I am from the Sayed denomination in the Hazara group in Afghanistan – a minority…
I am from the Sayed denomination in the Hazara group in Afghanistan - a minority within a minority. We are actually one of the most persecuted minority groups in the world. In our tribe, my family were very well respected, and that was both our strength and our...
The war came to Damascus when I was 14 years old. At first, it didn’t really aff…
The war came to Damascus when I was 14 years old. At first, it didn’t really affect our lives too much, but after a couple of years, it became very dangerous and scary. A lot of students lost their hands or feet in bomb attacks on our school, and some of them died....
My father died 7 years ago. Unfortunately, in Afghanistan, when a woman loses he…
My father died 7 years ago. Unfortunately, in Afghanistan, when a woman loses her husband, she has no rights. And as they are not allowed to be educated, they cannot take care of their children by themselves. Instead the brother of the husband will automatically take...
The first time we tried to leave Iran was not a success. We paid people smuggler…
The first time we tried to leave Iran was not a success. We paid people smugglers to take us to Turkey. They divided us into two groups and said they would be moving us three days apart. In the first group was my mum, 3 sisters, my uncle and a friend. In the second...
I was only 6 months old when my dad got killed in the war, so I don’t have any m…
I was only 6 months old when my dad got killed in the war, so I don’t have any memories of him. Mum was always the only person providing for us. She worked in the daytime as a midwife, and at night in the emergency department helping people who had been hurt by the...
Although my father was from Congo, my mother was from a Tutsi group from Burundi…
Although my father was from Congo, my mother was from a Tutsi group from Burundi, and due to ethnic conflict at the time, her people started being targeted. The first thing that happened was that my father lost his job as a government intelligence officer because he...
I identify as gender queer as well as queer. I was not a typical girl but not re…
I identify as gender queer as well as queer. I was not a typical girl but not really a typical boy either. I was just this weirdo who wanted to sit alone on the playground and read science-fiction books, and the other kids at school didn’t know what to do with that....
I left Bhutan in 1991 due to the ethnic cleansing targeting Nepalese speaking pe…
I left Bhutan in 1991 due to the ethnic cleansing targeting Nepalese speaking people at that time as part of the government’s One People, One Nation, One Language campaign. Suddenly, marriages between our cultural group were discouraged and we were forced to marry...
My husband and I both came to Australia as teenagers and we joke about how the o…
My husband and I both came to Australia as teenagers and we joke about how the only time we feel like we belong somewhere is when we fly over an ocean, because although we belong in two worlds - Zimbabwe and Australia, we also feel we don’t belong to either. My last...
When I was 7 years old, we had to leave Bhutan because the government kicked out…
When I was 7 years old, we had to leave Bhutan because the government kicked out all the people of Nepalese origin. But in Nepal we were not considered citizens either so we had to live in a refugee camp. I lived there for 20 years. It was a very hard life. Nothing...
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