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Sunil Dutta juxtaposed his life with that of his brother (Kaushal/Raju) in Stealing Green Mangoes to understand the reasons that shaped their poles apart paths. In this memoir, he enthrallingly moved from portraying his atrocious childhood in Jaipur's camp, the displacement of his family following India's partition in 1947 that was preceded by the eruption of religious violence, meeting the love of his life, becoming an academic, joining LAPD, and the excruciating cancer journey, to analyzing the life choices of his brother and gang members. He concluded that the heartless acts of gang members are not different from what the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikh have done! Their washed brains masked their sensibility to act humanly, benefiting ammunition factories in the first scenario, and fulfilling the British dream of weakening India in the second case by reducing the number of both, its ports on the Arabian Sea and owned oil wells.
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In As We Always Have Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson presented the epic life of Indigenous people of the Americas in resisting the oppression and insolence of the colonizers, who forcefully looted their land, murdered, and displaced their people. The Indigenous has a history of oppression and obliteration of their identity, which they still bear its consequences to this day. Such occupation violates human rights by enforcing evictions, discrimination, unfair trials, torture…etc. This must be discontinued because every nation has the right to live peacefully in its land and participate in governing it, which is the request of Native Americans and Native Canadians.
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In الأجراس ثلاثية (Triple Bells) Ibrahim Nasrallah presented the epic life of Palestinians in resisting the oppression and insolence of Israel, who forcefully looted their land, murdered, and displaced their people. Palestinians has a history of oppression and obliteration of their identity, which they still bear its consequences to this day. Such occupation violates human rights by enforcing evictions, demolitions, arbitrary detention, discrimination, unfair trials, torture…etc. This must be discontinued because every nation has the right to live peacefully in its land and participate in governing it, which is the request of Palestinians.
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The suffering of Palestinians to find a job and support their families continued post the Israeli occupation as G. Kanafani showed in رجال في الشمس. This story is just a glimpse of the infuriating journey that the displaced go through in the hope of finding a better life in another land! Sadly, many of these immigrants die in the desert, sink in the sea, or get captured and jailed! Countless humans experienced such distress after WWI, WWII, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also until this day, many people from Africa, Asia, or Latin America endure terrible conditions and die in the Mediterranean, Pacific Ocean, or Sonoran desert while trying to escape conflict and cross to safety.
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