tuesday, October 13, 2009

urgh...

My client's final statement: “I am asking that UNHCR please protect me”

UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UN's agency for refugees)? Protect a person?
Large governmental institution + individual that’s been seriously shit on his entire life...can there really be a relationship?

Why must a person, a human being, get to this point that he must turn to a soulless, bureaucratic agency to save his life? Perhaps give him a life?

He has no idea where his family is- perhaps, never will again. He is heartlessly ridiculed for the way his tongue makes words even though they are the same words that others say with a different accent. He is tortured because he was born to his parents, of his particular tone of skin, he has been runnig for 15+ years…

Why/how can people be so stupid and cruel to treat others this way that force him to run…and turn to…the UNHCR?
I should be grateful that such an institutional organization and world collaboration exists, but right now, I cannot.
WTF?

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