dear yunus, anike
who i love with my whole heart
both of you who welcomed me when i come to work with the papuan community like no one else, anike so outgoing and daring and fun, yunus shy but so much gentle and loving.
we love you and and just need to know that you are safe and free and happy..........
still i don't know if you have left by force or choice, but if its your choice, i must tell you this:
if you have chosen to leave, i can't understand why. but neither can i understand what it is to leave your home, to choose to take to the trechourous seas in an outrigger canoo in order to find safety, to end up living in a high rise in a city of 3million people far across the ocean from your wife and your mother. to have your freedom tied up with international politics and the whole entire world when all that you want is a good life for your family.
i can't understand, why our small community in melbourne is getting broken up by all these politics, when we work in politics simply because we love our community and want everyone to be free. please, please know that we want you to come back not because you are betraying one persons politics or another, but because we care for you, want you to be free, and miss you too much.
no, it is not possible for you to betray me politically. i just want you to be free. but it is possible that for you to betray your communities love. please, please if you are free to do so, please call to us, talk to us allow us to wish you luck if you do choose to leave.
i really mean it, we are all just real people, please all you businessmen and politicians and police and intelligence, please don't turn us into pawns
yunus, please just think for anike, and for all her big sisters and brothers who are crying for her too much. call us.
x reuben
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