Are They Different?

Crash, boom, bang! Everything collapsed in former Yugoslavia three

years ago. All the values and beliefs were smashed by the violence and

cruelty of a few people who could not keep their hatred inside of them

any longer. In the ruins of communism, a big fire arose with no hope to

stop it. Families were torn apart. Innocent people were dying, women

were being abused, children were losing their childhood. Toys were

replaced by guns. There was no tomorrow, no future for them.

Can we blame the people who managed to escape from that hell?

Thousands of them fled the country. They are among us, despite our

ignorance. Yes, they are out there in the streets looking for our help, but

we can not see them. We are surrounded with too many prejudices

against all kinds of immigrants and illegal aliens to be able to see that

they are also humans. How much more humans with the pain that they

brought on their shoulders with them.

How do we look at these people? Why do we think they are different?

Do we know them well enough to judge them? No, we do not. None of

us know what they had to go through to survive. And yet, we judge

them, but we have no right to make prejudices against them. They want

to breathe, work, love and enjoy their lives as much as we do. As a whole,

they are just like us and yet they are different because fate had played an

unfair game with them and they learned the real meaning of the word

peace. They realized how precious peace was. They can really understand

the motto .Peace forever.. We can not because we have never lost it. We

should learn from these widows and orphans instead of condemning

them and throwing them into one big sack together with Yugoslavian

and Russian Mafia. Not every Yugoslavian is a smuggler or a drug dealer.

Not everyone of them owns BMW, carries a gun and plays .the big game

of life.. There are many desperate refugees trying to find their new

homes in our country. Let's give them a chance before we yell at them,

.Go back where you came from you stinky scum.bag!. Let's try to walk

in their shoes before we condemn them. They are not worse beings than

we are. They are not different and they do deserve our help.

A few months ago two policemen were shot dead by a couple of

Belarussians. It was a very tragic event. No wonder, it upheld another

wave of anger against all the immigrants. It is too bad we can not

distinguish good from evil. There are many more immigrants who are

living