Bidoon in Kuwait: Living Without a State

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100% of donations will go to the families of Zayed AlAsmi and Badr AlFadli, who both committed suicide on the 6th of November due to their sufferings as "Bidoons" in Kuwait.

Categorized as “illegal” residents, Kuwait’s stateless population (called “Bidoon”) are denied citizenship, despite many of them having been born in Kuwait. While Kuwaiti citizens receive financial and social benefits from the wealthy state, Bidoon are denied even basic social services by virtue of their lack of citizenship.

Kuwait, now one of the richest countries in the world, has been discriminating against 2.3 percent of its population for over half a century. Tens of thousands of Arab people in Kuwait did not receive citizenship after the country gained its independence in 1961. These people are known as Bidoon (a short form of bidoon jinsiya in Arabic, meaning “without nationality”). This pejorative term is also used for migrant workers who settled in Kuwait after independence during the oil boom in the 1960s and 70s.

كاره نفسي حيل، كانت أحد آخر الجمل التي كتبها الشاب البدون في الكويت قبل إنتحاره، حيث تداول رواد مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في الكويت، صورة لمحادثة منسوبة إلى زايد العصمي الرجل ”البدون“ الذي أقدم على الانتحار مساء الاثنين في ”جاخور“ في الجهراء.

وتضمن مقطع المحادثة عبارات مؤثرة بين الرجل وابنه، وفق ما جاء في الصورة المتداولة، حيث أشار الأب إلى عزمه لإنهاء حياته والانتحار بسبب الضغوط والمعاناة التي لم يحددها.

وجاء في سياق المحادثة كشف الأب لابنه عن معاناته وإرهاقه ومحاولته الانتحار بالسم لكن دون جدوى، متابعاً بأنه سيشنق نفسه، موصياً ابنه بالعناية بنفسه.

وتفاعل النشطاء مع المحادثة لاحتوائها على حديث مؤثر بين الأب وابنه، مبينين ”أن هذه المحادثة دليل على تعرض العصمي للظلم والمعاناة، مما دفعه لإنهاء حياته بهذا الشكل“.

Source: وطن الدبور



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