Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Seventh letter to the Hazara asylum seeker, Khodayar Amini


Dear Khodayar, before you arrived here they were ready for you with their false and so called humane slogans. They were ready with their distrustful eyes and their cruel and harsh treatments. They were ready to do this to you and to others of your kind – people forced onto the road who had to abandon their burnt out homes. They were determined you would not find any home here. They wanted you to wish you had never come here.
The harsh reefs that you had to pass, that you managed to pass to come here were not as harsh nor as treacherous as what you found here. They tortured you for 37 months and in that time you only just managed to keep your head above the waters. It was on the 18th of October, 2015 in the morning that the waters closed over you for the final time, and they looked like flames. It seemed like the voices of friends were in your ears at that last moment. You had roved from one end of this country to another seeking refuge and ended up by this creek in Dandenong. Love Stephen

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