The oldest refugee in the world and the tale of our collective failures
Born in 1907 in now a refugee in Athens, Sabria witnessed the closing years of the Ottoman Empire, first world war, the French mandate, Baath party rule and now the Syrian civil war
vidéo: Sabriya from Syria does not want to die away from her family
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Syria’s Civil War and the World’s Oldest Refugee
“I was not sure I would see the morning last night,” Sabria Khalaf, a 107-year old refugee from Syria told me in Athens, Greece, in January. She is the oldest refugee in the world.
Sabria’s story is a crossroad between tragedies of war and sectarianism, and a world overwhelmed by the increasing population of refugees fleeing unending conflicts.
I met Sabria in a run-down building in central Athens. I bowed to her. In her frail voice, she thanked me for the visit. She put her hands on her eyes, then her head, and asked God to protect me.
Sabria was frail, fatigued not just by old age, but also by a long and torturous journey that had brought her to this strange city. She was in Athens by chance and did not know the world around her. “I would have made you tea if I was feeling better,” she apologized.
▻http://www.theglobalist.com/syrias-civil-war-worlds-oldest-refugee
