The following story is a work of fiction.
It is inspired by real events and based on reports from various reputable sources, including national newspapers and UNHCR.
None of the characters are real persons
and any resemblance to persons alive or dead are purely coincidental.
Where place names are given, these are real,
however, descriptions of activities which take place there and the people involved are fictitious.
Copyright © - William King
All rights reserved
2017
Refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
"Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history."
Antonio Guterres - Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Refugee
General FictionCan you imagine the future when you are thirteen years old? When you've lost everything? From the ruins of war in a bombed out town in Syria; the desperation of refugee camps; and slum cities in Turkey, the paramount goal is safety and the impossibl...
