Fact or fiction?

Posted on November 9, 2013 Updated on November 9, 2013

 

By Majeed Mohades, Camp Liberty

A contingent of government forces break into a refugee camp with automatic rifles, handcuff and murder half its residents, abduct seven others, and explode millions of dollars’ worth of property. The government denies having taken part in the attack, keeps the hostages in its secret prisons, and lays the blame on the residents of the camp itself.

The international community remains silent and refrains from taking action to save the lives of the hostages, which triggers an immense wave of outrage across the world, and hundreds of people go on hunger strike in protest to this injustice.

The story quickly turns into an international political scandal and a humanitarian crisis, with the lives of the hostages and the hunger strikers hanging in the balance.

This is not an excerpt from John Grisham’s newest bestseller. Neither is it the script for the next academy-award-winning movie. This is reality. Read the rest of this entry »