Submission 215
Message from child detained on Christmas Island, now detained on Nauru:
“Hello everyone, I am a thirteen years old boy that came to AUS with my parents and my eight years old brother for better and brighter future . we took the risk of this dangrius way because we had no other option. I heard Australian politicians say Iranian people come to Aus because of their economic problems. But we weren’t poor in our country. We weren’t hungry, homeless, jobless and illiteral. We immigrate because we had no freedom, no free speech and we had dictatoric. I don’t know who is reading my letter but i know perhaps, you can help us.We are staying in detention from nine months ago . We had no idea about law of 19th of july, we survived of that bloody ocean because of God willing but can’t live free because of politics. We are passing very difficult moments here. Here, people do food strike, lips and eyes sewing, surcide and many other terrible events. I hate our situation. Now, it’s about 1 year me and my brother haven’t gone to a real school and we are so sad, because both of us were first class students. We are not useless people. There are many qualified and educated people in here and i want to become a pilot when i grow up. I can hear my mother cries everynight in bed calmly but we can hear her, because our room is 6 cube meters and forth of us should sleep very close to each other. My father’s hairs are getting grey and he smoks or sleeps all the time. I never see him like this broken and depressed before. He was a truck driver and i was always proud of him but now? My little brother and other children play with soil, sands and lime stones from morning till night. We have no entertainment in detention in christmass island. I wish we could have our house and my father had a truck and my mother could cook delicious foods for us. We could go to school and some times go to park, cinema, restaurant, swimming pool and shopping. I miss all of these things and i miss to ride a bicycle . Please help us to be free. Thank you"
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