Published: July 05, 2020
We have been scared and thought authorities had forgotten us. Why didn’t they talk to us before?
It is shocking to suddenly find police all over your home, and the government saying to you: “Go to your room and don’t come out.” We are shocked but I am also happy, because we were scared the government had forgotten us, and we have been very frightened, and now something is being done about it.
My name is Awatif Taha and I am from the Sudan. I have lived in the public housing flats in Flemington for 18 years, since I came to Australia with my husband. He is a journalist and, after working some years in Egypt, he wasn’t able to return to Sudan because of the government’s attitude.
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