The government ignores the stranded in India, one of them threatens to kill himself and the embassy summons the police
English - Monday 15 June 2020 الساعة 12:11 pm
Mumbai, Newsyemen, Private:
An official decision to close airports and implementation of quarantine across India began in the 18th and hence the catastrophe began for hundreds of stranded Yemenis who visited India for the purpose of treatment.
One of the stranded people says, dozens of families have reached a low standard of living and no longer have enough for surviving, while they are threatened with eviction from housing, which has made many people donate what they can to help these families and enable them to purchase food and pay the accumulated rents for apartment owners.
He adds: "But this donation can’t last for long, because most of the stranded if not all of them no longer have their needs."
He pointed out that one of the stranded had reached the point of threatening to burn himself because of the living conditions and psychological conditions that he reached.
What made the suffering of the Yemeni people stuck in India worse, is the legitimate government ignoring them, and the endeavor to send a plane to a city other than the one they are in, which means that the plane will return empty because the stranded people are not allowed to move from one city to another.
For more than three months since the start of the quarantine, the stranded have published statements and appeals to the government, but to no avail, at a time when many countries have sent their aircraft to transport their stranded after the third week of the quarantine.
The last protest for the stranded, was on Friday, carried out in front of the Yemeni embassy in India, but the stranded in a letter to "Newsyemen " expressed their deep regret at what they called "the ambassador's summoning of the police to disperse the protesters or arrest them."
They added, in the letter, that they received profanity from the ambassador himself as he was leaving the embassy building instead of reassuring them and sitting with them to calm them down and search for solutions that would bring them back to the homeland.
