As the UN met to discuss the refugee crisis, one Syrian family was desperate to reunite
Kasem Alsabsabi has a German passport, and cancer, but his family is stuck in a camp in Athens.
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Rejecting the cut
Ouraye Sall holds up a razor blade and begins to describe, with the detachment of a surgeon, how she once used the tools of her former trade. She breaks the razor clean in half, then snips off the sharp corners. There’s no irony in her voice when she describes the great care she went to to avoid inflicting too much pain with the lethal instrument.
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Handicapped, but hopeful
Jerry the Geordie had just been fishing for landmines in the Zambezi River with his bare hands. In two days he had taken out 115 personnel mines in shallow water. His hands were lacerated but his spirits were high. ”How are you Susan, my love?” the ruddy Englishman asked one of the field workers. ”Gonna give Jerry a kiss?”
