whammy schreef op 6 maart 2016 11:17:
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Inderdaad een aangrijpend relaas. Toch enkele kanttekeningen erbij.
Het verhaal van Feisal. Hij moet zijn dorp ( stad) vlakbij Horms, gesticht door zijn voorouders, verlaten en vlucht naar de Bekaa vallei in Libanon. Vervolgens komen 250 dorpelingen hem en zijn gezin achterna.
'Arriving in the Bekaa, they camped on a friend’s property, where, unusually, they pay nothing in rent. Over time, his whole village joined him, and today they number 250.
Feisal has saved his village, now transplanted, and watched it grow. But there is no pleasure or happiness in it, only despair and fear.
Thirty children have been born since they arrived. He says it is very hard when children are born because of the extra costs. His youngest son, Mouyad, is 18 months old. Feisal worries that he’ll become homeless, an itinerant illegal labourer earning $2 a day.
He cannot afford to register Mouyad or any of his family as refugees with the Lebanese government – a cost of $2,000 for his immediate family – and so, Feisal, as an illegal refugee, rarely ventures away from the camp.Mijn punt in deze is onderstreept en cursief.