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hat should I write? What should I think? while everyone surrounding me hass worried despairing faces.
I am sure that they are wondering How long before they are allowed to leave here How long more? We who have experienced
wretchedness already. It seems years of that we have been in the same circumstances, Suffering Is it called fate?
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There are a lot of contrasting thoughts in my
mind. I am trying to find away of killing time, yet away of using it honestly. All things I am attempting to do are quite absurd. I wish the time would pass quickly so I could have better things for my life, but regretfully the
time is so indifferent to me. Nevertheless
time is gold. How miserable for any who leaves his country in order to live as a refugee.
my
I feel great sorrow when I recall nome Westerners who were appointed to interview and did not sympathies with our bad luck. I tried best to search these people in my memory, and the question answered for my- Self seems that we are only a reluctant debt that they are responsible for. I wanted to. scream at them to understand that we are innocent; please, please pay alittle attension to us but I Could not. because I am too insignificant to shout
at them know. the real situation here. The rea- Son is I felt hurt is because self-esteem and inferiority complex do not allow me such things.
No one has compassion on us except our fellow refugees. Perhaps it is because others have never been in the refugee: condition".
system. Of
course course we ought to do something for ourselves, and our motherland.
We have experienced a horrible situation at sea with the best boats. We wrestled with the angel of death and the mortal enemy We didn't mind typhoons pirates, food shorlig even death to seek freedom.
We struggled with the highest price of life arriving here where it is called the free. Country. Now we are seized with the mini-
mum rights and liberties.
So, at this time the resistant behaviour
and crazy actions have been lost. The most
Should we do now? We are like the birds sacred part of life can be understood. What
shut in the cage. My personality is also like that. Sometimes I feel very rigid, but very soo
How deplorable for us to hear people saying after I change my mind and I feel feeble. The Surroundings here have unfamiliar figures that we just left for food, clothes. Why don't they sympathies with crying hostility has replaced What affections can I expect to find? Wha
meaning for my life. clemency and all dogma has been destroyed. In stead of advancement there is only degression.
All beloved people bent their heads sobbing. How could we stand, living under the tyrannical
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