When you have suffered gravely, you view and live life a certain way.
Far from making others suffer or wishing suffering on others, for instance, you don't even wish suffering on those you hold responsible for your own suffering. Knowing what it was like, you want to do everything you can to alleviate the sufferings of others instead.
The plight of a number of Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar suffering from grave injustice for over a year and with very little chance of seeing justice being served!
A wrong is righted! Roshan, a Nepalese migrant worker, stuck in Qatar for 13 years, unable to leave because of a travel ban, was able to do so within about a month of initiating a small campaign to get him out.
The final hour in Doha, Qatar on May 13, 2013, I was at Doha Airport, headed to my flight taking me home. So that I didn't feel all alone, which I was, I texted my friends in Doha, providing them updates on my progress toward the flight.
Real life Prison Break-esque story except he hasn't made it out! This is the story of a Nepalese man, unable to leave Qatar because the authorities wouldn't right all the wrong done to him. In a last ditch effort, deliberately gets arrested with the hope of being deported! But he is still languishing in Qatar! Can someone help?
A piece published in Kantipur, a Nepalese paper, written by Hom Karki, a journalist I talked to the day after my release from prison in May 2013.