The family tree hangs on the wall, trying to hold its grip against the brisk winds of summer in the hope of a helping hand. The plants in the Veranda stand thirsty in the winter afternoons expecting someone to sprinkle some water over them. The kitchen feeds the rusted walls with its loneliness, the fan throws the air of emptiness over the hall. Maybe someday, someone will fill in the place, someone will feed the crows outside the veranda over the tree across, someone will water the plants, someone will switch on the lights. Like they left from here to there, someone will leave from there to here, and make this there home. A home of a REFUGEE.
On this World Refugee day, i list out some of the World's biggest refugee crisis.
1. Syria
This is the most destroyed region post the Arab Spring. After war erupted between the civilians and the Syria Government in March 2011, it took two years for 1 million people to be displaced. Another million were displaced within six months. Now seven years on, more than half of the pre-war population has been internally displaced or forced to seek safety in neighboring countries.
2. Afghanistan
After the withdrawn of Soviet in late 80's, a civil war erupted in Afghanistan. In the next 10 years, Afghanistan became the hub of terrorism and human rights violation. It resulted in terrible living conditions for the civilians. It lacks insecurity and political stability, which has resulted in migration of civilians from Afghanistan in huge numbers. Over one million people are estimated to be living in new and prolonged displacement, while nearly 2.5 million people have been forced to leave the country to Iran, Pakistan or Europe.
3. South Sudan
Again the conditions in South Sudan is a product of a brutal civil war, which erupted in 2013. Which caused the largest refugee crisis in Africa.
South Sudan gained Independence from Sudan in 2011. Just 2 years later, the political party which led them to freedom collapses, and fights among each other for power. From December 2013, the conditions in South Sudan has been getting worse minute by minute, Political conflict, compounded by economic woes and drought, has caused massive displacement, raging violence and dire food shortages. 7 million people — more than 60 percent of the population — are in need of aid and at risk of going hungry by end of June 2018. Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of young ones are facing an uncertain future — according to UNICEF, 75 percent of the country’s children are out of school .
4. Palestine
Creation of Israel in 1948, came with a huge number of deployment of local Palestinians to neighboring Arab countries. Somewhere around 8 lack people were forced to leave their houses and belongings. After 70 years, till today this remains one of the vital aspect over the solution in Israel Palestine conflict. The Palestinian refugees hope to return back to their home, whereas Israel Jews see this as their existential threat. The Palestine representatives consider the Right to return as non negotiable.
There is nothing worse than leaving the place called home. To be called a refugee is the opposite of Insult, it's the batch of Strength and Courage.