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Before I turned 12 my father was taken away by the police in the
middle of the night, and thrown in a prison camp. From reports we got through the
underground, we found out that my father had died after weeks of merciless torture.
My mother has tried to protect us from the same fate, but just last month my older brother
was abducted. We fear that he too will befall the same fate as my father. All
this because we do not support the current tyrranical leader. Since I was blinded in a
severe beating several months ago, it has been harder for me to help my mother take care
of my two younger sisters. I use my one good arm to make small pottery vases that we
sell down at the market, but even my hideous scars from the whippings do not elicit enough
sympathy from passersby to keep us from being hungry. Every week as I stumble back
from the market on my toeless feet I know that after we buy the medicine for my sister off
the black market we only have enough to by a single kilo of rice per week.
While we suffer, the US government and its citizens pay no attention. We have no
oil. No natural resources to speak of, so we are ignored. I am trying to use
this forum to bring attention to my country, and hope that you, the citizens of America
can contact your leaders and tell them of my country's plight. We need your help. |
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