– There are no people who move from their country unless they have a very big reason for that, says Afrah Yusuf, who is the mother of asylum child Shaimaa.
This is her clear message to the government, about one hour after they have announced an compromise solution on asylum children matter at a press conference in Nydalen.
Yusuf talks with BT telephone from Yemen , the leader of the support group, Naciye Ozturk, as an interpreter.
– In Norway, people have to wait very long to get their case examined, and then one might evicted. It is a terrible predicament to get in. I want for the government to understand, she says.
Happy but sad
Yusuf ask first about the government’s announcement means that the family has come home, or simply that the matter is discussed again. She says that she has received with very little of the political controversy in Norway.
– I’m happy but also a little sad, because I think of all the people who have it so hard here. Although I might get to go home, they must be back, says Yusuf.
According to the agreement between the government and cooperation parties shall matters to all asylum children who were sent out after 1 July last year and has been more than four years in Norway, be dealt again. Shaimaa had been seven years in Norway when she was sent out with the family in November. It could mean that Yusuf and the four children she gives her return to the country.
Caution
Naciye Ozturk had contact with Yusuf almost daily in the five months since she was sent to Yemen with their three children. Yusuf was then pregnant, and gave birth recently a little girl. Ozturk leader support group for family, who have worked hard to get Yusuf case resumed. But Ozturk has been careful to give her friend hopes.
– I’ve told things happening here at home, but I’ve been careful with what I have said. I have not wanted to give her false hopes, says Öztürk, who has followed developments in the news closely all day.
– I’ve been quite shaken, she said.
Yusuf says the kids do not know anything about what happened. Tonight dare she still did not drop the joy and hope away.
– I dare not hope. I must be one hundred percent sure.
– When is it?
– When I’m on my way to an airplane. When they say to me that now is the paperwork done, now everything is ready, now you can come back.
Will die
The family now lives on a carpet in a room, along with many other refugees in the city Sana’a. When BT spoke to Yusuf phone Tuesday was Shaimaa mother very influenced by the difficult situation in the war-torn country.
– I had so many wishes. Now I have nothing. Sometimes I just want to die, said Yusuf then.
She also told me that the children had to take sedatives to allay fears. The five months since they left Norway has marked them for life, her mother says.
– It has changed very much. It has taught me not to take anything for granted, and I’ve thought a lot about the future of the children. I have realized that a man must be very strong and very independent.
Good people
All of Norway now know the history of Afrah and Shaimaa, and this has been a big issue that almost toppled government. Many have been involved in their case. What she thinks about it?
– First I want to thank everybody. And then I would say that it has got me to understand that there are many good people in the world.
While we’re talking, it is quiet in Sana’a, she says. The power is gone, and the room where they live is refugees densely asleep. She will wait a while before she tells the children that they might come back.
– Before I know things for sure, I will not give them great hopes, says Yusuf.
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