The journalist, Bijan Hosseini, wrote in a tweet on the website "Twitter"details the perilous journey his sister has taken, until her safe arrival in Poland.
He added that during the escape trip, his sister suffered racism wounds, severe cold and sleep deprivation, saying that this case is only one of the hundreds of thousands of people who are stuck in Ukraine And today they want to get away from fire of war.
He pointed out that his sister, by adoption, hails from Sierra Leone, and this is what delayed her exit from Ukraine to Poland, after the start of the Russian invasion.
The journalist said that his sister and those with her had to walk ten full hours in a cold temperature, to reach the border of Poland, because the driver told them that he had to return to Kyiv, and at that, they had to get rid of some luggage to ease the burden.
This testimony regarding racist practices, on Ukraine borders With neighboring countries, it is not the first, as those fleeing war have previously spoken of giving greater care to white-skinned people who appear to be European.
Discrimination was not limited to the scenes of queues. Even the coverage of the war was not free from racist talk, which surprised the white man at the center of the war, because the usual is that battles and their tragedies are associated with people from certain countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
It was the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, David Sakfarlidze, when he said in an interview with the network "BBC" He is so moved that he sees people with white skin and blond hair being killed every day.
In the same vein, the channel reporter was met with "CBS" The United States, with widespread anger, when he said, recently, in his comment on the displacements, that Ukraine is a relatively civilized European country, not a place like Iraq and Afghanistan. "So we do not expect such things to happen".
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And a journalist on CNN revealed that his sister, who entered from Ukraine to me PolandRecently, she witnessed the division of the fugitives into two columns; One for whites, and the other for brown-skinned people.
The journalist, Bijan Hosseini, wrote, in a tweet on Twitter, the details of the perilous journey that his sister took, until her safe arrival in Poland.
He added that during the escape trip, his sister suffered racism wounds, severe cold and sleep deprivation, saying that this case is only one of the hundreds of thousands of people who are stuck in Ukraine And today they want to get away from fire of war.
He pointed out that his sister, by adoption, hails from Sierra Leone, and this is what delayed her exit from Ukraine to Poland, after the start of the Russian invasion.
The journalist said that his sister and those with her had to walk ten full hours in a cold temperature, to reach the border of Poland, because the driver told them that he had to return to Kyiv, and at that, they had to get rid of some luggage to ease the burden.
This testimony regarding racist practices, on Ukraine borders With neighboring countries, it is not the first, as those fleeing war have previously spoken of giving greater care to white-skinned people who appear to be European.
Discrimination was not limited to the scenes of queues. Even the coverage of the war was not free from racist talk, which surprised the white man at the center of the war, because the usual is that battles and their tragedies are associated with people from certain countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
And it was the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, David Sakfarlidze, when he said in an interview with the “BBC” network that he was very moved to see white-skinned and blond-haired people being killed every day.
In the same vein, the US CBS correspondent was met with widespread anger, when he said, recently, in his comment on the displacements, that Ukraine is a relatively civilized European country, and not a place like Iraq and Afghanistan, “and therefore we do not expect such things to happen.”