The cops stripped me naked and beat me with sticks and belts. I'd cry, scream, beg — urinating was severely painful. They didn't give me water and food for five days. I had to chew my clothes. I was in so much pain I could have eaten grass.
I was a refugee, a slave in my own country. I came to India to escape decades of statelessness, violence, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Now, I am called an illegal immigrant.
I was always aware of being a brown officer in a room full of white officers. I always felt like an outsider.
Omar Bekali, 45, is considered the first person to speak publicly about being detained in China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs.
I walked into my classroom and talked with the students about the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. I asked if they had any idea what it felt like to be black or something other than white in this country. They said no.
Racism wasn't about hate, as one living on the inside of this story as a brainwashed kid.
We will continue to fight for our ancestral rights to the land
Every time I was shortlisted for interviews, the interviewer would look stunned that I am albinistic.
