FORGOTTEN REFUGEES TWO IRAQI BROTHERS IN INDIA

<p>Description</p><p>'My brother and I have tried to preserve our humanity and keep alive our hope that one day we</p><p>will find a country which will welcome us and a people who will embrace us.'</p><p>This is the remarkable story-as moving as it is inspiring-of two Iraqi brothers who</p><p>grow up in the midst of unending violence and become refugees losing everything</p><p>yet refuse to be broken.</p><p>Born in 1988 and 1991 even as children they saw their country descend into chaos</p><p>and impoverishment after the Gulf War and into bloody sectarian conflict after the</p><p>US-led invasion of 2003. Civil war and the sudden disappearance of their father</p><p>eventually forced them to take a flight to India and seek the protection of the United</p><p>Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).</p><p>But in a country they had been told was a place of tolerance they became the</p><p>nowhere people branded 'illegal' foreigners living in constant fear of being</p><p>deported and coping daily with a communal situation where they found their</p><p>Muslim identity was almost as perilous as their Shia identity in Iraq. Worst of all the</p><p>very agency that exists to support refugees like them and help with resettlement</p><p>abandoned them.</p><p>This book is the first time that any refugees in India have spoken so candidly and in</p><p>such detail of their experiences. Their testimony exposes many truths about India</p><p>as it does about the international refugee problem and the world's premier refugee</p><p>agency. Written by a human rights lawyer who has set precedents in refugee law</p><p>since the 1990s it is a passionate plea for the recognition of the rights of refugees.</p><p>It reminds policy makers agencies like the UNCHR-and every one of us-that</p><p>refugees are first and always human beings and not mere statistics. </p>