Ref: Kalau orang beduin didiskriminasi, lantas bagaimana dengan 100,000 pekerja (warganegara) NKRI yang berada di Kuwiat diperlakukan?
http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2012/10/07/bedooons-who-made-them/ Bedooons: Who made them? Muna Al-Fuzai I am a Kuwaiti, born in the mid-sixties. All my life I have lived among fellow Kuwaitis and all kind of expats. The expats I knew were aware of their roots and the kind of citizenship they held. They knew where they came from, all the way up to their grand-grand fathers. This talk about bedoons is something new to me and my Kuwaiti circle. In fact, this term seems strange and unacceptable to many Kuwaitis because they feel that one is either a Kuwaiti or not. Nevertheless, the Kuwaiti government has turned a blind eye towards the issue, neither solving it nor ending it and leaving it to heal with time. The bedoons, too, are human beings and they claim to be Kuwaitis and want their rights just as any other ordinary citizen. This issue will not get solved on its own. It is not a trifling love tale, but a serious issue and putting it off will not help anyone, certainly not anymore. Who in the Kuwaiti government is not aware of this reality? For many years, the Kuwaiti government has not paid enough attention to this issue and we are now reaping the harvest of such a stance. The bedoons are protesting virtually every week, claiming they are being abused, not able to work or support their families. Their list of complaints is long and all they expect from the Kuwaiti government is to grant citizenship to those who deserve it and deport the others who don’t. Those against whom the Kuwaiti government claims to have enough proof should be kicked out of the country immediately without any sense of shame or hesitation. Does it behove us to see our security forces using force against the protesters, sending a message to the rest of the world that we Kuwaitis are abusing human beings? Why are we trying to attract such an allegation? I think every Kuwaiti must contribute his mite via Twitter to put pressure on the Kuwaiti government to do something about these daily protests. I know that the Kuwaiti government will say it was doing its best. Well, in that case, the best is not good enough since nothing is happening on the ground. I think when an issue reaches a stage where it turns into an issue of security and safety, then it becomes too serious to be stopped simply by choosing to remain silent and calls for serious efforts to resolve it. The Kuwaiti citizens have not created this problem and they must not ignore it simply because we have no personal interest in it. We have. The Bedouins live in our country and deserve our attention. By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
