THE UNBROKEN REFUGEE: BEHROUZ BOOCHANI


      THE UNBROKEN REFUGEE: BEHROUZ BOOCHANI

© 2019                                CHIBU NDUBUISI                           WEEK 5 2019

“Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder”. Rumi

 
Peace be upon you,

According to article 1 of the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, defines a “Stateless Person” as a person who is not considered a National by any State under its operation. The United Nation Commission for Refugee (UNCHR) adds that at least 10 million people around the world are denied a nationality including Behrouz Boochani our topic for today.

Behrouz Boochani fled Iran after the police there arrested several of his journalist colleagues and equally raided his office. The Australian Navy intercepted his boat as he was trying to reach the country and was sent to Manus Island in 2013 and has been in detention for more than five years.

Asylum seeker who try to enter by sea into Australia are barred from entering the country. The asylum seekers are sent to Australia offshore detention centres on the Republic of Nauru and Manus Island as Australia Migration Policy stipulates.
Behrouz Boochani from his detention centre wrote a book through Whatsapp text titled “No Friends but the Mountains” which won the 2019 Victorian prize for literature worth 125,000 Australian Dollars.

A popular Stoic saying avers that “ The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” The refugee status of Behrouz Boochani was made to impede his action, but the unintended consequence was that the detention facility was the pivotal stone he needed to spring globally. You have a State likewise myself. What is your excuse not to contribute towards making the world a better place?

Jonathon Sacks noted that “we are not what we own but what we share” . Behrouz Boochani shared his story and we saw a man with a will to still live a meaningful life despite all obstacle and odds.

The point for today is that “you must nurture your body and mind to fulfill your dreams”. “Others may build a cave with their with their clay(knowledge, experience, money, personality) but be determined to build a castle with your own clay as Behrouz Boochani did.

Peace be with you.


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