Refugee Comic Strip
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- UN
- Why do the Hungarians care if we are just passing through?
- United Nations Observations
- Why are we even here?
- Why did they take us all the way to the Austrian border only to throw us in a detention center?
- United Nations Observations
- It's like I'm actually invisible.
- I bet they see me now!
- The refugee detention center is guarded by Hungarian soldiers. Observers from the UN are walking around and checking on the refugees being held there.
- United Nations Observations
- Hey! Stop! No! Not allowed!
- Mahmoud realizes that "Whether you were visible or invisible, it was all about how other people reacted to you." So he decides "It was better to be visible. To stand up. To stand out."
- Mahmoud! What are we doing?
- We can do it We’ve already come this far. We can go just a little farther.
- We're walking to Austria!
- "Mahmoud decided right then and there he was going to make sure the observers saw him."
- The guard started to raise her gun at Mahmoud, and then she glanced up and saw the frowns on the UN observers.
- Waleed ran up alongside his brother. His eyes were bright and alive for the first time Mahmoud could remember.
- Together, Mahmoud and his family led the refugees all the way to Germany.
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