Refugees are just...

Nidia Castro

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Nidia Castro was born in Chile in 1932. After the fall of the Allende government, she started writing articles for a clandestine, socialist paper and was arrested and tortured as a result. She came to the UK in 1976 with her three children and lived in Southampton for seven years before moving to London, where she worked to support the refugee communities in the city.

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Refugees are just human beings, but that they have to be treated as human beings not as numbers, or objects, or things that can be pushed around, and they should be a conscious that things, that terrible things can happen to anyone especially in these times that there are so many, so many, you know, things, natural things that are happening around and people find themselves in the most terrible circumstances and deprived of everything you have to start a new life and people should think that these refugees are human beings like anybody else, like their friends, their cousins, their sisters just human beings, that's all.