Iraqi refugees living in Kansas City talk about oppression, death -- and their hopes for change
kansascity.com
........In Hussein's Iraq, he said, good people are routinely stopped, questioned, incarcerated, tortured and killed for no reason. His father, he said, was killed for praying in a mosque that Saddam didn't like. His mother was tortured. All of her teeth were cut out of her mouth.
Here, he said, no one stops him, or restricts where he can go, or what he can say or do. In fact, despite the dangerous picture Hussein painted about America, he has found it nothing but friendly and helpful.
The Don Bosco Center rented the family a house. The government gave them food stamps and Medicare.
"In my country nobody helps you," he said through the translator. "This country helps anybody. It's wonderful.".......
......."The people of Iraq like the people of America," he said. "And the day they take Saddam Hussein out the people of Iraq will never forget the United States."....... |
